Desire

• Explains how the primal energy generated by physical desire can be used to achieve enlightenment

• Reveals the techniques used by Tantric adepts to attain mastery over breath, thought, and all physical processes

Nothing can match the explosive energy created in the body by pure desire. For millennia, Tantric adepts have harnessed this force as a means of attaining the summits of the mystical life. The energies fueled by passion are used to nourish the inner flame that burns away the egotistical perception of the mind.

Desire explores the subtle techniques of Tantra that enable the seeker to attain the triple mastery of the breath, thought, and the natural processes of the body. Tantrics believe that the body is the temple and divinity lies at its heart. In order to arrive at profound awareness, the body needs to be perfectly tuned and working toward a state of perfect fluidity. Desire reveals many of the secret practices intended for this purpose that have been passed down in the major Tantric treatises such as the Vijnanabhariva Tantra and Ch'an master Chinul's treatise on the Secrets of Cultivating the Mind, including the important techniques of the ritual sexual observances known as Maithuna.

<p><b>Desire</b> <br /><i>The Tantric Path to Awakening</i> </p><p>1. The Quest: Hedonistic or Spiritual? <br />2. A Third Path <br />3. Nostalgia for Unity <br />4. The Power of Woman <br />5. We Are What We Seek <br />6. Breath: Door of Our Sensorality <br />7. Experiencing Totality: First Experience? <br />8. Touching the World <br />9. The Heart of Reality <br />10. The Source of Consciousness <br />11. Savoring the World <br />12. Desire and Its Object <br />13. The Supreme Reality <br />14. Naked Awareness <br />15. Sounds of Life <br />16. The Essence of Satisfaction <br />17. Sensorality and Consciousness <br />18. The Interaction of the Eight Consciousnesses <br />19. The Power of the Senses <br />20. A Question: Freeing Oneself from the Past <br />21. Scents of the World <br />22. Tuning the Body-Instrument to Absolute Love <br />23. Questions: Love, Sexuality, Fidelity <br />24. Chants of the <i>Dakinis</i>, the Great Secret <br />25. Looking at the World <br />26. Passion <br />27. Questions: Passion, Ego, Freedom <br />28. Entrance into the Kingdom of Reality, Cosmic Sensuality <br />29. The Sexual Ritual, <i>Maithuna</i>, and the Path of the Left Hand <br />30. The Tantric Orgasm for Women <br />31. The Tantric Orgasm for Men <br />32. The Group Sexual Ritual <br />33. A Tantric Path for the West <br />34. Questions: Sexuality, Desire, Passions, Yoga, Ecstasy, Love, Joy, Pleasure, Space, Beauty, the Heart's Peace <br /><i>Notes <br />Index</i></p>