The Profound Activity of Questioning

By Eric Baret

Asking a question is being the most active you can be. It means being humble. Humility is the most active attitude.

Tandava the Cosmic Dance

By Daniel Odier

Tandava means totality. It means the path is absolutely non-dual, because we integrate everything and we don't refuse any aspect of the human being

Let the Moon Be Free – Conversations on Kashmiri Tantra

By Eric Baret

Shaped and sustained by the nondual tradition of Kashmir Shivaism, Eric Baret’s words take us back to the simple observation of our felt sense of emotion and, ultimately, to pure listening.

Yoga is a Celebration of Life

With Éric Baret

Eric Baret points out that there are no sculptures of yogic asanas in Indian temples before the modern era. He describes today’s yoga as a commercial project...

Exhausting the Mind

By Jean Klein

Question: When we say that we must come to the end of the mind, that we must exhaust the mind, is it a necessary process, something which must happen, or is it possible to have an insight without the mind being exhausted?

What is Truth?

By Éric Baret

Seeking is an expression of truth, it’s not a way. Abhinavagupta, in the Tantraloka, is very clear; all the yoga practices are an expression of truth. Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.

What is Tantra?

By Éric Baret

For me it is irrelevant, but let’s say for the Kashmirian tradition, as far as my teacher expressed…

Intimate Relationship as a Spiritual Crucible

By John Welwood

Living with someone we love, with all the joys and challenges, is one of the best ways…

Sadness Without an Object

By Eric Baret

Sadness is one of the deepest emotions and it must be kept without an object.

The Divine Mother Durga

By Laura Amazzone and M.A.

Durga is a Goddess of Strength and Justice who brings compassion, peace, calm and order to the chaos, destruction and conflict in any situation.

When Is Sex a Spiritual Practice?

By Deborah Anapol

Recognizing that our bodies and our sexuality are sacred is a good way to begin undoing the split between sex and spirit...

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part III)

By Maria Syldona

As the process of manifestation (involution of Ultimate Reality into becoming the physical Universe) begins, the tattvas (principles, states of consciousness) that logically appear first are those of what is called the Pure Creation and pure knowledge.

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part II)

By Maria Syldona

An extraordinary and profound personal experience illustrates the tenet that the Model of Manifestation describes both the Universe – and a human being.

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part I)

By Maria Syldona

Kashmir Shaivism encompasses a vast territory of wisdom and knowledge about the universe and a human…

Tantra and the West

By Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Tantra in the Western imagination stands for exotic and orgasmic rituals coming from India and Tibet that blend sex and meditation.

The Ego Cannot Love

By Eric Baret

Love, we can’t talk about because it is what is. It isn’t an objective experience, it’s what is here at every moment, except when I pretend to love or when I want to be loved.

Lovemaking and Altered States of Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

People have tried many ways to alter their consciousness — meditation, psychedelic mushrooms, LSD, rituals…

The Pathless Path

By Stephen Bodian & Jean Klein

Stephen Bodian interviews Jean Klein

The Tantric Gift of Math’s Mystery

By Jeanric Meller

Is math an invention of the human brain? Or does math exist in some abstract world, with humans merely discovering its truths? The debate has been raging since the time of the ancient Greeks.

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