Table Of ContentTANTRIC WISDOM FOR TODAY’S WORLD
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ANTRIC ISDOM
for Today’s World
The New Yoga of Awareness
Acharya Peter Wilberg
Peter Wilberg © Copyright 2007
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ISBN 978-1448650-10-1
Published in the United States of America by New Yoga Publications, Create Space 2009
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special acknowledgements as sources of inspiration, scholarship and citations to:
Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega
Mark S.G. Dyczkowski
Georg Feuerstein
David Peter Lawrence
Seth/Jane Roberts
Michael Kosok
Jaideva Singh
Special acknowledgements as sources of encouragement, editorial support and
help in proofing and manuscript preparation to:
Andrew Gara
Karin Heinitz
Michael Horgan
CONTENTS
Note to the Reader........................................................................................................11
Note by the Author.......................................................................................................12
INITIAL VERSES
The Wisdom of Tantra..................................................................................................15
Who You are..................................................................................................................16
Awareness as Ultimate Truth and Reality..................................................................17
PART I – BACKGROUND
CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION
The New Yoga and the Meaning of Life....................................................................23
The multidimensional World of Awareness..............................................................27
Making new Sense of Tantric Teachings....................................................................28
The Voices of the Gods................................................................................................29
CHAPTER 2 – SOURCES OF THE NEW YOGA
The religious Tradition of The New Yoga.................................................................33
Proto-Shaivism...............................................................................................................34
Tantra, Shiva and ‘The Christ of India’......................................................................35
The Christ of India and Christ in Kashmir................................................................36
Kashmir Shaivism..........................................................................................................37
Shaivism as the Religion of SHIVA-SHAKTI..........................................................38
‘ANUTTARA’ – The Godhead of Shaivism.............................................................39
The Spiritual Mission of The New Yoga....................................................................40
Tantra as Religion..........................................................................................................42
CHAPTER 3 – THE AWARENESS PRINCIPLE
The New Yoga in a Nutshell........................................................................................51
Attaining Freedom Through Awareness....................................................................52
Example of Awareness in Everyday Life...................................................................54
The Awareness Principle..............................................................................................56
What is ‘Awareness’? What is ‘Meditation’?...............................................................57
‘Transcendental’ Meditation.........................................................................................58
Experiencing Fully Through Awareness....................................................................60
The Tantric Doctrine of Recognition.........................................................................61
CHAPTER 4 – THE EVOLUTION OF AWARENESS
The Prehistory of Human Awareness.........................................................................65
The Evolution of Ego Awareness...............................................................................66
The Development of Ego Awareness........................................................................67
The Divinisation of the Ego........................................................................................68
From the Ego to the Awareness Self..........................................................................69
‘Prime Identity’ and the Awareness Self.....................................................................70
God, Gods and Prime Identities.................................................................................71
CHAPTER 5 – THE THEOLOGY OF THE NEW YOGA
The Co-Creation of God and Man.............................................................................75
The Ocean of Divine Awareness................................................................................79
‘SHIVA’, ‘Shaivism’ and ‘Nootheology’.....................................................................80
Pearls of Classical Tantric Wisdom.............................................................................81
CHAPTER 6 – REVOLUTIONARY YOGA
‘Yoga’ today....................................................................................................................87
A Global Revolution in Awareness.............................................................................88
The Subversive Nature of Awareness........................................................................89
Awareness and Time Quality.......................................................................................90
The Social Dimension of Tantra.................................................................................91
The New Yoga as a New Hinduism...........................................................................92
Humanity on the Threshold of Awareness................................................................93
CHAPTER 7 – SERPENTS, SEX AND KUNDALINI
On the Trans-Human Sources of ‘Tantra’.................................................................97
‘NAGAS’ – the naked Truth of Tantra......................................................................98
Tantra and Global Serpent Symbolism......................................................................99
Nagas and the Essence of ‘Kundalini’......................................................................100
The Supreme Synthesis...............................................................................................101
The Inner Meaning of ‘Tantric Sex’..........................................................................102
Genesis and the Gendering of the Gods.................................................................103
Abhinavagupta on the Divine Couple......................................................................104
Divine Bisexuality and Trans-Sexuality....................................................................105
God as ‘SHIVA-SHAKTI’.........................................................................................106
Tantric Sex and ‘Kundalini Yoga’.............................................................................107
The winged Serpent – Spacesuit of the Soul...........................................................108
CHAPTER 8 – SOUL RELATIONS
Identity, Self and ‘Soul’...............................................................................................111
‘KULA’ – the Soul as a Family of Selves.................................................................112
Seth on the Ego and the Supra-Self..........................................................................113
‘KULA’, ‘AKULA’ and ‘KAULA’ Tantra...............................................................114
The New Yoga View of ‘Reincarnation’..................................................................115
Reincarnation and ‘Karmic’ Relationships...............................................................116
CHAPTER 9 – AWARENESS AND ‘ENERGY’
Being and Awareness..................................................................................................119
The big ‘Energy Block’ to Understanding...............................................................120
‘Energy’ as Action........................................................................................................121
The Divine Logic of ‘SHIVA-SHAKTI’..................................................................122
CHAPTER 10 – THE AWARENESS BODY
The Awareness Body as Field Body..........................................................................125
Visualising the Awareness Body................................................................................126
The Fourth Field and Fourth State – ‘TURYA’......................................................127
SHIVA’S ‘Third Eye’ – Unified Field Awareness...................................................128
CHAPTER 11 – AWARENESS AND GURU
Awareness as ‘GURU’.................................................................................................131
The Place of ‘GURU’ in The New Yoga.................................................................133
Anhinavagupta’s 15 Verses of Wisdom....................................................................134
15 Verses of Tantric Wisdom....................................................................................136
Psychic Powers of Awareness – ‘SIDDHIS’...........................................................138
PART II – PRACTICE
CHAPTER 12 – THE PRACTICE OF AWARENESS
Taking Time to be Aware...........................................................................................145
