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I attended an introduction to Tantra in the Kadampa Buddhism tradition. As usual the Buddhist terminology had me shaking my head in confusion. I've interpreted the gist of it in flavours I am more familiar with, starting with some background as to why one would even consider a practise in Tantra in the first place.

A talk at Phakalane by Raindance Network founders Niall Campbell and Nicola Robins addressed how traditional Southern African teachings can contribute to facing our current ecological challenges. They spoke of our modern, western non-relationship to chaos and a penny dropped.

As a young child I was overwhelmed by the notion of this one somewhere in the world I would meet and fall in love with. What if she was in China? Would chance succeed in bringing us together? Would she love me back? Childhood innocence yet, even in adulthood, there appears to remain this longing for the ideal partner where success in finding them is to be our defining life accomplishment under which all else hangs.

Simple things they don't tell you (yet) in the guidebooks. As a non-German speaking foreigner I am always grateful to be there with my SO who is from Munich.

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