CINA: RIGHT METHOD

Known as the 'leap' method of enlightenment, the fastest and most immediate available in this physical form. The accelerated program is held in some disdain by the orthodox religions, as it promotes the opposite of their dogmatic leaning on abstenance. Where vegetarianism, sobriety and chastity are key to these faiths, Tantric ritual has been to known to involve wine, meat and sexual excitement.

It is also embedded in esoteric symbolism, permitting Tantric ideas to be expressed while using the symbols of other religions. The serpent is a serpent no matter what religion. By assigning a specific Tantric symbolism to the serpent [inherent energy] that message may be expressed while the layperson views little more than a mythic beast.

Cina promises to be conductive to nearly every type of success that an adherent might seek, including enlightenment. What it does not offer is a ticket off the great wheel of rebirth, Samsara. Only Buddhism makes this claim, and the alternative to living another incarnation is extinction... Cina offers:

Creature comforts [kama]. Secular success [artha]. Religious merit, or a more saintly nature and a better incarnation [dharma].

What it does not provide is moksha, the 'supreme human goal' of extinction.

In essence, Cina would seem to be a preperation for the soul, to attain a true state of mystical pursuit, while not detaching one's self from this world. This is probably why Tantra has been popular for so many centuries. A waiter, who works and provides for his family may once a year at some festival dance three miles in a trance state wearing the spears of Shiva alongside his guru and fellow practitioners. He does not feel the necessity for monkhood in order to experience mystical state. The goal of at some future point tying together successive lifetimes of nearing a state of esoteric sublimity.

Cina exists to secure a life of spiritual evolution, and to simultaneously draw upon its rewards and reinforcements to lead a fruitful life.