No truth therefore is more certain, more independent of all the others, and less in need of proof than this, that all that exists for knowledge, and therefore this whole world, is only object in relation to subject-perception of a perceiver, in a word, idea. Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860)
Sexual energy exists beyond genitals – Tantra is a full body and spirit experience. Sex is more satisfying if the intentions of give/receive are clear. Give and receive – focusing on one thing at a time.
The nervous system (pain/pleasure) affects the body and physical experience.
Adrenaline
- A hormone that acts as a neurotransmitter in proportion to the “danger” level
- Energy rush when working hard, doing several things at once
- Everything is sharp and intense
- Feeling of power
- Being on the edge
- Caused release of:
- Sugar from the liver and muscles
- Dopamine “the feel-good”
- Endorphins
- Alert, energetic, euphoric and addictive
- Stress-induced euphoria
- pre-historic fight-flight response to extreme danger
All that in any way belongs or can belong to the world is inevitable thus conditioned through the subject, and exists only for the subject. The world is idea. Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860)
The truth is by no means new. It was implicitly involved in the sceptical reflection from which Descartes started. Berkley, however, was the first who distinctly enunciated it, and by this, he has rendered a permanent service to philosophy, even though the rest of his teaching should not endure. Kant’s primary mistake was the neglect of this principle. How early again this truth was recognised by the wise men of India, appearing indeed as the fundamental tenet of the Vedanta philosophy ascribed to Vyasa is pointed out by Sir William Jones in the last of his essays ” On the philosophy of the Asiatics”.Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860)
Ecstasy
- Metaphysical experience that occurs, when all feelings, thoughts, bodiless and sensations have been eclipsed by the boundless
- Boundless beingness in a vast ocean of energy
- Peak experience
- Overwhelming delight and inspiration
- Sense of supreme happiness and freedom
- Access point – the present moment
Consciousness is that you are in a relaxed state of awareness with a quiet mind, able to focus gently and easily on the present moment. Awareness of mind and breath matching with others. Letting go of expectations.
The fundamental tenet of the Vedanta school consisted not in the denying of the existence of matter, that is, of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure (to deny which would be lunacy), but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that it has no essence independently of mental perception; that existence and perception are convertible terms . Sir William Jones (1746-94)