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Harnessing Energies: The Tantric Journey

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The talk is an in-depth exploration of the "abbreviated exposition of the panel," focusing on the practice of the path with three stages: preparation, actual practice, and conclusion. Key elements include the manipulation of bodily winds, specific physical postures, and the visualization techniques associated with energy control. Detailed instructions are provided for bodily exercises, breathing patterns, and the management of subtle energies during tantric practices.

  • Seven Aspects of Vairocana: Mentioned as a similar practice to preliminary concentration techniques, essential for preparation in energy control practices.
  • Four Kisses: Referenced as a technical term related to achieving the integration of bliss and emptiness, indicative of advanced stages of the discussed tantric practice.
  • Yonimudra: An Indian Hatha Yoga technique, presented as a corresponding practice in the text which involves specific mudras that aid in controlling subtle energies.
  • Emptiness and Bliss: Highlighted as the ultimate recognition achieved through successful tantric practice, pivotal to understanding the aim of the discussed path.

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And then tonight, on page 459-5, we're going to do the abbreviated exposition of the panel. Ready? So now as for the second category, that is the abbreviated exposition, practice of the path. So there are, as for the abbreviated practice of the path, there are three parts. There's preparation, the actual, and the conclusion. And there are practices associated with each of those. For the preparation, there's the preparation concerns the downward wading wind.

[01:08]

The actual practice concerns rejoining the descent of the tigli at one time. So the actual practice concerns performing both the descent of the draw as well as the holding of the draw at the same time. Then the conclusion is the explanation of how to not expel the drop. So, as for the first of those three, which is the preliminary concerning the downward expelling wind.

[02:13]

Yes, . Do I have to suppose that? Okay. Sounds like an unknown. Okay. So, first, one does the preliminaries of concentration, which is kind of similar, though not identical. It's mentioned many times previously, but it's similar, but not identical to the seven aspects of Wairocina.

[03:17]

And then, one does the the activities with respect to the body, and those include, one imagines the right hand at this time. Do you want to demonstrate this? Look like this. Come back and actually show it on you. Cover you up, just me, right? Yeah. So the... Oh, here. I'm still in there. Sure. You have to... So your right hand is the sun and the left hand is the moon and cross them and you cover the knees. Then one does a short room and a long room to the front nine times.

[04:22]

and then to the right and then to the left three times each and then exhale three times and then inhale three times kind of repeating the cycle Well, I can't turn it around. Yeah, actually, a few times I guess it was do one after another uninterruptedly, which is kind of more of a commentary. Kind of repeat them. And then... Oh, yeah. And then if you perform that for three days, then for the males in the audience, your genitals may actually kind of like retract into a cavity in your body.

[05:36]

So, I'm saying, do you want to have, you know, one of the things that's kind of come up about this class is that in the Guineas class, very clearly, you know, what to go home and do. And we have all these extensive practices here, and we kind of go through them and let them people in schools, you know, all of the extra days. So can we just go through this ourselves? Yeah. We want each one? Yeah, maybe a bunch of people. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. So... First, one should nourish oneself, or nourish one's body. The little term in Tibetan here is calm, or elements. So the notion of your health is dependent on the elements of your body.

[06:41]

And so one should nourish the elements by means of nutritious food. kind of retire to a place that's at an elevation. A place at a great height and kind of take your seat there. So then imagine that the palms or in the palms of your hands are a sun and lean right and left respectively. And then cross those over and cover your knees. And then practice with long and short

[07:49]

And then three very short breaths, one after another. Okay. And in that manner, First you practice three times to the right and then three times to the front and then three times to the left. You do three breaths each in each of those directions. So then again, you do three times in the front in Kali, long and short.

[09:05]

And then for that, so then when exhales, three times one after another. So that was what you do with your breath. Now, as for the lateral points of what you should do with your mind, One should inhale into the central channel all of the winds and the purified elements and imagine that you're just like you're drinking from a straw.

