112 Tantra Meditations – Breath Awareness & Kundalini Awaken

The Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (typically spelt in a Hindicised method as Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) is a key Tantra textual content of the Trika college of Pratyabhijna/Kashmir Shaivism within the Sanskrit language. Solid as a discourse between the god Bhairava and his consort Bhairavi, it briefly presents 112 Tantric meditation strategies or centring strategies. These embody a number of variants of breath consciousness, focus on numerous centres within the physique, non-dual consciousness, Mantra chanting, creativeness and visualization, and contemplation by every of the senses.

On this course, I cowl the 8 precept strategies out of 112. I’ve made guided meditations of all 8 strategies for simple demonstration of observe the strategies.

Strategies coated on this course give significance to Breath Consciousness and Visualization of Kundalini Vitality.

These tantric strategies are preceded by a number of fundamental mindfulness strategies to organize the thoughts for tantric meditations.

Many lecturers of Buddhism and yoga promote and train the observe of Mindfulness. When practising mindfulness, as an example by watching the breath, one maintains consideration on the chosen object of consciousness. At any time when the thoughts wanders away, one faithfully returns again to refocus on the breath.

The time period for Mindfulness in Sanskrit is Smrti—to remember, to recollect to be within the current second, now and sooner or later. In Tantric practise, one will even bear in mind the character of the breath, that the breath is Consciousness. As Kabir mentioned: the Divine is the breath throughout the breath.

Thus we might time period Tantric meditation Significant Mindfulness; the remembering not solely to meditate on the breath but additionally remembering that the breath itself is Consciousness; the Inside Witness; the Actual Self.

This type of meditation has the capability to take us right into a deeper state of silence and religious depth than mere Mindfulness. And, when remembering, when having attained steady mindfulness one attains Dhruva Smrti; that’s, one experiences steady remembering. Remembering of what? The remembering that each one objects of 1’s consideration are Sacred, are Divine, are bliss.