Vajrahridaya

It seems hard to do it on the spot. It's been proven to me, more than once directly though I have no idea about this particular method by this name. It just seems to manifest naturally through meditative cultivation.

Well, there is no proof of your hypothesis in the way Buddhas manifest themselves. They certainly aren't emasculated in their actions. Even in their longevity. In fact, I dare say that your hypothesis is actually pretty ignorant and lacks intuitive study, not even that, it's just highly underinformed! "Emasculated!?" :lol: "39 The Siddha Babhaha, The Free Lover Pleasure! pleasure! unconditional pleasure! Unconditional desireless pleasure! Every thought-form perceived as pleasure! 0 what unattainable secret pleasure! Babhaha, Prince of Dhanjur, was intoxicated by the thrills of sensual pleasure. One day he spoke with a wise yogin who had come begging at the palace. The yogin inspired faith in him, and he asked for precepts to assist him in his sexual practice. "Consummation, the samaya, is the fountain of all mystical experience; the Guru is the source of all success," were the precepts the yogin gave him. He then bestowed the initiation that transfers grace upon the prince, and instructed him in the fulfillment yoga technique of psychic channels, vital energies and seed essence: In the lotus mandala of your partner, A superior consort, Mingle your white seed With her ocean of red seed. Then absorb, raise and diffuse the elixir And your ecstacy will never end. Then to raise the pleasure beyond pleasure Visualize it inseparable from emptiness. After twelve years of profound experience in this technique, the prince found that the obscurations of his vision had vanished, and he gained siddhi. He sang: As the king of geese Separates water from milk The Guru's precepts Draw up the ambrosial elixir He served his disciples well before eventually attaining bodily the Dakini's Paradise. Sadhana Babhaha is taught the fulfillment process technique called Eternal Delight in the Six Yogas of Naropa. The same result can be achieved with or without a partner, using someone else's body or using one's own body.109 The practice for the celibate yogin is described in Nalinapa's legend (40), and such use of sexual energy is considered more desirable in the Tibetan tradition. But the well known axiom "No mahamudra without karma-mudra," where the female consort is the karma-mudra, and the central place that this yoga holds amongst the fulfillment stage topics, indicates its significance. The tradition defines "the superior consort" in physical terms, employing the criteria of the Indian science of erotics, as explained in texts such as the Kamasutra: the padmini is the best partner. Regarding the yoga itself, psychic channels carry the vital energies that consist of seed-essence; and the essence of the yoga is the skill in controlling the subtle energies. First, energy is sent downward to the sexual center; second, with perfect control, male and female energy is intermingled under the power of retention; third, the elixir of pleasure and emptiness united is raised, like a goose drawing water out of milk, up the central channel; and fourth, it is diffused throughout the psycho-organism by the constantly bifurcating "capillary" channels. With the withdrawal of "pleasure and emptiness indivisible" up the central channel, the four levels of joy are experienced at the four main cakras, and by saturation of the body-mind, eternal delight is achieved, and ultimately rainbow body is possible. The technical description of the technique should not obscure the sine qua non of a "spiritual relationship" between the yogin and his consort. Although the female body is being used as a source of "nectar," without a totally open, empathetic and responsive relationship, the yoga will fail. Further, desirelessness is the key to success, and insofar as such a state cannot be attained by striving, the pleasure that results from consummation is "unattainable." Finally, as Babhaha's Guru implies at the beginning, this practice is physically and mentally dangerous and requires a skillful guide. The samaya he mentions can be interpreted in several ways, all of them equally vital: it may be maintaining the relative vows and commitments of the vajrayana, or of this specific practice; it may be the samaya, the body, speech and mind union, of Guru and Dakini where Vajrayogini is the Dakini; or it may be the fully empathetic responsiveness of yogin and yogini in their sexual encounter. Historiography The meaning of Babhaha can only be inferred from the Tibetan translation "He who draws water from milk" (T. Chu las 'o ma len), referring to the yogin's ability to suck up the essential female bodhicitta from the intermingling of nectars in the bhaga mandala into the central channel. There is an eastern belief that geese have the facility of sucking out water from milk, thus keeping the milkman honest. Babhaha, which could be onomatopoeic, is also spelled Bhalaha, Bhamva, Babhahi, Baha and Bapabhati. His home town of Dhanjur is unidentified, as is his Guru." -translated by Keith Dowman I see your theory as merely your theory based nothing but mis-interpretation of self gathered information. Of course a Buddhas goal is not merely longevity, even though plenty of them had it and have it. Because they see beyond or through the body, they don't see the passing away of the flesh as the end of their personal mind-stream. "Emasculated" :lol: Oh Ben, you are good for a laugh my man.