[10:13]

So like you're sipping from a straw. So if you practice in that manner, even for three days, then as a sign of gaining power over the downward voiding wind, You, in the literal translation, you have the ability, you know, what actually happens is that your genitals kind of retract up into kind of a cavity of your body or alternately that your penis becomes shorter. So if through practicing like that, you get a headache, or alternatively you become nauseous, then you should relax, and there's a kind of idiomatic expression here, the path of the yaksha, which means the anus.

[11:35]

You should relax the anus. And if you have, in translation here, kind of natural translation here is a little bit different from the book. It's hard to tell what was on the mind of the woman you took. But if you have heat in the heart, or ultimately if you have, like, inability to urinate or constipation, then you should get up and walk. Get up and down, right? So let's do this for me. Oh, okay.

[12:44]

Oh, that's a good one. It's only Douglas. You want to demonstrate the little Sokpo? The... Well, the little Sokpo... Douglas? There's a couple different things I've seen from East Sokpo. No, they're here. One in... One in... Oh, there. Last one. Yeah. One is like what? That's right. but I've also, let's just move so forward. That's right, that's what here says, the children are actually used for your butt, butt. Yeah, so kind of make it public for at least five hours. Right, so then I'll have your needs in front of you. You know what you need in front of me? How do you do it?

[13:46]

I don't think you'll get any cold beer. There's another practice. Yeah, but there's all different ones that are appropriately different. I think that's a different one. I guess that's right. Yeah. Now your ricochet has his right hand on top. Yeah. Kind of like that. And then I'll do the breathing now. Okay, well, and that's the hot pot. It's a hard pot. It is a hard pot. All right. Take the Navy's cape here. Get ready. There's a little tumor coming up here.

[14:48]

We should always do it. Yeah, I'd love to. I don't understand what it is that we're doing. Yeah, we'll do it all together. We're doing very often. We'll take this one. Make the bread. There's three. There's three. Three to each. I'll go with you. We're in this together. Come on. I think so. When I find out for that, no one told me anything about that. But, you know, that's one of the major marks of the Buddha, the retraction of the genital. What? Is it major or is it minor? But it's one of the... So that would kill... I don't know if I think you could do that.

[15:50]

Do those exercises. What? It's hard to do that. And then through this also, that will also have to hold the tinnuit. Do it in time I used. So then one blushes the space of the genital about the consort as well as yourself and then you do this practices which we went over before of the equalizing of the body, equalizing of the speech and so forth.

[17:01]

Yes. [...] of the nature of yourself and the consort. You should point out, the three, sometimes it turns out, but I think you have the three remembrances. Then you join together the penis and the vagina and begin to place friction between them. So I guess we'll just start to practice that maybe one more time. You escaped. No, we're here. Yeah.

[18:06]

Is that what you're saying? I won't say. Okay. and then through the fire of passion that arises from the rubbing of the genitals of the drop descent. If one comes to possess the four kisses, which is some technical term that we couldn't find, handle it quickly, then one recognizes the primordial wisdom of the co-emergent bliss and emptiness. So why don't we go through that slowly.

[19:10]

So, in terms of the practice, the actual practice, we've got that now. That's the coordinators leading up to the joining of the the genitals here. And then in terms of the results of that, there is this technical term, the four kisses. Four kisses are you both? Yeah, that's just, I don't think so. That's just one thing. This is four... Well, there's a bit of a principle in touching four different kisses. Yeah. Four kisses, yeah. Keeping your father at four kisses. Yeah, it's got to be more than a marriage. So we'll find it. But in any case, the quote says, if one possesses those four kisses, then one recognizes the primordial wisdom, primordial wisdom of the co-emergent,

[20:17]

the co-emergent of the bliss and emptiness. So one recognizes the primordial wisdom of the co-emergent bliss and emptiness. So at that time, in order to avoid the dropping or loose, expoing of the drop or You know, the drop will just fall out, basically, if you don't hold it. So in order to avoid that, one squeezes a little bit or one clenches a little bit the mouth of the yaksha. So that's a distinction between important information. We're translating the path of the yaksha as the rectum and the mouth of the yaksha as the anal sphincter. Right? You're the expert here. So then, one puts...

