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			Tantra can only be taught by the tantric master. It is original God-given power and knowledge.
			That knowledge has to be realised and made real in life, usually over many years through devastating love of God and woman. The right or responsibility to teach the knowledge is earned and implied in the realisation.
			A tantric master is first of all God-realised and inspired by that enormous knowledge. But all God-realised masters are not tantric masters. That's how rare genuine tantra is.
			My tantric teachings are for the individual, for you personally. If you've been helped by them in your own life they have fulfilled their purpose. You can go on using them to reach a deeper and more real place within your being. But if you use my tantric teachings in an attempt to teach others you misuse them and mislead the people.
			When you teach something that you have not realised yourself and you build on someone else's original knowledge, you only give the people a rehash of the truth plus the information of your unenlightened experience. You might say this is better than nothing. But is it?
			Do you think the people are less intelligent or spiritual than you? Why not simply refer your students to the source that you yourself discovered? - my original Making Love tapes or the book based on them (it's available in several languages). And then get on with your own teaching without using me as a crutch?
			When my teaching is quoted, embellished or interpreted by another it loses its spiritual power to transform enduringly.
			Spiritually your students are seeking original knowledge. By basing your teaching on another authority you unwittingly confuse them. This makes you perversely indispensible; you are then needed to answer the students' questions which arise from the confusion you have created in them!
			It is a common practice for unoriginal teachers to combine my teaching with the teachings of other teachers and so present another confusing mishmash to the people, delaying their realisation even further. A frequent example is when followers of the master Osho mix his teaching on love and sex with mine, when the two teachings are utterly different. If Osho or any other teacher is your master, then you don't need me.
			A master's teaching should be complete in itself, as mine is.
			Then there is the frequent example of quoting my tantric words at such length that a blatant breach of copyright occurs. Truth cannot be copyrighted. But truth is original.
			If you have to quote someone else's originality then it is not your truth. And you can be in breach of the world's copyright laws, and face the consequences thereof, as an ironic price for your unoriginality.
			No one is authorised to run groups or teach in my name. No one speaks for me, not even in my organisation. I have no followers or disciples, no therapists or evangelical priests to misrepresent my message to the people.
			My teaching is always original, so it is always new, and I continue to impart the mystery of my God-given tantric knowledge to any man or woman who can hear me.
			© Barry Long 2000

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