That would still be personal as a child still has individual traits, even though the state of awareness is more spontaneous and free from confining concepts. There is still the personal mind stream made up of a beginningless reservoir of past life experience, even though many of the traits will be hidden until the mind of the child starts manifesting it's concrete reflections through the physical medium it experiences karmically as the child grows up. It is said though that an enlightened one is merely being as a child with the awareness of responsibility.

Well, not according to Anthropologists. India has the oldest known system of martial arts in existence and it supposedly traveled to China long ago in the B.C. But, of course... most of this is just the conjecture of some, not all Anthropologists. Supposedly the Harappan Valley civilization created the first formalized martial arts style in an archaic form. This would be about 6,000 to 4,000 B.C. so that's about 8,000 or so years ago. So, I could be wrong, but you'd have to take it up with Anthropologists, not me. The Mahabharata supposedly tells a story that's even older and they mention this very early form of martial arts, but the story in the Mahabharata supposedly tells a story that's so B.C. based on areas that are most likely sunken and completely wiped away that Anthropologists cannot verify any of this. Though, they might have found the land bridge mentioned in one of the stories in the Puranas?

Yeah, I think he's saying there is no permanent omni-awareness that all things are. That would be Hindu interpretation of spiritual experience based on reifying deep states of Samadhi which the Buddha did not do. So, there is no "true self" in Buddhism in the sense that you just mentioned.

I don't know what you people are talking about and all this stuff about being stuck in a chakra, crown or heart!? Reiki works through and on the whole system and creates a powerful and calming field of positive energy which allows ones own physical system to do the inner healing both physically and emotionally. Reiki masters are awesome!! They are merely facilitators. Of course the deeper your own inner healing the better of a channel you will be for any type of healing of any sort of system. But, turning people away from getting Reiki atunement is just misguided!

Don't be, it's real. I can do it, not all the time and generally without trying... but it comes naturally when you develop the jhanas/samadhis in meditation. It's helped me in a few situations. p.s. On second thought... just be skeptical about your skepticism. Until you experience it yourself.

India is the most diverse country on the planet, with more languages than any other. As well as more religions than any other. India is a deeply amazing country, who in fact invented the martial arts in a form that went to China, and actually taught the Chinese many years B.C. But, of course China took the martial arts way further than India. Still, India is so spiritually rich and diverse in history, it's an amazing source of information and anthropological study.

I think what Alwayson means is pretty much what I said, that the term Hinduism is misleading and in fact, Advaita Vedanta or Vedanta as what is considered by the majority to be Hinduism these days is in fact quite a new development compared to Brahmanism, which is what was the majority religion in Buddhas' time and region. Hinduism is really a misleading term coined by I think the Brits? Really... Hinduism does not exist except as a new label throwing together all sorts of traditions that don't have the same ideas about reality, or the same source scriptures. Even the term Sanatana Dharma was stolen from the Dharmapala originally coined by the Buddha in reference to the Buddhadharma. But yes, if you are going to go with the current view that all religions from the Indus Valley are Hinduism, than from this definition, Buddhism as well is part of Hinduism... but, that as well would be totally misleading. From India, there is Shaktism, Shaivism of which there are many types that are very different with different source texts, Vedanta, Advaita Vedanta, Dvaita Vedanta, Brahmanism, Buddhism etc. etc. Only some of these have the same source scriptures and to call them all by one name is a common mistake in my opinion, but a heck of a lot easier than the truth.

The Hinduism that pre-dated the Buddha is very, very different from that which post dates the Buddha. Mostly what we see prier to the Buddha is Brahmanism, which is dealing with the godhead Brahma and the caste system theory where each caste is an emanation from one body part or another of the godhead Brahma and there is no escape from that bloodline. There were also fringe forms that were more shamanistic that did strange rituals and intense meditation techniques, many in the forest through severe renunciation. Some of the very early Upanishads do pre-date the Buddha and these are the types of Hinduism that the Buddha was around growing up through Brahmanism and Vedic assumption and astrology, then moving out of the palace into the forest to study the more fringe forms of Hinduism. Hinduism is not actually one religion and this is one of the worst things that the British has done for Indian spirituality, as Hinduism really just means those traditions born in the Indus valley or the Indu/Hindu Kush and south to Tamil Nadu. Now when you get down to Tamil Nadu, you get all sorts of interesting traditions of spirituality that are not Vedic and even plenty that are anti-vedic. You didn't get Advaita Vedanta until around the 900's when Shankaracharia systematically merged all the traditions of India under a single hypothesis of Brahman with many aspects of his theories taken directly from the teachings of Buddha and Nagarjuna, which is why his teachings are often dubbed by scholars as crypto-Buddhism. Yet, there were still plenty of Shakti cults and Shaivite cults that really didn't get into that. Some of these cults were even into human sacrifices and these crazy followers of the fierce forms of Shiva who went into villages and kidnaped people were called "thugies". Of course not all forms of Shaivism were this extreme. I'm just saying, it's quite multifarious, this "Hinduism." Hinduism is so very complicated, I dare say the most complicated spiritual tradition, because it's not just one tradition but many, many, many traditions that kind of all got swept under one rug called "hinduism" by the Brits. Also by Shankaracharia in the 900's. The Hinduism of ancient India prier to the Buddha is hardly known of by modern people, beyond Brahmanism that is. Supposedly, Brahmanism might have even been an invasion from Persia long, long ago? But, there are many theories... which are just that.

