Tantric
consummation
The practice1 of Tantra serves to generate
the response to the attainment of completeness,2 namely the
blissful, wholly intoxicating and liberating3 honeymoon
experience.4 Tantric practice initially employs everyday objects,5
specifically the most attractive,6 like a sexual partner, booze or
drugs,7 to achieve its goal. Real tantric consummation,8 i.e. the actual achievement of completeness in/with the
everyday world, happens if and when an everyday unresolved problem (thus
incompleteness) is resolved or an incomplete everyday task is completed.9
(Fantasized) supra-mundane Tantric consummation10
happens if and when the response to completeness is universalized.11 In both cases the (personal) response to the
achievement of consummation = completeness, namely the honeymoon experience,
is experienced as real/true. In other words, Tantric practice employs the mundane12
to achieve completeness (i.e. oneness) resulting
from consummation with the intention of enjoying the ecstatic after-effects
as his/her (albeit brief) consummation as salvation.13 The Tantric
who universalizes his/her response to achieving consummation = completeness
revels in the ecstatic after-effects of the experience of universal
completeness as (albeit brief) his/her ultimate salvation. © 2019 by Victor Langheld |
1.
i.e. as Yoga. All
forms of Yoga pursue the same outcome, namely oneness (Sanskrit: kaivalya)
that results from consummation (hence completeness) and that pays off in/as
salvation = bliss. In short, all Yogas serve as
training routines that enable consummation. What all yogas
strive for is consummation (i.e. completion =
oneness) for consummation’s sake since consummation as such pays off in bliss
(allegedly the Brahman or Ishwara state). Besically all yoga variations are so many training
routines by means of which
achievement (i.e. winning) is trained. 2.
Highly elastic synonyms for ‘completeness’ are:
union, oneness; isolation (solipsism); ‘not two’, marriage (bodily or
mystical) and so on. 3.
Isolation, i.e. oneness, briefly liberates,
releases, frees (Sanskrit: moksha or mukti,
Pali: vimukti) from the (the drag, dullness,
dreariness, suffering of the) world (Sanskrit: samsara) as incomplete
duality-to-multiplicity. Hypothetical (absolute because fantasized as
ultimate) supra-mundane (tantric) consummation liberates absolutely. 4.
The honeymoon
experience doubles as personal salvation. It’s the experience
of becoming the winner, i.e. the ‘fittest.’ 5.
i.e. the mundane,
i.e. the everyday world. 6.
These allow for easy concentration. At maximum
concentration perfection is achieved and both observer and observed present
as perfect, beautiful, glowing and so on. 7.
Beginners use these, ‘the forbidden things,’ as
the easiest means. Adept tantrics can, at will,
employ any identifiable reality, for instance, a tomato or a bed bug or a
pimple, to achieve the same outcome, i.e. the
experience of perfection. Their trick (like that of the medieval Chinese Chan
masters) is (was) to respond to any contact as to the new, hence as to a true
miracle, thus milking the ‘wow’ experience envelope of the miracle/the new. 8.
Consummation, meaning: “completion.” From Latin consummare “to sum up, finish,” from com- “together”
+ summa “sum, total,” from summus
“highest”, in the sense of “completion of a marriage (by sexual intercourse)”
since c. 1530. Idem ‘consumption’ as means
to completeness (and the pleasure that derives therefrom. 9.
Thus producing a new reality, i.e. creation. In the
everyday run of things the honeymoon experience resulting from consummation,
i.e. from the achievement of completeness, is not registered because either
the act of completion is insignificant (i.e. as when I close a door or clean
my teeth) or the observer’s mindfulness is diminished due to lack of
concentration or processing overload. 10. For instance the union,
marriage and so on with (a fantasized) God (as other) is a
infantile/juvenile, henotheist response. For the adult monotheist, indeed the
pantheist, consummation of the union with any ‘alternative’ (and which the
juvenile imagines as ‘other’) is identical with consummation with/as God since each ‘other’ operates as a n
alternate God app. 11. Generalization towards universalization, hence the
invention of the hypothetical notion of ‘ultimate’ (and the 2 truths reality
theory) is a juvenile (i.e. henotheist) ordering
mode. It played the dominant, albeit distracting but highly entertaining role
in early Hindu darshanas and Greek
philosophy. The pantheist (more so the ancient Hindu Charvaka)
is silent on ‘ultimates’ since each identifiable
reality happens as the whole (hence ultimate), albeit as local application. 12. The mundane
comes in two forms, namely actual/real and virtual/imaginary. Using devotion
to or love for an imaginary (thus fake) ‘other’, such as Krishna, Lakshmi or
Mary, the Mother of God, to achieve the consummation
of completeness and liberation is the practice of Bhakti (yoga) and which is
the most popular variation of Tantra. First consummation with a God is achieved; then consummation is achieved with any bite of nature as
which serves as local God variation. 13. In much the
same way as does casual sex that (also) produces pleasure/bliss. In short, if
I can’t be a real winner and get its reward, i.e. bliss, I can always fake
winning and also milk the reward of bliss. |