<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pByJm-YSMPYeFzrzYtRG4uK04FA1JOUT/preview" width="100%" height="80" allow="autoplay"></iframe> **Speaker 1** Actually, the chakra was just between the eyebrows, or an inch, maybe an inch, or an inch. **Speaker 1** So you don't think it's painted under? **Speaker 1** Like, people in India paint a vindo here, but it's to represent a spot which is like an inch in. **Speaker 1** I think my pain is locked in. **Speaker 1** To me, okay? **Speaker 1** And if you meditate and if you focus your mind about an ancient in, **Speaker 1** you suddenly have to take concentration time and you can go much deeper in concentration. **Speaker 1** And that's because the upper opening of the center channel is here. **Speaker 1** One of our lamas, Kishipi Chinyo-chan, who trained us in Naropa's practices together, trained us together, **Speaker 1** he said it actually comes down here and it curves them faces outwards so it opens like a circle. **Speaker 1** And there are practices we'll be doing there. **Speaker 1** But the two side channels come down along the side, and they cross around in separate directions, **Speaker 1** and then they come down all the way around here, cross, come back, and then they continue down to here. **Speaker 1** Do you see people concentrating and they're scratching the other side of the room? **Speaker 1** They're actually stimulating them. It's very interesting. **Speaker 1** at the end of the sun-channel, and if you smile, seriously, it loosens this area, it **Speaker 1** loosens this chakra, it opens this chakra. It's healthy for you to smile. It's good for your **Speaker 1** chakras. It's good for this opening at the end. So, we are trying to concentrate the **Speaker 1** mind. And we're trying to stimulate this area. That has sort of a suction effect. Like if **Speaker 1** you take a McDonald's straw, it's not a McFlurry, okay? It's more like a gnosine. But the McFlurry **Speaker 1** It will stick you to it. **Speaker 1** You hold the upper end of the straw, right? **Speaker 1** And then you pick it up, and then the suction will keep the liquid in the straw, right? **Speaker 1** And then when you release that, it releases down. **Speaker 1** The milkshake flows out of the straw, right? **Speaker 1** We're doing the same thing here. **Speaker 1** See? By concentrating the mind, and if you can, a physical touch on this opening, **Speaker 1** You are feeling it. It's a mudra. Right? You are feeling it. **Speaker 1** And then what he says is semen will not so much. **Speaker 1** Maybe if a really sexy lady is like banging out with her or something. **Speaker 1** And, but the idea, the release of semen is a sign that the Atana Vyar is operative. **Speaker 1** You see? The downward tearing wind. That is called Tursa Gino. **Speaker 1** Say "Tinsa" **Speaker 1** "Tinsa" **Speaker 1** "Tinsa" **Speaker 1** That's the bayou or the wind that allows the elimination of the sun of the body through the lower movies of the body. **Speaker 1** And one of the important practices of yoga is to reverse the flow of that wind, so it moves upwards, **Speaker 1** and then to lock the flow of the upward moving wind, called "ginger-gyu" **Speaker 1** sometimes they say the Pada Vaya is simple, **Speaker 1** how to seal it with a Jala Nara, which we'll get to later. **Speaker 1** So you're sealing the top and you're sealing the bottom. **Speaker 1** In this case, you're sealing the top like this jaw here. **Speaker 1** In the Pada Vaya cannot move out. **Speaker 1** If you're doing a good job at it, **Speaker 1** then even if you really have to go to the bathroom, **Speaker 1** even if you really have to go to the bathroom, **Speaker 1** even if you were having your period, **Speaker 1** Or if you were about to lose semen, it wouldn't come out. **Speaker 1** So, it's not the point that sowers are trying to retain semen, which will come. **Speaker 1** But you're actually trying to retain the mint, which lies below the semen. **Speaker 1** Semen is a gross expression of what we call a whiteout, which is a much more subtle substance in the body. **Speaker 1** But if you lose semen, you lose the white element. **Speaker 1** The white element is connected to the downward turning in. **Speaker 1** If you lose semen, you lose the white element, you lose the downward turning in. **Speaker 1** It releases. **Speaker 1** And then the whole idea of inner fire is oil. **Speaker 1** You can't make an inner fire. **Speaker 1** Because that involves reversing that downward wind and pushing it up into the middle area. **Speaker 1** So if you release, then you have lost that power. So a yogi is trying to restrain that part of the way to do it is to feel the strong