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Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening
by Daniel Odier
from Inner Traditions

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Part of the way in understanding Tantra
  Daniel Odier's Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening is a good introduction to Tantra but I did not lose the feeling that Tantra was just an excuse for licentiousness until I read his subsequent book Yoga Spandakarika. In the latter Odier relays a fuller understanding of and feeling for Tantra. I would read them together as a set.

• open to the "luminosity of existence"
  According to almost all the great world religions including Buddhism, desire is an enemy blocking the path to enlightenment. Contrary to this, Daniel Odier maintains that desire is the only true path to liberation. According to Odier, the primary requirement for a spiritual seeker to fully awaken is simple, direct, personal experience. He refers to his disciplined approach as "micropractices" involving the conscious withdrawal from habitual activities for just a few seconds several times a day. There is no... more info

• Wholistic Tantra
  The best thing about this book, for me, is its easy-to-understand (if not always easy-to-practice) wholistic view of Tantric practice. Tantric practice is NOT just about sex -- it's about falling in love with the whole universe on a much subtler level, if I may put it into my own words. Odier mixes chapters that give solid, Western-life examples of new ways to look at the world with chapters on readings from ancient texts. Frankly, the latter are mostly over my head, but the book is engaging enough that I... more info

• An excellent book
  If you are interested in learning about tantra, this is an excellent starting point. Written by a professor from the University of California, he describes how he was initiated by Devï. Of course, tantra is still a very exotic form of meditation and considered as a very unusual sexual technique. Odier describes how he learned the technique and what effects it had on him. More important he illustrates how sex can become a way of opening up your mind. After you have read it, you'll want to learn it, but... more info

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