Tantra

[skyethebard]

While successfully avoiding the homework in my lap, I ran into these words today:

And yet it can happen during sexual relations that for a moment or for hours, the partners, both of them, feel a oneness with all things which is infinitely poignant because it feels like the state we were born to live in all the time, our original nature.

The words

Comments

[byteraven]

A wonderful feeling, that I have shared with one other and I look forward to exploring it and sharing it time and time again.

[skyethebard]

*kiss*

I'm sure many such experiences are in our shared future.

[dimers]

I don't get the "oneness" bit, though I'd say I'm not feeling my usual underlying disconnectedness while I'm in that state. It's more like it doesn't matter what level of connection I have or feel, because Life Is Right Right Now regardless.

"Poignant" might also be questionable. I grew up with the understanding of that word as including a feeling of sadness over the loss of something enjoyed, such that either you're poignant about something you lost in the past, or you're projecting forward to losing something later and feeling the sadness over that loss now. That's not the only meaning for the word today; it's often used to just mean "emotionally significant". Anyhoo -- I don't experience a simultaneous sensation of loss in my sexual bliss.