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Originally Posted by VPIP100
I read this on another forum and was curious if kentucky knows more about it:
I am no expert on Tibetan buddhism, I am more a zen buddhist myself, but I have read a fair amount. I know nothing about this kind of thing being a part of their practice, but it does not make sense to me from what I do know. Tantrics are a different thing completely.
Basically Tantrics stay in the moment being mindful of sex. Nothing wrong with that, it is an effective way to be mindful as anything. But, Tibetan buddhist would see it as a pale way to get there. Just like driving a car 130 mph will certainly focus you on what you are doing at the time (I know I used to live in Germany), or even watching an engaging movie or whatever can do the same thing.
The best way to get to mindfulness and indeed happiness is through meditation on loving-kindness for all beings. The evidence is unimpeachable, has been repeated, and makes quite a bit of sense. Matthieu Ricard can lay in an fMRI machine and meditate on loving-kindness and even when you torture him by causing him pain, or doing blasts of white noise at the volume of a starter's pistol, etc etc (and he is far from the only one who can)... he is happier than I would be if a mob of horny Victoria's Secret models were molesting me--what would be the point? It isn't a guess if he is happy, his left side pre-frontal cortex is lit up like Las Vegas.
Does not compute.