You might just want to balance your practice with some moving forms of meditation. You can do all sorts, both Taoist and Tibetan or Indian. Even some Hatha Yoga might be good for you, but I'm more of a fan of Yantra Yoga as it's fluid and specific in it's alignment of body with breath and energy, with nice specific breathing that goes a long with the movement of the physical postures. It also has Buddhist origins. Yantra Yoga Tibetan Yoga of Movement This video explains it better than I. It is the oldest recorded form of yoga in the world. By the way... I've experienced exactly what you are talking about... and yeah... it's strange, but nothing to be frightened by.

Have you been reading that Communist Chinese propaganda again? Have you even read any of the autobiographies or even stories from the regular people of Tibet who share their experience of being Tibetan before the atrocity of the Chinese invasion? They were generally speaking, very happy and free people, mostly serene due to freedom from all our worldly concerns. Happy to work hard and pursue their spirituality through the complete and wholly perfect path of Vajrayana. Because they didn't join the world in the race for material gains and accumulating a vast armory of weaponry, they are somehow in your mind, inferior? I find that the opposite is true. Also desire is well respected and utilized in Vajrayana for the purpose of self liberation through energetic inquiry and understanding. It is not repressed.

Yup... he's not establishing anything as a permanent ground of being, except impermanence. Quite in accord with Buddhist dialectic.

Yup, great post!

Wow!! No need for condoms either?? Ah... too late! Can I get my foreskin back if I apply now??

This is funny... But, it's true... one can't be a monotheist and a Buddhist at the same time. Not in the way monotheism is defined by religions that fit that dictionary definition. Also, to really be a Buddhist and follow the Buddhist way, you take refuge in the Buddha, dharma and sangha, but you don't take refuge in the Buddha in a monotheist sense, just in the sense of an enlightened guide that helps you to your own Buddhahood.

Most masters that spend lifetimes serving the masses have a tendency to take on the karmas of those masses. Those without the experience of such sensitivity and transparency might not understand this. ChNNR also teaches physical yoga and at one point was quite the master at it. His body never fully recovered from his Leukemia which was predicted by a mirror divination master from Tibet to be the end of him, and the exact date of his Leukemia was accurately predicted many years prier. But, he did retreat and practiced his Long Life Terma given to him during his lucid dream states by a passed on master and it worked. He also teaches that you'll find it hard to experience Rigpa if you can't even get into the 1st jhana in meditation, so he does recommend that people do Samatha (calm abiding meditation), of which he teaches various techniques. If you meet ChNNR in person, you realize that his inner state is far more important than his physical appearance and his inner state is tremendously powerful and intuitive. If you make the connection, as most people have a tendency to project all their own shit all over clean mirrors like Tulkus.

No denying the validity of this statement.

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Realize the empty nature of everything and neither concepts, nor non-concepts will grant any sort of issue and blockage. Cling to either/or and insight is not realized. There is always the whole "holding up the flower" metaphor with the Buddha on Vulture Peak. Still... people can always get caught up in various assumptions leading to extremes of either nihilism or eternalism if clarifying concepts were not engaged with the teaching. It seems that most spiritual practitioners get caught up in eternalism, as in "something inherently exists from it's own side eternally" even if non-conceptually, is still a hindering internal interpretation of meditative experience which carefully placed concepts can extinguish.

Danke schoen darling.

Both, only in meaning in the moment, as if I spoke the languages at the different times. In immediate retrospect upon awaking or arising from the cushion, I remember it being of different languages though. I can't remember having an Akashic experience for some time now though... I'm trying to think right now when the last time was. It's really just a dimension into which one may travel that may manifest in the actual form of a library with scrolls. This I do not remember so clearly in my own case. I remember reading scrolls or texts like you describe in another language, and I remember at the moment I remembered the meaning, even though this was only in retrospect... as later it resulted more of a feeling rather than conceptual information...

Yes they are. Dependent Origination is a subtler view than merely karma though. Anyway... "CHOD" (Cutting through or cutting away) Is a wonderful practice to help hungry ghosts. Chod was invented by a female Buddha. It has to do with creating a mind body as an offering to these spirits, empowered by compassion that they can eat up, thus eventually ending up liberating these spirits, both from you and themselves. It's a pretty nuanced practice incorporating mantra, mudra and visualization, as well as deep feeling.