Aum Gung Ganapathaye Namah
Namo tassa bhagavato
arahato samma-sambuddhassa
Homage to The Blessed One, Accomplished and Fully Enlightened
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful
Tantric Buddhism
A Collection of Articles, Notes and References
Chapter 1
(Revised:
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"... Freely you received, freely give”.
- Matthew 10:8 :: New American Standard
Bible (NASB)
1 “But mark this: There will be terrible
times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love,
unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having a form of godliness
but denying
its power. Have nothing to do with
them.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed
Moses, so also these
men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men,
their folly
will be clear to everyone.”
-
2 Timothy 3:1-9 ::
New International Version (NIV)
6 As he saith
also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever
after the order of Melchisedec.
- Hebrews 5:6 :: King James Version
(KJV)
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Author's
note: Because of the subject of this writing, some readers may find the
following writings objectionable.
Rating:
Contains eroticism.
The
purpose of this writing is to remove certain misconceptions about pure tantric
Buddhism.
In pure
form of tantric Buddhism, there is no sex or masturbation involved. Semen or
cum/pre-cum never leaves the body.
Then
why the advanced lamas use images of the female naked form?
Due to
file-size constraints, I haven’t provided any picture images. Click on the
following links to view some advanced lamas and their respective female
“deities”.
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Vajrayogini/Varahi
- Krodha Kali (black)
Troma
Nagmo (Sanskrit:
Krisna Krodhini. English: the Fierce Black One), a
wrathful form of Vajravarahi.
The
original practice lineage belongs to the
"From the pure, unborn, dharmadhatu palace; Fierce Vajra
Black One, performing the benefit of beings; Entire treasure of all excellent
and common attainments; Powerful Mistress, to you I bow." (Nyingma Liturgical verse).
Lineage from
(Reference: Vajrayogini/Varahi -
Krodha Kali (black))
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Diverse
reasons.
The concept the moving energy, sex energy to the Kundalini.
In their nakedness they do not emanate sexuality. On the contrary, they control, inhibit the sexual 'vibrations', retaining its energy so it can be mystically transformed into psychic and spiritual power.
…not just retention of the sexual energy, but forcing it back, and 'up'. Put in simplistic yoga 'mechanics': keeping the penis down so the kundalini may rise.
(Reference: Sadhu
sects.)
Imagine
a normal man as well as a man who watches pornography.
What
difference between the two?
The
normal man is at the same state of energy.
The one who watches pornography is heated up, sexually charged. Sex energy is charged up, concentrated in a very short time.
If such
a charged up man, sits in meditation and sends the charged energy up to Kundalini,
the benefit obtained is higher than what a normal man does.
Eroticism
as depicted in the drawings help, provided
you are an adept in meditation. You can even
critically observe movies like Striptease, depicting erotic dancing, table dancing etc.
Many a
man who gets charged up in today’s environment waste the charged sex energy
through leakage (emission/masturbation/sex). If they are practitioners of
meditation, instead of taking the vital liquid out, spiritual benefits through
the tantric path could have been achieved.
That is
the one of the main reasons.
Minor
reasons exist.
You are
used to female naked beauty of all sorts of imaginable form, which one can
attribute to beauty, through imagination/visualization.
Being
used to, inside out, through imagination with accompanying meditation to
prevent leakage.
Always
remember in tantrism, for beginners, you can consider leakage as a form of
measurement for your progress. No leakage, for perfection, for ideal state.
Vocabulary
Tantrism n.
1: movement within Buddhism combining elements
of Hinduism and paganism [syn: Tantrism]
2:
doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the
oneness of one's self and the visible world;
combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including magical and mystical
elements like mantras and mudras and erotic rites; especially influential in
Tibet [syn: Tantra, Tantrism]
To one
used to all forms of female beauty, through imagination/visualization and thus
the mental maturation, hardening; will any female beauty, even of heavenly form
disturb his meditation? It will be boring to such an adept, in the event of any
confrontation with female form, human or spirit.
