Tantra in Pynchon's Against the Day

[David Morris]

P definitely fits with Tantra, the low road, inclusive of all experience
and peoples.
Tantra's details were historically kept secret, because it embraced sexual
energy as a vehicle of transformation.  Tantra's prime goddess is
Kundalini, aka Kali, a very fierce female. She is a kick ass V.

David Morris

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:58 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Informative, very, and somehow P's low but inclusive road is " right"
> within his vision, IMHO.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 2, 2017, at 10:08 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tantra is the low road to Zen's high road.  Both reach the goal, but by
> very different means. Tantra is inclusive of all experience as vehicles of
> real value . Zen is exclusive of all experience's real value, all being
> illusion and distraction. Tantra is "wet."  Zen is "dry."  Tantra is body.
> Zen is mind.  Historically, Zen was exclusively for men and upper castes.
> Tantra was open to all, including women and lower castes. Both are valid
> ways to awakening.
>
> My path is Tantra,
> David Morris
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:39 PM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> "The noted Quaternionist Dr. V. Ganesh Rao of Calcutta University was
>> seeking a gateway to the Ulterior, as he liked to phrase it, having come to
>> recognize the wisdom of simply finding silence and allowing Mathematics and
>> History to proceed as they would." (p. 130)
>>
>> https://oak.ucc.nau.edu/jgr6/pynchon_against.htm
>>
>> John Rothfork: Tantra in Pynchon's *Against the Day*
>>
>> > ... What Pynchon calls grace seems to be related to what Hindus call
>> *rasa* that invites us to * taste* or savor experience rather than
>> substituting talk, ideas, and explanations for the experience. (...) The
>> answer to the complexities offered by the novel, if we can call it an
>> answer, seems to be *rasa,* beauty, or grace ... <
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasa_(aesthetics)
>>
>>
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