“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
D. Empty Body Meditation pg. 104
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
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