Many
who undergo meditative practices face interruption from female forms, human or
heavenly. For example, Sage Vishwamitra, who faced many heavenly forms. One
need to come out of one’s own emotions to counter that interruption.
Visualization thus anticipates such an attack and gets the mind used to it, so
that it doesn’t waver. One who is thus better prepared for an attack. What
could be the scenario of one who is ignorant of the other side? How will that
person face the attack while in meditation? He can get enchanted with beauty.
He can even assume the attack as a higher form of meditative achievement,
ignorantly hold on or cling on to the form and stay at that level instead of
progressing further.
Are you
indirectly suggesting that there is nothing wrong in watching pornography?
No
leakage. No emission. No masturbation. No sex. Use that as a form of measuring
stick.
Majority
of normal people who watch pornography leak.
If
you can meditate thoroughly and control the sex energy, (only advanced lamas
normally involve in this type of path; for once heated up, it is very hard to
control oneself; to prevent leakage. If you fall asleep, the erotic energy you
saw visually, which got saved/stored in visual memory, can come back from the
sub-conscious mind and cause an emission). So one have to be very careful.
So you
can decide what is good for you.
Erotica
and leakage, you destroy yourself, slowly by leakage, by bleeding.
Proper
control, beneficial.
Nowadays,
internet and pornography are common even in schools among the teaching staff.
If no control over oneself, one’s own leakage, leads to self destruction, that
is all.
Ask
yourself, on who is better self-controlled:
That
third state of being is VERY TOUGH, and you really need proper life-style to
ensure the self-control. Truly mature are they. They know what is what and they
hold their peace. Also it need not be meditation alone. There are other
parallel paths. It can be good manual physical labor etc. Critically observe
some of the bouncersº, who work in strip clubs, how controlled they are.
º those
well-built men who ensure law and order within the club premises.
"Beguiled by false knowledge as propagated, certain persons, deprived of the guru-shishya tradition, imagine the nature of the Kuladharma according to their own intellect. If merely by drinking wine, men were to attain fulfillment, all addicted to liquor would reach perfection. If mere partaking of flesh were to lead to the high state, all the carnivores in the world would become eligible to immense merit. If liberation were to be ensured by sexual intercourse with a shakti, all creatures would become liberated by female companionship." (Kularnava Tantra, II, 116- 118).
Some tantras came forward to impose an inner import to these external acts. The person who practices 'pancha makAra' worship is termed as a 'divya' or a hero in kularNava tantra. The tantra states that the divine person, or divya, is one who realizes the wine flow from the 1,000 petal lotus, flesh as the sense of duality, fish as the disordering of the senses and sexual intercourse is the union of Kundalini with supreme Shiva. Indeed, the commentary to the famous Karpuradi stotra goes further and says that true sexual intercourse is union with the goddess within. Intercourse with any other woman is adultery. (It's unreasonable to assume that vAmAchArins did not practice kundalini yoga).
(Reference:
6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
- Hebrews 5:6 :: King James Version (KJV)
To ponder
Smiling slightly, His Holiness The Dalai Lama explained that Drukpa Kunley could understand the long-term effects of his actions because he had attained the nondual insight known as "one taste." All experiences were the same to him: He could enjoy excrement and urine just like the finest food and wine. Traditionally, His Holiness said, the practice of tantric sex is permitted only to practitioners who can match Drukpa Kunley's insight. As for the teachers nowadays who sleep with many students, His Holiness laughed and said, "If you put into their mouth some urine, they will not enjoy." This in itself would be proof of their inadequacy.
A more traditional test to prove
one's suitability for tantric sexual practice, His
Holiness said, is to display, not unlike the
Venerable Pindola Bharadvaja,
psychic powers such as flying. "As far
as I know," His Holiness concluded, "zero
lamas today can do that." Some meditators
living in caves around Dharamsala are highlly realized and possibly capable of such attainments,
he said, but they are celibate.
(Reference: Chaphu, Gershey. (Translated by Dowman, Keith
and Paljor, Sonam. (1982) The
Divine Madman: The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley. Chapter One.)
