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Inner Tantra
Inner Tantra
What is Inner Tantra?
What is Inner Tantra?
Inner Tantra is the direct way to awaken and deepen awareness through various practices. It focuses on recognising the essence of consciousness, activating the inner bliss-energy cycle, and working with the subtle body’s energy channels, seed-syllables, and sacred symbols (like the maṇḍala and cakra). The process includes learning to rest in the natural state and recognising the primordial awareness that underlies all experience.
Inner Tantra teachings help to seamlessly integrate fundamental experiences and emotions, and ultimately awakening to the fruit of realisation.
Step-by-Step Practice
Step-by-Step Practice
With the rain of nectar of his teachers' blessings, our Acharya offers one-to-one Inner Tantra instruction for those who would like to explore the path in this way.
The instructions take place in a step-by-step manner:
upadeśa instruction: recognising the very essence of consciousness devoid of any artifice
activating the inner coiled energy cycle and learning to melt the inner nectar through her primordial seed-syllable, working with the nāḍīs of the subtle body, nyāsa or infusion of the seed-syllables, and working with the maṇḍala and cakra
resting in the outer, inner and secret space of awareness
recognising innate primordial awareness, with the help of the ways of letting things be in their simple naturalness
leaping over through the great spontaneity of the path: awakening to the fruit
The space in heart does not exist apart from its innate knowing aspect called Awareness. This natural state ever discerns itself. One can learn to distinguish it from the conditioned states of the mind, the senses and samsaric states of experience. This process begins in a very simple way, by recognising, acknowledging, accepting, integrating and liberating the fundamental waves of experience, their underlying emotional patterns and perceptive dimensions.
No matter a person's background, one can thus swiftly discover one's own pristine awareness resting within the maṇḍala ablaze with qualities of great, inexhaustible treasure.
The simile of the mountain lake is often used in this context in order to illustrate our pristine awareness. The surface of a mountain lake is neither defiled nor affected by the reflections that appear within it, nor do the waves that temporarily occur upon it ever truly disturb its clarity.
With detailed instructions, the practitioner learns to trace thoughts to their natural source, coming to realise that outer and inner manifestations merely arise in a condition known as the infinite equality of all phenomena.
Structure
The structure of the one-to-one approach is:
One hour of one-to-one instruction every week, meticulously working together on the practical fundamentals of the path: recognition of consciousness, meditation, harnessing the tantric energies of the subtle body channels, stabilising the view, working with the visions, and experiencing the blazing of the fruit.
Days and times are found together flexibly, according to convenience. Based on a practitioner's location, one-on-one practice sessions can take place through Zoom or in person.
Personal daily practice, which can easily be integrated with other practices and daily life.
Ever abiding in naturally spacious awareness and allowing the world to be experienced as its dynamic aspect, being a stream of bliss and blessings for all.
Preconditions
Our own true nature has no preconditions.
Ideally, formally speaking, the practitioner commits to practising sincerely by implementing the instructions and becoming a tantric adept in order to truly repeat the benefits.
Costs
Interestingly, the Tantras do not allow a real tantric teacher to charge fixed fees. The tantric tradition has always worked on the basis of donation, known as dāna or dakṣiṇā. This keeps the lineage pristine and powerful.
As a thank you for the teaching, Inner Tantra practitioners are thus advised to give donations from the heart based on their means. No-one is turned away for lack of funds.
About Acharya
About Acharya
Originally known as Vidyasagar, Acharya Vidyabhaskar, also known as Sherab Gyatso, was born in Switzerland in 1984. By his gurus' kindness, Acharya has more than thirty years of learning from great Indian and Tibetan scholars and masters of nonduality, especially Odyana-origin tantric traditions known as Śrīvidyā, Mantrayāna and Atiyoga.
Hereditary Mirasdar of Kanchi Kamakshi Sri Kamakati Shastri empowered him in Śrīvidyā with the full consecration or pūrṇābhiṣeka. Further, A.dzom Paylo Rinpoche, the great mahasiddha from Tibet, empowered him as a Dorje Lopön or Vajracharya. He has completed many years of retreat and semi-retreat in Atiyoga.
He also learnt the fundamentals of Vipassana under the guidance of the realised Theravada teacher Ajahn Tong Sirimangalo. Ajahn Tong requested him to teach according to the Satipaṭṭhāna approach of the Mahasi tradition.
His initial studies took place at Sri Kailās Ashram in Rishikesh, India, where he underwent the traditional education curriculum as a novice monastic from the age of 12 onwards. Among others, he studied Sanskrit under the renowned scholars Sri Swami Vidyānanda Giri and with the great grammarian Acharya Siddhartha Krishna. After completing traditional studies, he studied Comparative Religion at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, graduating with a Licentiate or M.A. He continued doctoral studies in Cultural Studies and Psychology.
Today, with the blessings of his gurus, he teaches Sanskrit, nondual scriptural texts, Inner Tantra and Atiyoga in Switzerland and India.
For our Acharya, Inner Tantra is a living, blazing stream of nondual wisdom. It is the living transmission carrying forward the pith instructions of the great yogīs and yoginīs of yore to realise one’s own nature as primordial awareness. His approach is experience-based and non-sectarian, seeing how all the Inner Tantra lineages point the finger at the essential truth of nonduality. He has a deep regard for all approaches, focussing on non-conceptual, effortless practice, unconditional compassion, unexcelled techniques and palpable fruits.
Kurukullā, the dancing Vajrayāna form of Śrī-Lalitā
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