I SEE YOU ... AND DO YOU SEE ME?
posted by Sasha - TANTRA EARTH
Something very magical, almost dreamlike for those who open themselves up to the teachings and practices of Tantra is the keen perception of themselves, the other and everything that can surround you. It is an opening as incredible as it is divine, to perceive what was already around you, right before our noses.
“I see you.”, This phrase is the maxim of a very famous film in 2009, Avatar, whose name brings the meaning of the bodily manifestation of a super powerful being, by the Hindu religion. He is a supreme, immortal and great being that is beyond his state of physicality, but that manifests through him. It is the whole that can be, it is beyond its carnal boundary, everything dwells there and is visible beyond what the eye can touch.
The Tantra path as an initiation starts from a very different perception from the other paths without canceling out whatever your experience, essence and surroundings are. Everything that you can be, you already are, you already have it and you are already on your way. The time itself and the tools that call you to work make the catharsis so that you become what you already are.
But it is not always a comfortable path. It demands comfort and confrontation, encounter and mismatch, charm and disenchantment and lots of singing. I really sing, in rhythm and voice, so that his truth is expressed in his speech and beyond, that his attitude and his way of living in sync and harmony are one way.
Although he does not deny you anything you are, what you want, have or want to have, he will make you weigh in the balance of your life every memory, every attachment, every love, every disgust, each addiction, each belonging, each time "won" or "lost" as a great teacher, never executioner. This position is usually ours with us, when we increasingly unveil our own path in shaking the carriage as we go on.
Seeing and seeing someone for real is something that is beyond the physical eyes, but within reach of many eyes that the body has and can develop. The touch, the whole extension of the skin, the ears, the emotions, the smells, the taste, the insights, all are eyes. When we break a physical pattern, like looking with our eyes, we stop seeing the superficiality that condensed energy, matter, can offer, and we dive into a deep, almost abyssal universe, between what we think and what we see with eyes .
When we receive and let life play its part while doing our own work, we leave these columns that support a small universe and enter a much larger universe, below the earth, beyond the visual, the judgment, the shallow waters.
For Tantra, the greatest of senses is touch, and the organ of pleasure and receptivity in all work is the skin. Through a “doctrine” we learn to see in the background what everything can be, in addition to how it is in shape or space / time, without canceling the path itself.
For Tantra the separation between spirit and matter is non-existent, after all, we cannot be one without the other. You are not always as you are, you are not your surface, you are not your character in matter. You are beyond, in a junction of bodies as subtle and as immense as a universe that operates so that everything develops and supports itself in your own organism, be it your own body or the whole universe.
To see someone in the eyes of Tantra, close your eyes, and feel, feel yourself first, know what you have and what you are, then feel the other with all the ability to become him, feel him, learn it, develops it, welcomes it. For Tantra, unity is the maximum scale, being able to make you feel in your skin everything that is inside you, until you make your way back home and dissolve in yourself, to the point of becoming everything what inhabits it, inside and outside.