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.
A Personal Odyssey
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
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.
In Shadow of Babel
Reality ultimately
Singularity.
Similitude
Interpretations vary,
With multitude
Vocabularies.
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.
Philosophy as Praxis
Succumb,
With love and wisdom,
To mind awaken.
Conclusion
Therein,
View, path, fruition,
As one,
Are won.
The Bliss of Inner Fire (outline)
“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
Chakra Visualization Aid (Vedic)
Companion to: On Chakras with emphasis on Manipura
Meditation On Mediative Mind
There are two aspects of mind:
- True nature of mind, which is pure awareness, clean and clear, luminous void. (akin space)
- Dualistic mind, which perceives conceptions, subject and object. (akin field and charge)
The “I” is emergent the mind-stream of dualistic mind’s consciousnesses.
Mediative meditation can be sustained by focusing the mind on an objective (a mental object: such as an image; a mandala; a mantra; etc…, a physical object, an activity: such as archery; hatha yoga; breathing; etc…, etc…). Therein focusing, directing, and thus gaining control of the mind and stream.
Meditative absorption begins to develop when the object of mind is on the subject, the mind itself, and a conceptual understanding of its nature emerges. Mind that aspires to awaken.
Pure Awareness is attained on clearing the mind, and thus without effort sustained. Mind awaken.
Trinity
Humanity
Threshold
Infinity,
Foundation
Divinity.