Awareness, Space and Time.......................................................................................146
Awareness as Time-Space...........................................................................................147
The Varying Shapes of People’s Time-Space..........................................................148
Awareness as Liberation in this Life.........................................................................149
Meditation in The New Yoga....................................................................................150
The Fundamental Choice to be Aware.....................................................................151
From Being Aware to Being Awareness...................................................................152
Aware Action and Aware Identification...................................................................153
Choosing Freedom through Awareness...................................................................154
The First Fundamental Distinction...........................................................................155
The Foundational Mudra............................................................................................156
The Foundational Mantra...........................................................................................157
10 Steps - from Being Aware to Being Awareness..........................................................158
Inner Silence as the Secret of Awareness.................................................................159
Listening from Translucent Inner Silence................................................................160
Listening as Path to Higher Knowledge...................................................................161
The New Yoga Foundation Meditation...................................................................162
The Foundation Meditation in Verse........................................................................164
The Importance of Meditating ‘Negativity’.............................................................165
Recalling Negative Events with Awareness.............................................................166
On ‘Difficulties’ in Sustaining Awareness................................................................168
From Being to Bodying Awareness..........................................................................169
Questions that Cultivate Bodily Awareness.............................................................170
CHAPTER 13 – THE FIELD NATURE OF AWARENESS
Focal Awareness and Field Awareness.....................................................................173
From Focal to Field Awareness.................................................................................174
The Feeling Nature of Awareness.............................................................................175
Feeling Awareness as Tone........................................................................................176
On the Nature of Feeling Tone.................................................................................177
From Resonance to Resonation................................................................................178
CHAPTER 14 – ‘MUDRA’ AND ‘MANTRA’ YOGA
‘MANTRA’, ‘MUDRA’, ‘MUKHA’ and ‘MURTI’.................................................181
Seth on the Nature of Inner Sound..........................................................................182
The New Yoga of the Inner Voice............................................................................183
Cultivating Voice Awareness......................................................................................184
Modulating Your Inner Voice...................................................................................185
Mantra Meditation in The New Yoga.......................................................................186
Mudra Meditation in The New Yoga........................................................................187
The New Yoga of Sound............................................................................................188
The Mystical Alphabet – ‘Matrika’............................................................................189
Practicing The New Yoga of Sound.........................................................................190
Mantra as ‘Medicine Sounds’.....................................................................................191
Mantra on the Primordial Sound – ‘M’....................................................................192
CHAPTER 15 – TANTRIC PAIR MEDITATION
Tantric Resonation and Pair Meditation..................................................................195
Guide to Tantric Pair Meditation..............................................................................196
Experiences of Tantric Pair Meditation...................................................................198
The Body of Feeling Awareness................................................................................201
The Sexual Nature of the “Tantric Body”...............................................................202
‘Love’ and ‘Intimacy’ in The New Yoga..................................................................204
Advanced Tantric Arts of Awareness.......................................................................205
The Power of Tantric Initiation................................................................................206
An Experience of Tantric Initiation..........................................................................207
The Role of the Intellect in Enlightenment.............................................................208
CHAPTER 16 – SOUL AND SENSUALITY IN TANTRA
Tantra and the True Nature of the Soul...................................................................211
Awareness Beyond East and West............................................................................212
From Suffering to Mystical Truth.............................................................................213
The Second Fundamental Distinction......................................................................214
The Fundamental Formula of The New Yoga........................................................215
‘AKASHA’ – Awareness as Space............................................................................216
Experiencing Awareness Space.................................................................................217
Sensed Qualities of Spatial Awareness.....................................................................218
Expanding Bodily Awareness Space.........................................................................219
‘PRAKASHA’ – Awareness as Light........................................................................220
‘SHAKTI’ – Awareness as Power.............................................................................221
‘PRANA’ – Awareness as Breath..............................................................................222
Breathing Awareness...................................................................................................223
The New Yoga of the Breath.....................................................................................224
Prana and the Double Breath Cycle..........................................................................225
Meditations in Breathing Awareness........................................................................226
CHAPTER 17 – GUNAS
Beyond Bipolar Psychology.......................................................................................231
More on the three Gunas...........................................................................................233
Meditating the Gunas with The New Yoga.............................................................235
‘GU-RU’ and the Fourth Guna – ‘NIRGUNA’.....................................................236
From the Bhagavadgita...............................................................................................237
The Gunas as Basic Relationships to Being.............................................................239
The ‘TRIKA’ Principle of Tantric Philosophy........................................................240
Adding New Dimensions to Trika............................................................................241
Trika as a Triadic Cycle of Awareness......................................................................242
The Role of Religious Symbolysm............................................................................243
CHAPTER 18 – SUMMARY
What is ‘YOGA’? What is ‘The New Yoga’?...........................................................247
The Awareness Principle Again.................................................................................250
Practicing the Awareness Principle...........................................................................251
The Old Yoga and the NEW – Differences............................................................253
APPENDIX
The Light of Awareness in the Afterlife...................................................................267
From ‘JEHOVAH’ to ‘SHIVA’ – Sacred Names...................................................269
About Acharya Peter Wilberg and ‘The New Yoga’..............................................270
Bibliography 1..............................................................................................................273
Bibliography 2..............................................................................................................274
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