A Personal Odyssey

“Reflection Eternal” by Nujabes off “Modal Soul”

Contemplative on the improbability
Of achieving this human reality. 
Reflective in actuality, 
Life not a terrestrial odyssey.
Journey of spiritual kind,
Being master of mind.

On Being

Ultimately pure awareness.
Consciousness resides the nexus,
Of infinite space and time. 
This has always been. 
This will always be. 
Death release this inner awareness,
From confines of time-emergent mind.  

Semantics

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Who Buddhist finds refuge in Buddha, the Dharma, and Sangha. 
Jain Tirthankara, Agamas, Sangha.
Christian in Christ, the Gospels, and Church.
Muslim in Allah, Quran, sharia.
If Jewish in YHWH, the Torah, and nation.
Who practices Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism: in Shiva, Vishnu, Shakti; the Sruti the Smriti; and spiritual community.

Peace of Mind

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Selections from the
Holy Bible
King James Version

Genesis 3

19 “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 
till thou return unto the ground; 
for out of it wast thou taken: 
for dust thou art, 
and unto dust shalt thou return.”

Luke 22

15 And he said unto them, “With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.”
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.”
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

Luke 22

39 And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.
40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them, “Pray that ye enter not into temptation.”
41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
42 Saying, “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”
43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
46 And said unto them, “Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.”

Luke 23

46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.”

Luke 24

35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, “Peace be unto you.”

Luke 9

60 Jesus said unto him, “Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.”

Why sleep ye? Rise and pray.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Peace be upon me.  
Peace be upon thee.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

In Shadow of Babel

Reality ultimately 
Singularity. 
Similitude 
Interpretations vary,
With multitude 
Vocabularies. 

“The Tower of Babel” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563.

On Arks

Diluvian Ark we never left,
And are carried by it yet. 
Ark of the Covenant, 
Who merciful convey it, 
And are never apart.
For it resides the Tabernacle
Of Compassionate Heart,
Blessed Vessel the Sacrament.  

“The Creation” by Jacques Joseph Tissot. (c. 1896-1902) 

The Bliss of Inner Fire (outline)

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“The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa” (1998, 2014)
A Commentary on Je Tsongkhapa’s
Having the Three Convictions: A Guide to the Stages of the Profound Path of the Six Yogas of Naropa
By Lama Yeshe
Outlines to full text and (editorial) guide to application of practice herein. 

Full Outline

Foreword by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Editors’ Preface
Introduction by Jonathan Landaw

Prayer to the Lineage Lamas of the Six Yogas of Naropa 

PART ONE: THE SIX YOGAS OF NAROPA
1. Tantra and Inner Fire
2. The Six Yogas and the Mahasiddha Naropa
3. The Mahasiddha Je Tsongkhapa
PART TWO: PRELIMINARY PRACTICES
5. Preparing the Mind
i. Common Preliminaries
ii. Unommon Preliminaries
6. Receiving Initiation
7. Purifying Negativities
8. The Inspiration of the Guru
PART THREE: GOING BEYOND APPEARANCES
9. Transforming Death, Intermediate State, and Rebirth
i. Necessity to first practice Evolutionary Stage Yoga
ii. Bringing the three Kayas into the path
10 Arising as a Divine Being
11. The Characteristics of Body and Mind
i. Characteristics of the body
ii. Characteristics of the mind
12. Unifying Relative and Absolute
PART FOUR: AWAKENING THE VAJRA BODY
13. Hatha Yoga
14. Channels and Chakras
i. Sitting
ii. Empty body meditation
iii. Channels
iv. Chakaras
v. Training in the channels
15. Blissful Syllables
16. Vase Breathing Meditation
i. Dispelling impure airs
ii. Vase breathing
PART FIVE: DISCOVERING TOTALITY
17. Inner Fire Meditation
i. Preparing for Inner Fire
ii. Igniting the Fire
ii. Blazing the Inner Fire
iv. Blazing and Dripping
v. Extraordinary Blazing and Dripping
18. Good Things and Bad Things Can Happen
i. Don’t intellectualize
ii. Inner heat, outer heat
iii. Bliss and nonduality
iv. Uncontrolled kundalini
v. Telepathic experiences
v. Let Go
19. Simultaneously Born Great Blissful Wisdom
i. Causing the wind to enter, stabilize, absorb
ii. The four joys
iii. Simultaneously born great blissful wisdom
20. Becoming Vajradhara
i. Embracing a consort
ii. The other five yogas
PART SIX: LIVING WITH INNER FIRE
21. Your Pleasure Is Your Responsibility
i. Judging by your own experience
ii. Your Pleasure Is Your Responsibility
22. Never Forget Inner Fire
APPENDIX 1: Sanskrit Pronunciation Guide
APPENDIX 2: Table of Foreign Word Transliterations
APPENDIX 3: Outline of Having the Three Convictions

Editorial guide to application of practice

Setting Motivation Prayer pg.141
1) Preparing for Inner Fire pgs. 133-135
A. Sitting pgs. 103-104
B. Unifying with Emptiness pgs. 89-94
C. Arising Devine pgs. 75-82
i. The Channels pgs. 104-105
ii. The Chakras pgs. 106-109
iii. Blissful Syllables pgs. 113-117
2) Igniting the Fire pgs. 135-136
A. Vase Breathing pgs. 122-124
3) Blazing the Inner Fire pgs. 137-138
4) Blazing and Dripping pgs. 138-140
5) Extraordinary Blazing and Dripping pgs. 140-141
6) The Four Joys pgs 158-160
Dedication Prayer pg.141

Chakra Visualization Aid (Tummo)

From “The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa
By Lama Yeshe
Part Four: Awaking the Vajra Body 
Chapter 15: Blissful Syllables 

“[In meditation] placing seed-syllables in the chakras is vital to generating the four blisses.”

HAM
White, upside down

Crown
Contemplating the HAM at the crown increases the white male kundalini, which is the source of bliss.

OM
Red

Throat
Contemplating and penetrating the OM at the throat chakra increases the female blood energy and also helps the practice of dream yoga. 

HUM
Blue, upside down

Heart
Concentrating on the HUM at the heart helps to develop the clear light. 

A (short A)
Bright Red

Navel
Meditating on the short A at the navel increases the strength of the inner fire; it also increases the white blissful energy, because of the navel chakra’s link with the left channel. Activating inner heat at the navel chakra automatically causes energy to come to the crown chakra.


Accompanying each syllable are a crescent moon, a drop, and fine sharp nada. (Nada is a Sanskrit term that sometimes refers to nonduality.)

While we should become familiar with all the chakras, remember that the inner fire at the navel is the key to the realizations of all the chakras.

kundalini (Skt). In Tibetan tigle, drops; blissful energy; also referred to as bodhicitta. Red and white subtle liquid energy that exists throughout the channels of the body, the red predominating at the navel chakra and the white at the crown chakra.