The Bliss of Being

The average person breathes about 18 breaths/minute – taps us into flesh or skin level, and interpersonal consciousness. Based on ego or “I” principle; 25,920 breaths in 24 hours (equivalent to the sun going through the 12 zodiac signs every 25,920 years, which equals a “Great Year”).

Nine breaths/minute – concentration, focus increases dramatically. Memory becomes greater. Taps us into the interpersonal consciousness (after 12 minutes, you can tap into muscles and tissue and see what is occurring with these properties in the body).

7.5 breaths/minute – photographic memory, and access the Akashik records (after 24 minutes, you can tap into your hormones, your chemical makeup, your blood, your DNA, and begin to make corrections on a cellular level).

6 breaths/minute – tap into the deeper aspects of the subconscious level (after 36 minutes, you can begin to change habits on a physical and emotional level, and make corrections to your soul’s makeup, behaviors and thoughts).

4.5 breaths/minute – tap into super-consciousness (pituitary gland becomes fully activated, which produces Human Growth Hormones – helps make dramatic changes in the body, such as regenerating tissue).

3 breaths/minute – pineal gland is fully activated, tap into magnetic consciousness, able to attract and draw things to you, no disease can exist in your body (inhale for count of ten, exhale for count of ten). After 60 minutes, you can begin to draw all things unto you (this was left out of “The Secret”).

1 breath/minute – infinite consciousness – tap into a union with the higher self or over-soul. Activation of the black monad – the God force or Kundilini energy is awakened. Christ consciousness, third eye, enlightenment, Nirvana. At 72 minutes, you are able to extend your life for hundreds of years, tap into ability to correct behaviors/actions/deeds within one life, so you may then incarnate into higher dimensions.

I would like to talk about this podcast I just heard over at expanded love making, a podcast/blog about tantra.

This episode interviews this guy named Moses Ma, who calls himself a “neo-Taoist” among other things. Here are some quotes I thought were worth mentioning:

“I had to break up with her. And when she told me that, I had been meditating for so long that I actually could see my own inner body inside reaching for the sadness switch. I realized that everything she said to me were just words, they were just vibrations, and I was actually causing the emotional reaction. And for an experiment I decided, hey lets just not turn on that switch. and that switch has been off for the last 20 years. Every moment is filled with wonder and bliss and joy. and as long as the hormones are balanced and we do basic physical exercises and we are not in physical pain, a feeling of completion of the beauty of life is there.”

“Energy for transformation starts with sexualty”

“Enlightment is a verb”

“Neo-Tantra, Neo-Taoism Neo-[everything], is looking through the filter of what is real. and seeing the complete reality of religion, and taking away what doesn’t work and keeping what does work.”

“We are moving away from an era of spiritual materialism to an era of true spirituality.”

“Sexuality is so addictive that we can fool ourselves into thinking that this is a form of spiritually when we are in fact actually dissipating ourselves. So if we can do both [i.e.], let go and be in pleasure or let go and be completely celibate and be happy there, that is the key”

The formula he gave to determine how many days a male should wait before next ejaculation: (MansAge/10)^2. For example 20/10 = 2^2 = 4 days that a 20 year old should wait before ejaculating again.

Then he quickly mentions that “…its not important to be religious about it. its not one or the other with ejaculation.”

“What you want to do is transcend your thought patterns about tantra and find what really works for you.”

I like his visionary remarks at the end, Ma wants to “fuze spirituality and technology” with his tantra-tv.com startup.

Ma sees a “spiritualization of the internet” coming within the next 5 years.

He wraps things up with a good saying on Tantra in general:
“The core of Tantra is really about tools for communication and connection, tools for opening all of your chackras”

The interviewer makes a funny remark here: “What is it going to be like to have a generation of enlightened people that aren’t from China or Tibet? What is it going to be like to have a generation of Tartra masters that are from california and are eating raw food…”

“Don’t be one dimensional with spirituality. It includes everything, emotions, sex, intellect, [lets] get there in a comprehensive way.”

I agree. Overall pretty good. This podcast is part of a larger wealth of information.

So lets talk a bit about Tantra.

You would think that I would have a little bit to say about Tantra considering that I have been living with a Tantra teacher for the past couple months, but, alas, I don’t. Tantra is a bit hard to talk about because its so experiential. I could talk about Buddhism, say, all day, but I can really only SAY a couple words on Tantra. In my experience Tantra is actually pretty easy to understand intellectually once we get our definitions right. So lets begin.

What does the word Tantra even mean? Well in the west the word has become to mean something slightly different than in the east. The word “Tantra” is still becoming here in the west. As it stands I think most westerners view Tantra as some sort of sexual practice, but in reality sexual practice is only one part of a larger spiritual practice that is included in Tantra. Yet when people talk about Tantra they usually refer to its sexual practice. I think that Tantra, in the west, is starting to mean all spiritual techniques that involve sexuality, be them Hindu in origin or Chinese Taoist. So, lets talk about that.

What started me on the whole Tantra Scene was this book called the Multi Orgasmic Man that just happened to be laying around the house one day (as all good books do). So I picked it up and realized that sex could be, and is, a spiritual practice. This book highlights some of the Taoist techniques for what Montak calls, sexual kung-fu.

What stuck me first about this book was its pragmatic system for achieving orgasms without ejaculating. This is a really important part in both traditions, i.e. ejaculation control. Tantra is about experiencing greater and greater waves of bliss. Like most spiritual traditions Tantra is tightly linked to our thoughts, to the mind/body interaction. Ultimately our only limitation is our beliefs. The sexual techniques of Tantra allow us to break down deeply rooted hegemonic beliefs, like you have to ejaculate to orgasm, its just not true.

Western science even admits that there is a clear link between orgasm and ejaculation, the key is that they do not necessarily have to be tied together; you can have one without the other.

Well… how?

That is a good question and one I will leave to a later post. In the mean time check these books out:

Multi Orgasmic Couple

Tantra

Multi Orgasmic Woman