Tantra is every nuance of existence and non-existence in ecstatic union – in florid, fecund and fiery dance! This is our situation. This very moment is Tantra, and contains limitless energy. It’s ruthlessly and seductively uncompromising. The sheer potency of what we are is overwhelmingly and provocatively inconvenient; but, it is there!
When we recoil from it, through any variety of dread, that is also Tantra. It’s impossible to hide from our own hiding. The energy of Tantra is both fight and flight. This is a terrifyingly obvious fact, but we have become ‘expert’ at pretending that we are unaware of it. We have to remain unaware of it in order to remain unenlightened. But, wherever we look, the mirror of reality reflects it for us.
p29-30, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4