Intermediate

These articles and scriptures are appropriate for those who already have some grasp of the essential points of sacred sexuality.

Dalai Lamas: Sexual Yoga

The Second Dalai Lama (16th century) "By relying upon an external consort... who has matured through Tantric initiation, the yogi on the highest levels of the completion stage is led to Great Bliss... For this practice one must understand the oral instructions well and have complete control of the vital energies. Entering into sexual union with a consort, gives rise to the Innate Bliss. This causes the vital energies to dissolve just as at the time of death, and the Clear Light of the mind arises with great strength..." - Transmission of the Wisdom Dakini ••• The Sixth Dalai Lama "I sought instruction at the feet of a renowned lama, But my thoughts continually escaped to my beloved For my mind was full of great compassion." ••• The Seventh Dalai Lama "By the profound yogas of the secret path, such as offering ambrosial...

Marpa: Sexual Transmutation

Marpa returned to India bearing sixty sang of gold. On the way he traversed Nepal, where he met his previous teachers and made offerings. Learning that [his teacher] Naropa had entered the action [a high degree of attainment], he journeyed to the city of Lakshetra in the West and asked for Yeshe Nyingpo who was staying in a forest, attended by a woman of low caste. "When she comes to gather water," he was told, "ask her if you may see him." When she arrived, he made his request. Pointing to a large jar of water she was holding [in other words: her own sexual organs], she said, "Use one-third of this water to bathe, and one-third for drinking." After Marpa had finished bathing [his mind through meditation], the washing water fell back into the vase [of sexual union] and transformed into his white seed-essence (bindu; masculine sexual energy; in other words, he did not spill a drop of fluid, and it returned, transformed]. The woman then performed a [Tantric] yogic exercise over...

Milarepa: Sexual Energy

"Bliss arises when the inner fire [tummo, Vital Heat] blazes throughout the body,There is bliss when the winds of Roma and Kyangma [the two channels beside the spine] enter into the central channel [in the spine],There is bliss when the bodhichitta [pure sexual energy] descends from above... and the translucent tigle [sexual energy] pervades from below.When the white and red [male and female essences] unite in the middle [at the heart],And the joy of a leakless body satiates one,The whole body is suffused with undefiled rapture.Sixfold is the bliss of the secret yogas." - The Song of the Snow Ranges