Most of us have some relationship with the word tantra — even if what we carry is more myth than understanding. It moves through popular culture as something exotic or transgressive, rarely landing close to what the tradition actually is: a complete science of consciousness, a living map of the inner world, a path that does not ask you to leave ordinary life behind but to wake up within it. Meditation is at the centre of this path. Of all the tantrik tools, it is the most imp