Just a bit of info I gather from different places here.
The Difference Between Tantra and Neo-Tantra
Today’s modern neo-tantra exists alongside the classical tantra practices that remain.
Let’s make the distinction between them clear.
Neo-Tantra:
The goal— Improving sexual performance and practicing sexuality in a conscious, spiritual way. It can involve practices beyond the sexual act. These include eye gazing, mindfulness, breath, yoga, and even some classical tantra techniques.
Classical Tantra:
The goal— Working with the subtle body to make kundalini travel up through the chakras to realize our true essence. It can include sexual energy and intercourse with a partner. But that is rare and reserved for the advanced, spiritually mature practitioners.
Tantric Paths: Left-Hand and Right-Hand Tantra
Tantric teachings take one of these two main approaches. We call them left-hand and right-hand paths.
Right-Hand Tantra: This is the subtler, gentler path. It teaches refined techniques like visualization and inner meditative work. The right-hand practice is closer to the path in Yoga that pursues transcendence. You could say it’s more ascetic.
Left-Hand Tantra: This is the extreme, fierce, and transgressive path. It uses methods that are taboo in our culture, like sexual practices and substances. It’s a radical method for reaching enlightenment.
Despite their different approaches, they share the goal of liberation through embodiment. They are both classical tantra.
Tibet has kept the sexual aspects of tantra better than India.
The Decline of Left-Hand Tantra
Through the study of historians, we can look into a very different era of Indian society and culture. In ancient times, when tantra flourished, India had a more liberal view of sexuality than now.
Today, India is one of the most sexually repressed countries in the world. Curious why? Watch the Netflix documentary series Christiane Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World.
What’s the reason for this big cultural shift? Simple— the invasions and colonization by the Muslim and, later, the British Empire.
Both colonial powers brought along their conservative religions and morals. These were full of ideas such as ‘sex is sinful’. Through this external influence, Indian culture became puritanical and ascetic.
The right-hand path says tantra is all about meditation and visualization. It doesn’t include dangerous, taboo methods. For that reason, it survived this inquisition and persecution of sexual practices. But the more ‘extreme’ and scandalous left-hand tantra disappeared almost entirely.
In China you have the other schools, the TAO.
According to Taoism, we need to feel aroused, to feel the life-giving force of sexual energy, every day, because when we
feel aroused, our bodies produce more sexual hormones, which in Taoism were considered the fountain of youth.
At the end of the day, no matter which school you follow, is all about energy, awakening, and learn to move that energy around your body.
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