power. **Speaker 1** Okay? That's what they discussed. So you can raise the ADA flag. **Speaker 1** I remember when we were sitting running this subject in the monastery and **Speaker 1** Christine Barrett got ahead and asked, "Is this a title of women off the line?" **Speaker 1** And he said, "Yeah, so the price also to the structural flows that are won't equally **Speaker 1** equally in the class. So why did they mention them? These texts were mostly written for **Speaker 1** men. It was a patriarchal system for many centuries. It was passed down among men, even **Speaker 1** until recent times. Only in this generation have a lot of women, aside from the UMA, broken **Speaker 1** into the yoga scene in such a big way. And our teachers are very excited about it. And **Speaker 1** So, again, as we move through the text, we'll have to clarify how women do certain practices, **Speaker 1** what they press on to get the same effect. **Speaker 1** Hugh does same to it, I think. **Speaker 2** The initiative to worship was always very proud of me for doing my Vagyo-beenie practice so well **Speaker 2** And then when he found out I was left handed, like it went off the toes, you know? **Speaker 2** It was like, I got to make my mama happy without ever doing anything and show up and like he's already happy with me. **Speaker 2** It was so nice. **Speaker 2** So, yeah, he was. **Speaker 2** Um, we're going on to the next verse. **Speaker 2** I'm sorry, okay. **Speaker 2** Chaito **Speaker 2** And whenever the essential drop shifts coming to the sphere of the vagina, then the movement upwards is lost. **Speaker 2** Restrain it then with force using the vagina seal. **Speaker 2** So basically these two verses are both talking about the same thing. **Speaker 2** You know, there are certain practices in this yoga tradition and in the highest level of this tradition **Speaker 2** where we were talking about before, mudra as a seal is actually talking about a seal between two bodies **Speaker 2** and now a seal is one body. **Speaker 2** You know, where you would practice your Buddha practice with a partner. **Speaker 2** And you would use what they call the path of desire. **Speaker 2** Which is interesting because we were just talking about Soma yesterday. **Speaker 2** And in one sense you could think of Soma being the milky white substance that runs through the left hand channel. **Speaker 2** That is responsible for all of our feelings of desire. **Speaker 2** And instead of thinking of that as a negative thing, instead of using it, trying to get rid of it, you kind of channel it. **Speaker 2** Like you bring that energy of desire inside the central channel. **Speaker 2** And you use it to fire the flame in the central channel below the navel. **Speaker 2** And there's practices to this. **Speaker 2** and a lot of them, some of them involve imagining a partner, some of them involve an actual partner. **Speaker 2** Why? Why would you do this? **Speaker 2** The only purpose for any of these practices is so that we can see emptiness directly, **Speaker 2** so that we can get the winds inside the central channel, **Speaker 2** so that we too could become angel beings of light who could go around in multiple bodies and save all the beings. **Speaker 2** That's the only reason anybody would ever want to do these practices. **Speaker 2** So, you know, as a teacher, you know, your particular mama or guru would be evaluating you quite strongly to think, you know, **Speaker 2** will they use these practices for the right purpose? **Speaker 2** After they know that he's a person who wants to receive enlightenment and who would use these practices for the benefit of all their beings, **Speaker 2** then they would teach you these practices. **Speaker 2** and that they are passed down orally in small groups with your own root murder. **Speaker 2** And so we're not going to cover them here. **Speaker 2** But one thing that I can say is that when... **Speaker 2** The process of realizing that you don't actually walk to the door is kind of scary. **Speaker 2** The process of realizing that you don't actually have a body is kind of scary. **Speaker 2** And the process of realizing that you are not really you is really scary. **Speaker 2** So actually deconstructing every single thing in your universe **Speaker 2** and realizing that they're all a projection and nothing has any actual nature of its own, **Speaker 2** it can be viscerally quite frightening. **Speaker 2** And we tend to not want to go there. **Speaker 2** And we tend to want to hold on to it, especially ourselves. **Speaker 2** Like that's the last thing. **Speaker 2** That's the hardest thing. **Speaker 2** You don't want to lose your own identity. **Speaker 2** You