Diary
Notes
The early tantric scriptures are classified
into four categories: (1) Kriya Tantra,
(2) Carya Tantra, (3) Yoga Tantra, and (4) Anuttarayoga Tantra.
…
The final and fourth category of scriptures is those which contain
various erotic representations of sakti to represent enlightenment.
(Reference: Tantric Scriptures.)
In other words, energy representation…that what is in the mind, how am
I going to give it form, to represent, when the body is sworn in celibacy??
Diverse erotic representations are drawn…but the ignorant, forget the
celibate condition and try to imitate the mental condition bodily…leaking the
energy out…
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With Indian Tantra the kundalini
is awakened through specific breathing practices and yoga-postures. The prana or
vital-force of the subtle body is thus manipulated through the breath and the
physical body; through an extension of Hatha yoga which, the reader will recall, was associated from
the beginning with Indian Tantra. In contrast, Vajrayana practice involves manipulating the vital
force through the mind and concentration. Through
intense visualisation of deities and so on, one
activates the inner "winds" (= prana = ch'i) and "drops".
(Reference: Vajrayana
(Tantric Buddhism))
Like in-breathing and out-breathing. Indian Tantra
speaks about one path (how you do the in-breathe) while the Tibetan speaks from
the other side (How you do the out-breathe). In my
writings I just left it as it is…For you don’t learn to breathe. You just
breathe as it is. There in my writings, certain conditions are given - to close
the exit from energy loss and left as it is…just like you breathe as it is…No
forcible breathing there…Once the exit is closed, the “holding on”, under the
right circumstances of prayer or meditation, energy reaches its rightful
place…Have to. Simple for any layman or lay woman…to
practice.
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Through intense visualisation of deities and
concentration upon the "lower tip" (the minor chakra
at the tip of the sex-organ),
(Reference: Vajrayana
(Tantric Buddhism))
In the pressure-cooker, once the right boiling is reached, the weight
that is kept on the exit value on the top rises, to release the excess steam…
When you see any sexy or sensuously exciting, and if you watch your
organ carefully, you can note its movements. A stage reaches when it is fully
blossomed…the right boiling point…just like the rising of the weight in the
pressure cooker, so too the flexed up penis. Pray, concentrate and meditate.
Make sure the exit is closed from emission. The energy will slowly get
channeled…
Looks very simple and common in daily
occurrence. It doesn’t
have much fanfare or “style” like the actual sitting and practice of the above
in-breath and out-breath techniques.
In truth, that is what it is…simple…by means of awareness…
For spirituality is there in each and every turn of your life…not only
those moments you pray or meditate…it is round the clock…24 hours…every day…all
through the life…
Thus as many say, I don’t have time to practice…spend one hour to sit
silently daily etc. No need…
All it requires is be aware…and live a certain way of life…of
control…slowly with time…you reach your destination…Not at all a big deal…Just
don’t waste energy by way of masturbation or sex…In other words celibacy or brahmacharya…
Once this basic celibate condition is properly brought in, whatever
happens in your life, becomes the holy path, whether it be working in office,
manual labor etc. It is thus Hatha yoga in different
forms…not just the specific yogic postures alone…
For what is yoga? Just the channeling of internal energy…And the only
way is to close the exit. Once that is there, whatever you do, channeling have to occur…NATURALLY…no forced breathing
there…
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The objective of the Yoga school is attaining union or at-one-ness with the divine-spiritual essence within which is virtually identical with the spiritual essence or Logos of the universe. True yoga is genuine psychology based on a complete philosophical understanding of the entire inner human constitution.
(Reference:
The
six schools of ancient Hindu Philosophy.)
In the pressure-cooker, once the right boiling is reached, the weight
that is kept on the exit value on the top rises, to release the excess steam…
When you see any sexy or sensuously exciting, say pornography or sex
scenes in movies etc, and if you watch your organ carefully, you can note its
movements. A stage reaches when it is fully blossomed…the right boiling point…just like the rising of the weight in the
pressure cooker, so too the
flexed up penis.
As a result of the tumo-heat, the drops
melt and enter the central channel.
