Is Tantra Science?
What is Tantra?
posted by Must Nishok
Contact with Tantra makes possible a kind of wisdom that is not the usual rational and logical knowledge, as we know it. Saint Augustine said:
"If nobody asks what God is, I know; but if you ask me, I don't know anymore."
Tantra does not use spoken language, but silence, the inaudible, the perceptible. The individual is led to live fully, fully, his sensitivity and his intuition, in an integrated way, without seeking as an escape route the mental chatter, verbiage, conjectures and mental explanations, characteristics of the scientific debate.
Tantra is recognized by many as a behavioral science, but its bases are completely different from official science. The subjectivity of Tantra is not motivated to seek the laws that govern the material universe, nor even to understand them. Cartesian models allow us to weigh, measure, evaluate, label and equate, while Tantra is interested in living, in enjoying, in transcending, in being happy.
How could Tantra be a science? Its foundations are sensory and cannot be expressed in words, as they contain many symbolic meanings. Whoever experiences it knows, but if you have to explain, then you will not know more.
The paradox is that whoever experiences Tantra, manages to achieve knowledge, however simple a person may be, finds a wisdom of words, expressions, contagious contentment.
Tantra is the new science, the new knowledge, a new way of observing, the results of which bring about a significant change in personal paradigms.
Contact with Tantra is deeply transforming, in a way that humanity has never known.
Tantra is conscious sensitivity and new cognitive paths.