My new and improved Taoist/Tantric sexual practice

[Songtsan]

Disclaimer: There are a few lines here that are by necessity explicit. If you are bothered by frank sexual imagery and discussion, please hit your back button.

 

 

Here is my newest practice which is generating more bliss/energy in me than ever before:

 

This works both with a partner, and by oneself, visualizing an ideal divine dakini/daka construct.

 

1) If you are with a real-life partner, it is recommended to be in either yab-yum or maithuna position.

2) If you are solo, simply visualize your divine construct that you are paired with in the appropriate sexual position.

3) Keep attention either equally divided between sex, heart, and mind areas (chakras, etc.), or else polarize into up/down locations during the appropriate point in the cycle, without closing your energy channels

4) Keep eye contact, or with eyes closed, touch third eye areas

5) synchronize breathing so that when one person exhales, the other inhales, etc. This step may be omitted, and just breath naturally - try both ways

6) exchange energy with your partner through crown chakra, or another option is to consider doing it as part of breath exchange - when one breathes out, send energy out, as other breathes in, absorb energy from partner

7) During your Yang channel rising stage, visualize ejaculating endlessly into your partners yoni, causing divine conception. If you are a man flex your penis muscles over and over as if you are coming. If you are a woman, flex your vaginal muscles over and over as if you are orgasming. Do this in tandem. Women should visualize becoming implanted/conceiving with divine manly essence at this time. Visualize orgasm, but do not allow yourself to come.

8) When you choose to send energy down Yin channel to cycle it in microcosmic orbit, change your genital identity to female. Men visualize having a vagina. Women are in opposite stage at this time (Yang stage), and visualize themselves as having a penis. Still flexing genitals (basically you never stop flexing), men now visualize themselves as conceiving, woman visualize themselves as impregnating and ejaculating. (thanks to Flofolil for this idea).

 

So basically, you decide on a rhythm to use before initiating practice - it could be a cycle of breathing based on counts, perhaps even to some music that has a steady easily countable beat. You alternate Yin/Yang...so that couples remain polarized. If you are same sex partnered, still do this same thing. You never stop visualizing orgasm/conception, you simply switch polarities depending on your point in the cycle. Always orgasming, always coming, always either impregnating or being impregnated, forming the divine conception, genitals changing from yoni to lingam over and over. Keep energy channels open and energy flowing up Yang, down Yin, do not focus on any one area for too long, keep linkage between body (especially sex center), heart, and mind open at all times. I haven't decided yet on any particular breath count or timing between Yin/Yang polarities...still working on that. I think it would be best to make it at least a few breath cycles to allow time for the energy to build before switching polarities.

 

For an extra added boost of yumminess, during Yang times, create a feeling of dominance/ownership, and during Yin times create a feeling of submission/being owned.

 

At end of practice, send energy into dantien elixir field and circle it to store it here.

 

Another thing is to visualize your real-life partner as divine in all aspects. It also would be a good idea to have a sacred area set up which has a divine atmosphere. See my post in Ralis' art thread about setting up a divine space.

Edited July 12, 2013 by Songtsan

[Songtsan]

Also, it would generate extra bliss to imagine your ejaculate as being divine sperm related to amrita nectar which has divine qualities enabling it to penetrate/flow up into the uterus past the cervix and through the divine fallopian tubes into the divine ovaries and magically impregnating divine eggs. Use divine colors as well - gold, glowing white, etc. of your choice in order to divinize everything. Similarly, make the penis divine, a glowing rod, etc. Also make the bodies divine - everything glowing with divine light. This is all visualization intense work, the purpose being to produce as much ecstasy as possible. I think that when the cycle starts becoming automated, you could even fuse everything into a glowing column of light which is connected at the genitals, and reconnected up top either at the third eye, or at crown chakra. Use the Vajrasattva combo imagery to embellish.

[RongzomFan]

since you are bringing up Vajrasattva, I have to say that both people need empowerments for karmamudra.

 

Very few non-lamas are trained in this stuff.

 

Probably the only openly published information is in the Secret Teachings of Padmasambhava and Taking the Result as the Path.

 

Basically it involves mulabandha, contracting the abs, touching tongue to palate and rolling eyes up.

[Songtsan]

since you are bringing up Vajrasattva, I have to say that both people need empowerments for karmamudra.

 

Very few non-lamas are trained in this stuff.

 

Probably the only openly published information is in the Secret Teachings of Padmasambhava and Taking the Result as the Path.

 

Basically it involves mulabandha, contracting the abs, touching tongue to palate and rolling eyes up.

 

Empowerments are great and useful, I don't disagree, but they are not always necessary in my opinion. If one has an awakened Kundalini especially, you automatically have all empowerments to practice anything, as in my experience, the Kundalini is the highest authority, beyond any lama. Systems which use visualizations are very similar in nature to self-hypnosis. I am and will always be, a nontraditionalist. Holding to a belief system that one needs empowerments is self-limiting in my view. I will never think anything other than this, even if Buddha himself appeared before me and disagreed with me.

[RongzomFan]

but then anyone can set themselves up as a teacher.

[BaguaKicksAss]

Alwayson, I'm curious how the empowerments would change this, and what would be the drawbacks to not having them? (please bear in mind I know nothing of empowerments, at least not called that).

 

The reason I'm curious is that I know of many people who practice very similar rituals, and have myself as well, though Songstan you do go into more depth/detail .

[Songtsan]

but then anyone can set themselves up as a teacher.

 

and why not? Do you truly believe that no one can experience enlightenment without a teacher? Do we not all have Buddha nature at some level? Also, if you believe in reincarnation, then how do you know that we haven't all had thousands of teachers since time memorial? I intend to set myself up as a teacher some day, and I belong to no tradition now, although I have before.

[RongzomFan]

Alwayson, I'm curious how the empowerments would change this, and what would be the drawbacks to not having them? (please bear in mind I know nothing of empowerments, at least not called that).

 

 

How else are going to know how to do Buddhist karmamudra practice?

 

If this thread is not about Buddhist karmamudra practice, then ignore all my comments. I did see Vajrasattva mentioned.

[RongzomFan]

I belong to no tradition now

 

That's fine then. Leave Vajrasattva out.

[Songtsan]

I don't practice traditional Vajrasattva, just the essence of it, which is man/woman mergence, i.e. yab yum. The idea is out there, I absorbed the idea, and I am it. So I would say no I do not do karmamudra, but yes I am/aim to be Vajrasattva. Or Avolakitesvara. No group of people in the world, no matter how old their tradition, hold any monopoly on anything spiritual whatsoever, in my opinion. Anything that is out there, I can attain. This is my firm belief.

[Songtsan]

That's fine then. Leave Vajrasattva out.

 

You want me to cut a piece of my heart out?

 

Listen, I am not interested in arguing something like this. My spiritual beliefs are my own. Vajrasattva stays.

Edited July 13, 2013 by Songtsan

[BaguaKicksAss]

How else are going to know how to do Buddhist karmamudra practice?

 

If this thread is not about Buddhist karmamudra practice, then ignore all my comments. I did see Vajrasattva mentioned.

 

Oops, I was going a bit off topic there (without realizing). Perhaps a few different paths have similar things.

[RongzomFan]

whatever

[Songtsan]

whatever

 

sorry that I don't meet your expectations...good thing I don't have to please everybody, or else I would never get any sleep.