But this is dangerous for society. That is why Tantra was suppressed. This is dangerous! Nothing is immoral, nothing is moral; nothing is pure, nothing is impure. Things are as they are. A real tantrika will not say that a thief is bad; he will say that he is a thief; that is all. And by using the word thief there is no condemnation in his mind. Th

you no longer need the Word or host. They might offer some symbolic help to your enclosed, buffered self and therefore be worth partaking in, but they have no direct independent ontological force to transform your being. You are buffered from such things. You can now actually take a more radical step to assume, deep within the buffered self, that t

the necessity, when searching for truth, not only of seeing God in all beings, situations, and manifestations, but of seeing all beings in God. The example demands we see through concepts of mind, not making one thing more “holy” than another (our concept of God, for example) or making something of lesser value (the excrement). This is the same as

Icons are something like sacraments in materiality: they participate in what they represent and communicate the sacredness to the believer.