Tantra 7 - Charity and Liberating Activities

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> People hung up on materialism who think tantra is about sex will not find

> that tantra is really about liberating activity. Sure sex is liberating,

in

> many ways, and I support experimentation for pleasure and self descovery.

> (But don't claim me for your moral arbiter). But tantra is really about

> liberating onself and all beings into nirvana or the unsurpasable peace of

> perfect clarity.

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> How can one liberate themselves and others in activity? So often we also

> think only meditation liberates, but what kinds of actions also liberate?

> Well, the principle is always the same, one lets something go with full

> awareness and it dissolves back into the primordial essence. This occurs

> during shamatha and vipassana type meditation, with the result that energy

> which normally would be going into new and more activities instead is

> liberated directly back to the source enhancing the experience of samadhi.

> In activity it occurs through charity.

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> Liberation occurs through charity or shouldering the burden of others, and

> also taking the burden into pure awareness of samadhi. This dissolves the

> dualistic nature of samskara into unified awareness and creates bliss for

> oneself and others. In the Vedas this is called the divodasha or giving

> goods to the Brahman priests for a service. Others put money in the passed

> hat or outright create their own charities. Bill Gates and Wife are

setting

> aside $31,000,000 for new educational institutions in the US. Some people

> volunteer, and many other forms of liberating action. All these actions

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> simply the release of tension, and of samskara. That is to say that while

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> put this concept simply it still is a very profound and important thing to

> do.

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> Charitable action sealed with pure awareness is a cosmic force for

> liberation which is the basic evolutionary force that the human has at

their

> disposal. All other actions, though good, bad, or neutral, still remain

in

> the realm of samskara or perpetual duality. Only actions of sacrifice

> dissolve samskara and liberate. Try giving something away and sealing it

> with silence within. No hope for return, no fear of waste. All those

> stresses attached to that thing will instantly also be dissolved.

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> I don't suggest giving all ones goods and clothes away, but I do suggest

> making charity with pure motives a force in your life. This is the real

> meaning of tantra beyond all others. Tantra means extension or to make

> continuous the blessings of the path of nirvana. By conducting oneself in

> this manner for the sake of others one extends their own awareness to the

> cosmic front and retains the cosmic within. By being selfish one remains

in

> atavism and cannot get free.

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> It's simple really.

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