Tantra

Tantra teaches us to relate tho things as they are.  It teaches us to relate to all of life from the awakened state.  The true view of Tantra sees that there is nothing but the Divine in all things, and the teaching is to relate to everything as Divinity.  It is relating to pleasure, and relating to pain in their most basic, real, original way.  Tantra is challenging in that includes an ever-expanding view of reality, and yet remains intimately aware of the unchanging, formless ground that is eternal reality.  It neither hides out in the transcendent realms, nor is it just a puppet to worldly existence,--it is awake, vibrantly lucid and clear and undisturbed. 
Tantra isn't a philosophy or belief system, it is to relate directly to your experience in a way that is wholehearted, complete, and total.  It doesn't solve our problems for us, if anything it gives us more to deal with in that we don't have any spiritual escape from life.  Tantra has as its basis sanity,  reality, and truth.  It seeks to annhilate spiritual misunderstanding,  it seeks to eradicate loftiness, it seeks to turn our attention toward everything. 
Tantra is simply being involved in life, not just practically, or efficiently, or cunningly, but wholly and entirely.  In Tantra, we have no place to go, nothing to achieve, nothing to realize..Life itself becomes the whole message being related all the time.  Relating to life is what most of us have not yet begun to do because we're still trying to figure out what it means to be spiritual, Tantra teaches us that being spiritual is being touched by life as it appears.  It is no escape, no comfort, no reliable philosophy.  It is the removal of any addition to the already perfect stream of life.  With nothing in the way, we have the true freedom to cry, to explode, and to dance.