(Reference: Vajrayana
(Tantric Buddhism))
Pre-semen on the duct? Waiting impatiently to come out through the
nearest exit? What happens if that exit is locked and barricaded? Some other exit have to be used…naturally…
So pray…meditate…for using that “sacred” exit…
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The entire visualisation or meditation
stage itself is called the stage of Generation,
as its purpose of is to construct or generate an actual enlightenment or buddha-body, the stage of Completion. The result of all this is that one rises in
an "illusory body", so called because it is a spirit body rather than
a physical body, and at death, rather than be caught up by the bardo and reincarnation, one remains in full consciousness in the illusory
body, so attaining Buddhahood.
(Reference: Vajrayana
(Tantric Buddhism))
Without
training in meditation... it is impossible to transform sexual activity into
the spiritual path. Misunderstanding Tantra, some
people with no experience of meditation indulge in sexual misconduct and claim
to be great Tantric practitioners. Such people are
destroying the Buddhadharma and creating the cause
to be reborn in hell.
- Geshe Kelsan, author of "Tantric
Grounds and Paths"
(Reference: Tantrism.)
You practice tantrism to advance spiritually.
In the Buddhist path there are twin paths of Dharma and Vinaya
that go hand in hand to facilitate the spiritual progress. In Vinaya, the laws to be followed are specified, with the
third law being the vital factor separating lay people and serious advanced
practitioners.
You need to either follow the eight precepts or the ten or higher
precepts to advance properly in Tantrism.
Also any man or woman with any form of
spiritual attainments which are not normal in society (eg. Extra Sensory Perception
ESP etc.) SHOULD accept the eight or ten or even the
higher laws of training. The following of the laws helps to further his
or her training, in spite of common obstacles in society. The laws in return
also protect the trainee from any forms of danger…
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Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma-sambuddhassa
I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures.
I undertake the precept to refrain from taking that which is not given.
I undertake the precept to refrain from sexual activity.
I undertake the precept to refrain from incorrect speech.
I undertake the precept to refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs which lead to carelessness.
I undertake the
precept to refrain from eating at the forbidden time (i.e., after
I undertake the precept to refrain from dancing, singing, music, going to see entertainments, wearing garlands, using perfumes, and beautifying the body with cosmetics.
I undertake the precept to refrain from lying on a high or luxurious sleeping place.
These training rules are observed by laypeople during periods of intensive meditation practice and during uposatha (lunar observance) days. The eight precepts are based on the Five Precepts, with the third precept extended to prohibit all sexual activity and an additional three precepts that are especially supportive to meditation practice.
(Reference: The
Eight Precepts. attha-sila. (Revised:
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma-sambuddhassa
I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures.
I undertake the precept to refrain from taking that which is not given.
I undertake the precept to refrain from sexual activity.
I undertake the precept to refrain from incorrect speech.
I undertake the precept to refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs which lead to carelessness.
I undertake the
precept to refrain from eating at the forbidden time (i.e., after
I undertake the precept to refrain from dancing,singing, music, going to see entertainments.
I undertake the precept to refrain from wearing garlands, using perfumes, and beautifying the body with cosmetics.
I undertake the precept to refrain from lying on a high or luxurious sleeping place.
I undertake the precept to refrain from accepting gold and silver (money).
These training rules are observed by novice monks and nuns. They are derived from the Eight Precepts by splitting the precept concerning entertainments into two parts and by adding one rule prohibiting the handling of money.
A fully-ordained monk (bhikkhu) observes the 227 rules of the bhikkhu Patimokkha; a fully ordained nun (bhikkhuni) would observe the 311 rules of the bhikkhuni Patimokkha.
(Reference:
The Ten
Precepts. dasa-sila. (Revised:
Tantrism was
a "movement appearing in
- John Ferguson, An
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Mysticism and the
Mystery Religions
(Reference: Tantric Sexual Rituals.)
The Japanese Zen or the Chinese Chan also have an inner meaning of “the right way to do something”
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The Nyingma hold that there are nine paths to enlightenment,
the first three based on the sutras and the other six on the tantras. Dzokchen ('Great
Perfection') is a tantric discipline transmitted
within the sect. Imbued
with a Zen-like quality, it is based on a program of accelerated meditation, which enables the student to achieve
enlightenment within a relatively short time.
