(from "A Jewel From My Mother's Crown"):
This transformation of your own character is what is important to the ritual.
You start with your present situation; this includes and implies fears, lusts, greeds, possessiveness, hunger for power, all kinds of limitations and your feelings of separation. It is from this starting point you have to move, to shed your inhibitions one by one and learn what it means to have intercourse with the world.
Every aspect of your life is maithuna or intercourse, not just sex; Tantrā redefines this as the enjoyment of the beauty. Tantrā teaches that you do not have to own anything in order to enjoy it. Do you own the ground that you walk upon? Do you own the air that you breathe? Do you have to own the sun, the stars, the moon and the clouds for you to see and enjoy?
Ownership is not there, except in the broad sense of “Yes, I own the whole world!”
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