Tantra: From Consciousness to Symbiosis

Whenever we hear the term Tantra, or even research it in the vast world of the internet, the reference given to us for such a search always portrays a cosmic couple in sacred union, a pair of lovers in perfect sexual/loving union, or even complementary gods that lead to the thought that Tantra itself portrays a work that will put you in a perfect union with your partner, and especially if this union is of an affective/sexual nature.

This affects and affects people's imagination and mainly makes them believe that there are techniques that can resolve their affective/sexual relationships almost like magic in two or three “KamaSutricas” positions. But (un)fortunately that's not exactly what happens, that perfect relational dream without work doesn't happen.

But here there is a little hope if it brings you another vast insight into what research or unsophisticated popular knowledge can show as accurate when this scenario is portrayed. By showing a cosmic couple in perfect and sacred union when we research Tantra, this image can be understood as the perfect union of opposites that inhabit us.

We are children of a father and a mother. Biologically, so that there is the birth of a child, there is a union of two poles and this here does not necessarily talk about a family format, but, finally, in the biological union so that there is a child. As biological children of a father and a mother, we have both energies in our genetic and energetic makeup. Yin and Yang, mother and father, female and male, we are the result of this union, the most holy Trinity.

This portrait where we see a stable couple, concerns the union of complementary opposites in us, but as Tantra is not even seen as a behavioral philosophy it can be understood as such, but by a dozen techniques that will access the potential for harmony in relationships with our peers. Since our pair in the first place is ourselves, but we are used to looking and looking outside, always from the outside, exactly the vision that the West ends up propagating about Tantra itself.

Tantra, as we are actually taught by more correct traditional and dynamic schools of access to this energy, speaks about a search above all solitary. It corresponds to the image of a Yogi meditating alone on a mountain or inside a cave, feeling his entire inner universe. The techniques are passed so that there is autonomy to maneuver and express your sexual energy, which is your vital energy, your pulse of life, and so that you are in tune with yourself and in symbiosis with all the environment that surrounds you.

The so desired and dreamed union with your partner is illusory if there is no marriage and union with those who dwell within you. We are unreachable beings and trying to cover up our holes with others makes us a great vacuum cleaner, a black hole always in search of what doesn't satisfy us, the search for the other that overflows us. Looking at our faults, we have greater truth with us and we know what the other can never give us, because this part doesn't really lack, much less fills us.

Tantra as a philosophy will free you from the shackles that your conditioning steals time from in seeking perfection that does not exist, but in maneuvering fragments of yourself so that there is integrity and so in turn, you awaken the most vulnerable, conscious and autonomous being to live in any scenario already seen in which your performance requires, interspersed with the environment as the very product of nature that you are.