Prema Tantra

08/29/2025

Nourishing our hearts in difficult times

04/23/2025

11/28/2024

07/15/2024

in Ta**ra we explore all kinds of love, including spiritual intimacy with our own soul.

06/26/2024

Without trust, there is nothing

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03/23/2024

How do you define intimacy?

03/13/2024

Without honesty there is no trust, without trust, there is nothing

02/22/2024

Where it serves best interest, be williing to get uncomfortable.

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01/29/2024

I often hear Karma in the West expressed as good action/thought =good result/experience, bad thought/action= bad result/experience. This is the idea that ‘what goes around comes around’. This belief about Karma is a distortion from its original understanding in ancient Hindu, Buddhist, or Jain religions. This is not how Traditional Ta**ra, as I was taught it, views Karma.

Traditional Ta**ra views Karma as the natural expression we are born into. For example: a cat is a cat, a dog is a dog, a giraffe is a giraffe and Karma is how well we are able to live out our full authentic expression without neurosis, deviance, other hindrance away from our essential nature. If we are an apple tree and spend our whole life trying to be an orange tree, this would not be a good expression of Karma. So our “job” is to live as authentically and freely as possible within the natural expression we inhabit.

I feel it is important to state, given modern understandings of gender expression and identity, that this is not a call to puritanical or rigid beliefs that we have to express gender in accordance with our physical anatomy or the sexual organs we were born with. In fact, according to the traditional philosophy of Karma, to force one’s gender identity to be in alignment with gender assigned at birth would just be operating out of inherited social conditioning or medical viewpoint. This alone would go against ones authentic expression if it is solely adopted from conditioning.

Ta**ra encultures true freedom of expression. The only deviance is anything that limits that inherent expression.