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1. WiiFitnessModels.com Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 11:51 pm

   The later hindu or buddhist scriptures dealing especially with techniques and rituals including meditative and sexual practices.
   The later hindu or buddhist scriptures dealing especially with techniques and sexual practices.
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2. WiiFitness Models Says:
   March 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 am

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   Tantra is an accumulation of practices and ideas which has among its characteristics the use of ritual, energy work, cultic rites of passage, the use of the mundane to access the supramundane and the identification of the microcosm with the macrocosm.[5] The Tantric practitioner seeks to use the divine power that flows through the universe (including their own body) to attain purposeful goals. These goals may be spiritual, material or both.[6]

   A practitioner of tantra considers mystical experience or the guidance of a Guru imperative.[7] In the process of working with energy the Tantric has various tools at their disposal. These include yoga—to actuate processes that will yoke the practitioner to the divine. Also important are the use of visualizations of the deity and verbalisation or evocation through mantras—which may be construed as seeing and singing the power into being; identification and internalisation of the divine is enacted—often through a total identification with a deity, such that the aspirant “becomes” the deity [8], the Ishta-Devata.
   The method

   The Tantric method is to sublimate rather than negate relative reality. This method of sublimation consists of three phases: purification, elevation and the “reaffirmation of identity on the plane of pure consciousness.”[18]

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   Ritual practices

   Statue of the Tantric goddess Kali from Dakshineswar, West Bengal, India; along with her Yantra.

   Because of the wide range of communities covered by the term tantra, it is challenging and problematic to describe tantric practices definitively. Avalon (1918) does provide a useful dichotomy of the “Ordinary Ritual” [19] and the “Secret Ritual” [20].

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   Ordinary ritual

   Because of the wide range of communities covered by the term tantra, it is challenging and problematic to describe tantric practices of the ordinary rituals definitively. The ordinary ritual or puja may include any of the following elements:

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   Mantra and yantra

   As in other Hindu and Buddhist yoga traditions, mantra and yantra play an important part in Tantra. The mantras and yantras as instruments, invoke specific Hindu deities such as Shiva and Kali. Similarly, puja may involve focusing on a yantra or mandala associated with a deity.[21]

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   Identification with deities

   Tantra, being a development of early Hindu~Vedic thought, embraced the Hindu gods and goddesses, especially Shiva and Shakti, along with the Advaita philosophy that each represents an aspect of the ultimate Para Shiva, or Brahman. These deities may be worshipped externally with flowers, incense, and other offerings; but, more importantly, are engaged as attributes of Ishta Devata meditations, the practitioners either visualizing themselves as the deity or experiencing the darshan (vision) of the deity.

   Secret ritual

   Secret ritual may include any or all of the elements of ordinary ritual either directly or substituted along with other sensate rites and themes such as a feast (food, sustenance), coitus (sexuality, procreation), charnel grounds (death, transition) and defecation, urination and vomiting (waste, renewal, fecundity).

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