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UmaaTantra.com > Yoga and Tantra Articles > What you could learn from that lion cub... |
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I don't care how you walk the spiritual path - as a lover, a warrior, a monk, a yogi... you can learn a lot from the lion cub... Most spiritual seekers get nowhere fast for one reason, and one reason only... Boredom. Nobody is going to do a practice that's boring. But there is a better way of practicing. Just look at the lion cub... Watch lion cubs on Animal Planet or any African nature program on the tv... As you watch your screen, you'll become absorbed in the ultimate expansion of awareness, as the cubs stalk, pounce, hide, chase, frolic, posture, vocalize, seek solitude, negotiate their surroundings and each other... It's fun for them. It's filled with emotion. It's playful. It's relentless. It's realistic. Their kind of playing requires intuition. It never stops. It pushes limits. They need stillness and motion, quiet observation and rapid action. They build timing, awareness of distance, self-awareness and awareness of the others of their tribe. Their practice is motivated by primal drives - hunger, reproduction, social pressures, the need for fun! It builds focus without tunnel vision. This is the kind of practice that creates expansion (TAN-otti) to liberation (TRA-yotti)= TANTRA. What are we talking about here? Learning games... Lion cubs take each skill they need to perfect in order to survive and prosper, and turn it into an ever-expanding game. The game never stops. Even when they're sleeping, you can see them playing in their dreams - chasing, hunting, sniffing, listening. They play alone with their environment. They play with phantom "prey." They play with their food. They chase and stalk their brothers and sisters. They play with (and on) their mother. They learn to hunt, to fight, to find the best places to eat and sleep, they learn what plants to chew to settle an over-stuffed stomach. They learn conceal themselves from each other and their prey... The cubs constantly create, making more and more elaborate games. They learn to use all of their senses and emotion to intensify and remember these useful behavioral memories. They learn to trust intuition. They learn the effects of facial expression, posture, roars and whimpers, on themselves and those around them... They learn to always observe and be watchful, but to mind their own needs... To be both social and solitary. They learn that a lion who manages his surroundings out-competes the lion who merely reacts... For lion cubs, practice is never boring. It can't be. If a cub does something obvious, boring, or repetitive, the other lions quickly swat him in annoyance... The more a cub seeks new skills, the better a cub makes this game a fusion of creativity, aquisition, intensity, repetition, efficiency, variation, sensuality, emotion, intuition, and letting go at just the right time, the more the cub prospers... Let's come out of the program for a moment.... This lion's game is in itself more than most people grasp of the powerful learning process during their whole lifetimes.... Successful tantrics begin here, just like the lion cubs in the program, acquiring new skills by becoming simultaneously absorbed in themselves and in the world outside them. They use all the methods the lion cubs do, but with the goal of discovering their place in the animal kingdom, but also their conscious relationship to the Absolute, the Universal. Tantrics seek one-pointed absorption in the Absolute, while enjoying their lives in this world... liberated while in this body, constantly playing (leela) with passion, creativity, sensuality, and intuition... How can you achieve this feeling? Pick a tantric practice.. like transformation, awareness without judgement, purification, creation and offering without attachment to result (learn more in our Tantric Inner Circle dvd program...) At the beginning of the weekend, the day, or the hour, playfully integrate a simple tantric practice with your everyday life. Make it a part of eating, shopping, watching tv, working, relaxing, loving, or exercising. Then, all week, play with variations. Just like that lion cub in the tv program, give yourself the freedom to have fun, acquire new skills, to play, to enjoy, to improve. Connect *your* program with extraordinary experiences, emotionally, intuitively, sensually. Make it a part of your daily life... Keep playing and growing. Soon everything becomes a sadhana (spiritual practice)... Eating, sleeping, making love, cleaning, negotiation, going to the movies, everything... It's simple when you play our way, a little at a time, relentlessly and joyfully... The Dalai Lama smiles at every person he sees. If they don't smile back, he smiles again. It's simple, with no attachments... For every student, a teacher... Keep in touch! Smile, breathe right, and keep your tongue up! Your Friend, Tao Semko of www.UmaaTantra.com P.S. To "get" all the principles and techniques of the tantric path, become a member of the Tantric Inner Circle, Umaa Tantra's multimedia learning program: http://www.UmaaTantra.com/tantric_inner_circle.html |
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