Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00041)

Jerry:
>I do not practice it, but I do think it is a reasonable practice when
>done in the Tantric context described in the literature. However, it
>smacks too much of sex magic and is so easy to be abused that
>it probably should be avoided by us Westerners. Jnanamudra is
>another story because we have Jungian psychology telling us
>that men have a feminine anima and that women have a
>masculine animus and so a practice that can unite these seems
>to be a much better approach for us Westerners.

More likely the same story.  The form of Jnanamudra is a visualized
goddess ie an elemental or deva that is sexually arousing. This practice
can end up being just self-stimulation.

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  When the energy of life is released, may I behold clearly Amitabha
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