[21:41]

One's index finger, and what's this called, forefinger? Index finger and middle finger. Middle finger. The index finger. The forefinger. The index finger and the forefinger. Okay, so for each one's right and left hand, one takes the index finger and the middle finger individually, places them in one's mouth, and kind of pulling the tongue back, sucks on them. Mm-hmm. But it's not drawing it, creating a section. Yeah, like Milton. Yeah, that's the commentary. Earlier it was just kind of reverse. Let's see the commentary on it. Then, uh, then, uh, so then you kind of pull it out.

[22:41]

And then your two eyes didn't look up. Yeah. Right. The two eyes look up? Treating the chair best. This is why you're creating the friction. You're doing the thought. What do you do that? Treat simultaneously while you're... With cancer? Yeah, with a consult. Without a consult, even. Treating the chair best. Take a seat. and then if one does these kind of simultaneously one will hold on to a drop otherwise and otherwise one can do this ha ha recitation very energetically and that will also hold the drop Then one can ask for those exercises or yantras of the body and those are just like what were previously mentioned much earlier in the text and with that one can join and stop the upper wind

[24:07]

So then in that manner, there are three different movements of the body. There is one movement of speech and there is the stopping of the upper wind. And then through these three different kind of stages, Then one will hold the drop without it. Degenerating sounds wrong, and drop dropping sounds awkward, but I think one will be able to hold without expelling the drop. Now as for the conclusion... So when the section begins with a verse, without stating where the verse is from, did Murchin write these verses, or is he collecting them from somewhere?

[25:23]

He collected them from somewhere. Yeah, so he collected the verses. So it sounds a lot nicer in Tibetan than it's going to in translation, but one makes the kind of sound of an elephant on the grunt of a female tiger one vomits like a wild beast and sniffs like a fox and in that manner from navel to heart and heart to throat and then gradually one draws it to the crown one spreads in the body the state of the aspect of liberation So there are these successive stages of things that you do now to cause the drop to break.

[26:27]

I think Michael was just asking that we go through the whole thing again. Is that right? Just from the conclusion of the elephant. You are right, yeah. Okay, so there's the sound of the elephant. There's the grunt of the female tigerus. There's the vomiting of a wild beast and the sniffing of a fox. So that's four. And then that tells how it goes. The navel, the heart, the throat, and the crown. Starting, of course, at the genital contact. The genital area is the navel, the navel, the heart. And it does it by means of these four similes. We actually make those now. Yeah, it's going to be explained a little bit more here in the commentary. Yeah. This part of it.

[27:32]

uh so one squats with the upper part uh of the of the leg feet feet sorry upper part of the feet on the ground just what i was showing before and then the heel should lift up and then that that's what actually um kind of uh provides the the the basis of the weight of the body. Okay, what's the need of nose? Nose, one crosses the Vajapong at one's heart. How do you fit? Vajapong's Vajapong at the heart. Right over left. Yep. So then with the sound with that tone, then one draws the drop up to the navel area.

[28:48]

So we're talking about this very immense sound of an elephant and all that stuff, but now we're going to say exactly what goes. It's not the elephant. How's it going? How are you doing? And then now... Well, this is supposed to be grunting, so... I'm sorry. Oh, sorry. You're not looking at the back. Well, we're on page 46195 and looking at the syllables, Mike.

[29:49]

Oh, yeah, okay. Well, maybe I shouldn't... It works like this. Yeah, maybe like that. You can ask... You can ask... What's he doing? What's he doing now? He won't know too much. No, he can explain now, right?

[30:50]

Is that the next door hard? Yeah. Oh, that's the title. Oh, sure, I need a chance. Then come to the art. Yeah, I'll be there. And do you know? Just looking for this, I think I found the four kids that was in there. What is that? 334. What about that? In the middle of the last parable. 34? 334, yeah, kind of in the middle of the last parable. Around that time, the world's first signs of holding the droplets after having searched the rain. In self-nature, it's about 8. One should enter the union through the threefold receptions.

