The Hedonist Ascetic
64 Tantric Arts for the New Paradigm
Invoke a Tantric Lifestyle, Master Your Reality
Invoke a tantric lifestyle and achieve Bliss with the 64 Tantric Arts. Develop the habit of infusing your day with these arts and you will find that your life rapidly changes. As you explore your unique creative energy and then begin to use it to effect change in the world, you will find that your effect and lifestyle will shift completely in a matter of a few weeks. The only way that you can feel the importance of these acts is to do them. Through the visceral understanding of your version of these arts, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of yourself and the difference between you and others. You will see your limitations but also see expansion possible in so many areas that you weren’t aware of and you’ll understand your ability to evolve yourself and the world around you.
These creative practices also magnetize your desired life toward you. When you explore all of your earthly faculties and ways of relating to the world around you; when you exercise and expand your parameters, you will move closer to the iconoclasts of your ideal forms. Additionally, as you devote your attention to these activities, you will begin to understand the difference between the part of you that functions and feels in reality and the part of you that watches your process. This will enrich your meditative world.
These practices begin with cultivating strength in an area and then emitting this quality through your particular filter. As you practice these you’ll develop a detailed and vast understanding of yourself in your unique way of being and the quality that you put out into the world. As you understand more about your baseline and methods, you can mold, direct, and fine-tune; you can consciously evolve. This process helps you to be able to see your life now as a point in your spiritual development, where your spirit is wearing your body and current circumstances like clothes.
“Do not find fault with others, rather see your own faults. Learn to make the world your own.” Saradha Devi
Using the 64 Tantric arts to relate to self, others, and the world around you in an enriching and evolutionary way. Pepper them throughout your day—choosing one or a few to play with during spare moments. At first it might feel silly and superfluous, but you’ll soon see that these small creative acts change your life. They give you the light. Use your creative energy to affect and encourage the world around you to grow in your light.
The 64 Tantric Arts…..
It begins with art; the fundamental act of manipulating matter in the light of personal taste expression. A person must explore their visual archetypal language to understand with it is to express in the ether. You feel the divinity of the world around you as you create your own world with art and hold the perspective of God. Begin with fashioning pieces of nature with bits of things like string, fabric, paper and let it evolve into explaining and marking your perspective on the world.
The art of picture making and decorating
Making handicrafts e.g.– parrots, flowers etc. from thread
Writing and drawings
Making artificial flowers
Making images with clay
The art of coloring jewels or beads
Making rosaries, necklaces, garland
Knowledge of making flower chariots
Creating particular sounds and intonations is a way of expressing your fundamental life force. There are theories that matter was initially created with the vibration of sound. So devote time and attention to mastering your tones, your rhythm, your way of participating in music. Eventually, it becomes sacred tonal music that acts as a meditation and energetic alignment tool.
Singing
Dancing
Producing music by striking glasses of water, metal things, wood, and various surfaces
The skill of imitating natural sounds
Playing a musical instrument
A combination of singing, using musical instruments and dancing
The skill of Antakshari (a singing game where one must start with the letter with which the other person’s song ended)
Reading, chanting and intoning
Become a shape-shifter. Study your own way of being in the world and that of others. Develop your understanding of the subtle variances in people enough to be able to mimic someone else.
Theater
Stage playing
The art of impersonation
Expanding Beauty
Applying perfumes on body and hair
Tying turbans
The art of making ear ornaments
The art of making perfumes
Proper care of jewels, decorations and ornaments
Tailoring and sewing
The Art of Tattooing
Physical and Mental Strength Building
Skills in sports and games
Knowledge of gymnastics
Mastering tongue twisters
Solving riddles, puzzles and covert speeches
Mental exercises
The skills of enjoying arithmetic puzzles
Creating food and nourishing others is a way of expressing our understanding of nourishment, of nutrition, of satisfaction. By sharing satisfaction with others, we create more of it in the world. Cooking is also the first sort of alchemy that we experience; magic spells of nutrients that cause particular behaviors and reactions in others.
Gardening
Cooking (culinary skills)
The art of storing water in reservoirs
Making combination drinks and flavored drinks i.e.– lemonades, sherbet, etc.
Chemistry (knowledge of properties of materials)
Building Space
The practice of using our strength, understanding of beauty, and intellectual fortitude to affect our surroundings. To beautify is to feed and heal. Through these practices, after developing our abilities and understanding, one can be a presence that adds beauty to anything we touch with our senses. This is a level of tantric enlightenment: seeing and experiencing the perfection of God in everything that exists. As we adorn our physical space, in acts however small, this recognition of and desire for beauty radiates out as a prayer to know the finest echelons of sensual experience, that is headed by life for it adores this dance with us.
Adorning an idol with flowers
The art of spreading flowers on a bed or the ground
Coloring fabrics, nails, and body with colors from plants
Fixing colored glass tiles on the floor
The art of making a bed
Physical Structure Building
Carpentry
Architecture
Knowledge of gold, silver, and gems
Knowledge of mines
Communicating with others and expressing our ideas, thoughts, and opinions is a fundamental way to access the space between self and others. The deeper we go into this territory with others, the more we find out about ourselves, our self-control, our reactions, and our justifications. Experiences and ideas must be put into a hierarchy and line to be put into words. With this process, we define our reality to self and others.
Understanding of code language
The skill of reading and composing verses
Spoonerism (purposefully interchanging position of letters of words while speaking)
Teaching parrots or starlings to talk
Knowledge of languages
Composing poems
Knowledge of dictionaries and vocabulary
Conflict arts
One needs to explore their darkness before they can understand their light. In order to potently decide to seek peace, there is a need to understand conflict. If a person has the skills necessary to win at conflict, their decision to avoid it is potent and speaks with magnitude to the necessity of war. These are the ways to explore the different aspects of war and brute strength. One can move from an intimate knowledge of their own potency, to exploring that of others. It is eventually possible to create a climate of fighting and inflict it on others, to infuse brutal energy into another creature and to set them out to win at any consequence. There are many ways to do this, but the important thing is to be aware of that energy and ability so that we may turn it on and off at will. This gives a complete picture of our personal responsibility for the things, people, energy and occurrences around us.
The art of social conduct, giving authentic respect and compliments in a way that they are received.
The art of understanding a person’s real character based on his conduct
Creating logical conclusions based on given facts. One must learn to take in the facts without emotional complication and understand a situation logically based on apparent reality.--
Gambling: understanding the nature of greed and the cold reality of life. Gambling is a black and white dangerous way to play with your fortitude.
Martial arts (the skills to use sword, stick, bow and arrow)
Knowledge of war, arms, and army deployment
The art of cock fighting (getting animals to fight and make the animal victorious)
Once a person fully understands these Archetypes of Human Experience, they are able to move beyond them and manipulate the very nature of reality itself. A broad familiarity with the third dimension attained while associating higher perspective makes it possible for one to live outside of the reality that surrounds us; to move through the various layers and dimensions of experience, and operating accordingly.
Magic: Karma: Planting seeds with action, causing action by combining intention with reality. Art and mimicry plays a strong factor in this process as a person must become what they are creating, they must bring it into the physical in a beautiful potent appealing way.
Make common things appear to be beautiful: This is a process of establishing and dominating value for the masses.
Using mantras, sounds and enchantments to take away others’ possessions. It is important to have a strong understanding of cause and effect, true natures and action reaction when taking from another person. Nothing happens in a void.
Bringing things from the ether into physical being, defining archetypes, Manifesting Mothertongue. This requires a knowledge of making mystical graphics, spells, and charms and ways to avoid spells