(Reference: Men-Tsee-Khang
Online.)
Kenneth
Rextroth, in his introduction to the works of the
seventeenth-century alchemist Thomas Vaughan, states "that the 'Vessel of Nature', the vessel in which the alchemical operation
takes place, is a 'menstruous substance'. 'It is
the matrix of Nature, wherein you must place the universal sperm as
soon as it appears beyond its body. The heat of this matrix is suphureous, and it is that which coagulates the
sperm...This matrix is
the life of the sperm, for it preserves and quickens it.' And he ends his postscript by stating that he is
convinced that this basic secret of alchemy was originally 'revealed' to man,
'for it is the secret of Nature, even that which the philosophers call "the first copulation"...' Such sexual symbolism is not rare in
alchemy (i.e., the sexual yoga of Chinese alchemy and Tantrism).
It looks as though either
-
Colin Wilson, Mysteries
(Reference: Tantric Sexual Rituals.)
Sperms live in the liquid semen thereby being provided the right
temperature for its life…Without this “containing liquid” or vessel, sperms
cannot live. You can even term it “The Matrix of Nature” or the “Vessal of Nature”.
The entry of new sperms into the semen liquid where they live for
around 41 days, can even be termed as the first
copulation…for one form of energy moving into the safe custody of another…
The word menstrual normally applicable to females is attributed to that
liquid part which leaves the body in a cyclical manner; in a periodical manner
Depending on the social conditions, for men also a similar leakage
occurs in the form of pre-semen or semen…which is independent of the fixed
cyclical period as in the case of the females. The leakage occurs due to
various factors – excess food, drink, mental impurities, social conditions,
dreams etc…
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"The
'left-hand' worshippers, who follow the destructive principle and claim that
they can utilize it, worship [Kali] in secret. In the higher levels of
initiation, worship is changed, for both the Tantra (left hand) and other worshippers
"The
Tantrics explain that the physical license of the
worship of Kali is needed for brutish mankind in this evil (Kaliyuga)
time. This is because only a few can liberate themselves from the flesh and
reach divinity direct. Kalipuja (Kali-worship) gives
the brutish man and woman an outlet and an idea of how intoxicating true
communion with the divine could be.”
- Arkon Daraul, Secret
Societies
(Reference: Tantric Sexual Rituals.)
In the root language pronunciation, Kali, the female goddess is
different from the Kali in Kaliyuga, though the same
characters are used in English…
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The Kagyu system focuses strongly on aspects of practical mysticism. A basic
discipline is Hatha Yoga, which specializes in
breathing techniques and postures. Its
supreme goal is the Great
Seal (mahamudra), the
overcoming of dichotomous thought in the very being of Buddhahood.
To achieve enlightenment within a lifetime,
or at the moment of death, the practitioner relies on the Six Yogas of Naropa (self-produced heat, illusory body, dreams, the
experience of light, the intermediate state between death and rebirth, the
passing from one existence into another).
Following the tradition of Marpa, the school does not
demand celibacy or association with a religious institution.
(Reference: Men-Tsee-Khang
Online.)
The concept of the Great Seal can also be interpreted as the attainment
of a certain level of mental maturity where you will find it very hard to fall
back to lower levels of life - a life which normal men and women live…Something
seals off your falling back…you can only move forward…not backward…
The laxity in celibacy in this school is just because its adherents
follows the life of Marpa as a living example, just
like adherents of Islam follows the life of Muhammad as a living example. BUT
celibacy is a basic requirement in Buddhadharma, for
higher practitioners.
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“Thou
belongest to That Which Is Undying, and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its
muteness at last. “Thou art eternal,
and not merely
of the vanishing flesh. The
soul in man cannot be killed, cannot
die. It waits, shroud-wrapped,
in thy heart, as I waited, sand-wrapped, in
thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee,
as in all men, that comes and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search in Secret
Amen