Tantra for the West: A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams
A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams

What does tantra have to do with your relationships, work, money, creativity, sex, food and drink, being alone, meditation and yoga, aging and healing, politics, freedom, and enlightenment? Everything!

Tantra is usually thought of as sex with some kind of mysticism thrown in. Marc Allen goes back to the original meaning of tantra and shows how it can be applied to every moment of your life, excluding nothing. Within your way of life, within your everyday thoughts and feelings, are the keys to love, freedom, and fulfillment. As soon as you can see this, you’ll find yourself on a direct path to realizing the life of your dreams.

This highly acclaimed book has inspired readers all over the world for over thirty years, and is now completely revised, with new material added. It gives you simple keys and practical tools that can be wildly, creatively adapted to your individual needs. If you spend even a brief amount of time with this book, you will discover for yourself the transformative power of tantra.
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Tantra for the West: A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams
A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams

What does tantra have to do with your relationships, work, money, creativity, sex, food and drink, being alone, meditation and yoga, aging and healing, politics, freedom, and enlightenment? Everything!

Tantra is usually thought of as sex with some kind of mysticism thrown in. Marc Allen goes back to the original meaning of tantra and shows how it can be applied to every moment of your life, excluding nothing. Within your way of life, within your everyday thoughts and feelings, are the keys to love, freedom, and fulfillment. As soon as you can see this, you’ll find yourself on a direct path to realizing the life of your dreams.

This highly acclaimed book has inspired readers all over the world for over thirty years, and is now completely revised, with new material added. It gives you simple keys and practical tools that can be wildly, creatively adapted to your individual needs. If you spend even a brief amount of time with this book, you will discover for yourself the transformative power of tantra.
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Tantra for the West: A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams

Tantra for the West: A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams

Tantra for the West: A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams

Tantra for the West: A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams

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A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams

What does tantra have to do with your relationships, work, money, creativity, sex, food and drink, being alone, meditation and yoga, aging and healing, politics, freedom, and enlightenment? Everything!

Tantra is usually thought of as sex with some kind of mysticism thrown in. Marc Allen goes back to the original meaning of tantra and shows how it can be applied to every moment of your life, excluding nothing. Within your way of life, within your everyday thoughts and feelings, are the keys to love, freedom, and fulfillment. As soon as you can see this, you’ll find yourself on a direct path to realizing the life of your dreams.

This highly acclaimed book has inspired readers all over the world for over thirty years, and is now completely revised, with new material added. It gives you simple keys and practical tools that can be wildly, creatively adapted to your individual needs. If you spend even a brief amount of time with this book, you will discover for yourself the transformative power of tantra.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608683420
Publisher: New World Library
Publication date: 06/09/2015
Edition description: Revised Edition
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Marc Allen is an internationally renowned author and speaker who studied Tantric Buddhism with a Tibetan teacher at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California. He is the author of several important books and cofounder and publisher of New World Library, one of the most successful independent publishers in the United States. He lives in Northern California.

Table of Contents

Foreword Shakti Gawain 13

Preface to the Revised Edition 17

Introduction 21

1 The Direct Path of Tantra 23

The Brilliant Concept of Tantra 25

Three Different Paths 27

Confronting Negative Feelings 30

A Tantric Practice 34

A Message to Myself 37

2 The Power of Affirmations 39

The Act of Creation 42

The Power of Your Words 44

How to Do Affirmations 45

Affirmations in Meditation 47

Writing Affirmations 50

A common error 55

Have Patience 56

The Law of Karma 59

Easily and Effortlessly 60

3 Relationships 63

Tantric Relationships 64

What Do You Want? 65

Create It Within 66

The Outer World: Partnership and Communication 69

Negotiation 72

Dealing with Conflict 73

Jealousy, Fear, and Anger 79

A Key to Fulfilling Relationships 81

4 Sex 83

Some Questions for You to Answer 84

Trust Yourself! 85

Sexual Energy 86

Tantric Sex 89

One Beautiful Way to Make Love 90

Sustaining Sexual Energy 92

Making Love 94

A Meditation for Lovemaking 98

A Life-Changing Practice 100

5 Being Alone 101

Self-Examination 102

The Self-Questioning Process 102

A Meditation on Being Alone 103

Listen Your Way to Enlightenment 105

You Don't Need a Lover to Be in Love 105

6 Work 107

Look at Your Beliefs 107

Your Highest Purpose 110

Your Ideal Scene 110

A Meditation to Create the Perfect Work for You 113

Enjoy Your Work! 117

7 Money 119

Let Go of Limiting Beliefs 122

A Creative Meditation for Money 125

Creating Abundance 127

The 10 Percent Plan 128

To Sum It Up 130

8 Creativity 131

Unlocking Your Creative Genius 133

Dealing with the Inner Critic 135

Fear of Failure 137

A Ten-Minute Practice 139

A Tantric Musician 140

A Meditation for Opening Up Creativity 141

Some Great Advice 143

9 Food and Drink 145

A Tantric Experiment 147

You Are Not What You Eat 148

A Meditation 149

10 Meditation and Yoga 151

The Benefits 151

The Pitfalls 154

Meditation 155

Silence 156

The Active Forms of Meditation 158

Pillar of Light 159

Opening Up Your Energy Centers 164

Creative Meditation 170

Meditations on Our Three Bodies 174

Be with Yourself 182

Closing the Gates 183

Mantras 185

Yoga and Tantra 187

Hatha Yoga 188

Kum Nye 189

Free-Form Yoga 191

The Way Is Infinite 193

11 Aging and Healing 195

A Youthful Observation 195

The Aging Process 196

Think Yourself Thin 197

A Powerful Practice 200

Create a Healthy, Beautiful Body 201

Nurture All Your States of Being 206

The Principles of Healing 207

Keep Growing 210

12 Politics 211

The Land of the Free 213

Your Personal Power 216

The Deep Meaning of Karma 217

Politics in a New Age 220

13 Enlightenment 223

The Bottom Line 224

14 Daily Life 227

Our Life and Our Life Situation 229

15 Freedom 231

A Final Practice: An Essential Key 232

Shattering Models 235

You're Free If You Affirm Yourself to Be 236

16 Reflections 239

Addendum. Tantra in the East: A Brief History of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism 257

Acknowledgments and Notes 283

Suggested Reading 289

About the Author 293

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