[31:56]

Both the Vajra and Lotus to kiss. The Vajra and Lotus to kiss. The two secret veins to kiss. The droplets to kiss. And the two heirs to kiss. These are known as the instructions on the four kisses. And there's footnote 434. That's good. Very good. Thanks. Okay. Okay. I think what Frank was saying is that he knew it was the first one.

[33:11]

Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm all from that. You know what happened when you spent all day with A. Now you can go to me while... This is what we ordered. Yeah, let me see. Like vomiting. The cat. The cat. The cat. Is that the hot dog? Oh, no. Hot dog. [...] Hot dog Hot. Hot. Hot. So this, uh... Hot. Hot? This last one here, Keith, is supposed to be more like a stem. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's important to get the kind of upward movement in the head.

[34:14]

Okay, listen to the hot pot. Then you move your neck up. So the last step after that is your neck. Yeah. And then... uh one holds the wind with the um uh the mudra of the liberated lion which i have for my notes from laundry since this one is actually used this text at this point because it was more complete than the lobshe instructions which is the thumb in the ear the index in the eye in the middle of the nose the

[35:17]

ring at the lips and the little finger up there. Yep. And if you look at the breath at that time. And if you look at a book on Indian Hatsayoga, that'll be called Yonimutu. What's it called? Yonimutu. It's the same thing, huh? Yeah. Yoni. Yoni. Y-O-N-I. Okay. Y. Y-O-N-Y. So one's body and head, one should shake.

[36:35]

And then very kind of energetic. So after you've done the yoni medret, holding the breath, shake your body and exhale. And then with that, the drop is made to pervade the entire body. Now, as for the practice of that path, there are four unskilled things which can occur which are to be abandoned. So there are four things which you should abandon. So with respect to the unskillful dropping, there's the... So maybe to do better English here, with respect to the unskilled descent of the drop, there's letting the drop

[37:49]

expel quickly. And then if one is unskilled in holding then there will be very little bliss. And if one is unskilled in reversing then you may lose the drop while urinating. And if you're unskilled at spreading, then you can actually become ill. That's associated with the four stages of descending, holding, reversing and spreading. Now with regard to those, there are also four antidotes.

[38:53]

So with respect to, sorry, so for the four antidotes, there's being skillful about the descending, which is to have the gait of a tortoise. And then there's, to be skilful about holding, there's the three movements of body and one movement of the speech, which were mentioned earlier. Okay, and... And then to be skillful about reversing, one does those four sounds of the animals that you described up there.

[40:00]

And then in order to be skillful about pervading, then there is the binding with the belt of the, sorry, binding the, binding the belt of the wind by means of that, uh, uh, lion neighbor, which we described. What were the three moments of the body of this beach that I hated to put it? Do you know what it's already? Uh, the three, three moments of the body, uh, What did you say? That was the expelling and the creed corrections. Oh, okay. Yeah. And then the one in the speech was at that time we do the ha-ha, ha-ha. That's just the one in the speech.

[41:01]

Okay. All right. Are you okay to the tortoise? G-A-I-T, the walk of the tortoise. G-A-I-T. Walk like a tortoise. You cannot walk like an Egyptian on the tortoise. Do the walk. You walk like a tortoise. You're about to do it. [...] The gate of the tortoise is kind of... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [...] no. So ready to do... I'll get to this one in the chair.

[42:05]

What? Slowly. Yeah, that's the one I did. Standing slowly. Yeah, and then shifting this up. Yeah. I think they have a control sheet, probably control sheet. Yeah. Yeah. Also, for teeth. For [...] teeth. No. Then, in terms of actually rising up from the session, one does that just as in the practices naturally earlier. So...

[43:08]

So this is a practice session. So they described how you do all the practice sessions. So they said, excuse me, well, now, how do we get up from the session? And they said, well, we'll do that just the way we get up from sessions all the time. So there's been many, there's been a new hundreds of practice sessions described so far. And that's for the instruction for the practice session. Can you stop there? No, you have a sense. So we stopped on page 462, line 2. I wonder if there are any other versions that's called? Videos or... I don't know, maybe technical drawing. This is your big chance, Frank. The appeal is wide open. I don't know. That would be... I don't know.

[44:09]

That's what we're talking about. Something informative now.

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