Finding Home in Yourself during Challenging Times: Wisdom of the Tantrics
Finding Home in Yourself during Challenging Times: Wisdom of the Tantrics
Discover how the timeless, life-affirming teachings of Tantra can serve as a direct means to self-healing and deep transformation to help face the challenges of everyday life.
Cultivate the power of your own intuitive insight (pratibhā) to illuminate your path to freedom and awakening.
This is the first session of my Wisdom of Tantra series. To peruse or the whole series, please click here.
The "Finding Home in Your Self" presentation contains some of the most profoundly healing, empowering and self-compassionate wisdom teachings ever offered by the Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shavism.
Do I identify my sense of home, my sense of well being, with a location, a physical space, or in another person? In my relationships with others?
In other words, do I identify ‘home’ outside of my Self?
Is my ideal of ‘home’ one that embraces flow, or does it attract suffering by resisting the inevitability of change?
What does it mean for me to establish a non-dependent sense of home?
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“I am the Divine. I am nothing else. I am not a receptacle for sorrow, for I am the Absolute alone. I am made of Being, Consciousness, and Bliss. My truest home is my highest Self, Who is forever free.” –-Mantra-Tantra-Prakasha
“Searching for my Self, I wore myself out; For none by searching ever gained the secret knowledge beyond the mind. I stopped searching, and love led me to the Tavern* door. There I found wine jars aplenty, But few desiring to drink from them." –-Kashmir Poetess Lallā, 14th century.
“Oh Shiva! I bow to anyone who makes their home their own Self, comprised of Your very essence. Abounding in this treasure, they are heedless of food and have no need for shelter.” --Utpaladeva, 10th century Tantric Master
Course Reviews
“Thank you! What an awesome practice and opportunity you helped create for all of us. I look forward to traveling through the remaining topics…” -L.V., student
“Meditating upon one's sense of home, particularly in becoming of aware of the need to find home within the self --is powerful, liberating, and a bit awe-inspiring at the same time….” -A.F.
“Thank you for sharing this workshop with us, I've been personally working on what home means to me and so this was great to integrate into my yoga practice.” – S.H.