don't want to see that you are also empty. **Speaker 2** It's scary. **Speaker 2** So you use the path of bliss to get you beyond the fear. **Speaker 2** Like, you're using this feeling of bliss to get your wings into the center channel. **Speaker 2** Right? **Speaker 2** because that's what it means to get the wind into the central channel. **Speaker 2** You start to have a feeling of blissful feeling. **Speaker 2** And when your mind is focused on the feeling of bliss, **Speaker 2** you cannot have that fear about letting go of your own identity. **Speaker 2** So it's one of the ways that it's like a skillful means **Speaker 2** to use bliss as a tool to get us to see an interesting story. **Speaker 2** It unlocks our clenchedness on this fake identity that we think we must protect, that we think we must hold on to for dear life or it's going to go away. **Speaker 2** If you're in the middle of bliss, you're not going to worry about that so much and you can let it go. **Speaker 2** So it's a very powerful means. **Speaker 2** It's a very powerful, skillful means. **Speaker 2** And it's for very, very specific purposes. **Speaker 2** It's not just because people like to have a fun time in their meditation. **Speaker 2** It's also very helpful, though, because you should have a very pleasurable object of meditation **Speaker 2** that you want to go on your cushion every single day for at least an hour a day. **Speaker 2** And it gets people on their cushion, too, which I also really quite like, **Speaker 2** because I don't like hearing people say that they don't meditate every day. **Speaker 2** If it gets you on their cushion, I'm all for that, too. **Speaker 2** So this is talking about, like Geshe-Mango said, the movement upwards. **Speaker 2** This is talking about the apana vayu, the downward clearing wind, reversing this process. **Speaker 2** And this is really valuable in getting the inner fire to rise up to the tip of the head and then melting down the white element. **Speaker 2** If the white element melts down too far, then you're going to douse it in the fire. **Speaker 2** You're going to get rid of it. **Speaker 2** So you actually have to stop it at a certain point. **Speaker 2** Before it gets all the way down, you have to stop it at a certain point. **Speaker 2** And then you have to resist the process again. **Speaker 2** And that's what this verse is talking about. **Speaker 2** And that's a certain meditation practice within what we were just talking about that we're not going to go into too much detail here. **Speaker 2** But one point that you can get from this is that any kind of release of orgasm for both men and women is a release of prana, it's like a loss of prana. **Speaker 2** You're mostly just losing your energy. You're mostly just losing your chronic energy for other practices. **Speaker 2** So, and then normally in the act of sexual fulfillment, like your channel opens up and then it closes down even tighter. **Speaker 2** Mostly because it's involved in some kind of self-satisfaction. **Speaker 2** You know, you're focused on selfish, like you're pleasing yourself. **Speaker 2** And so it clenches down even higher afterwards. **Speaker 2** So there's beautiful practices that you can do of abstaining from sexual interaction with other people. **Speaker 2** Even if you are in a relationship with somebody else, even if you have a partner, it's a really **Speaker 2** sweet practice. **Speaker 2** Like you decide to take a certain amount of time, say you're going on a retreat, or maybe **Speaker 2** you're just, you want to, you want to rejuvenate yourself. **Speaker 2** You want to have a little bit more life energy. **Speaker 2** So you talk to your partner, or if you don't have a partner, excuse me, you don't have **Speaker 2** to talk to them. **Speaker 2** Talking to them could be quite difficult. **Speaker 2** I've talked to partners where one person is really excited about the practice and the other person is like... **Speaker 2** You know, I'm just crazy. **Speaker 2** So, you know, if you don't have a partner maybe it's a little bit of a blessing in this game. **Speaker 2** But, you know, we just did these beautiful vows of celibacy at Dinamonten. **Speaker 2** Where we gave celibacy vows for three months. **Speaker 2** And everybody dressed in these beautiful white clothes in the hall. **Speaker 2** It's like, I don't know, it's about, I don't know, three times as big as this room, **Speaker 2** and they're all full of people just like you, but they're all in white. **Speaker 2** Everybody was in white, and it was so beautiful. **Speaker 2** And we all took these boughs together, and it's such a sweet practice. **Speaker 2** And most of them in the room had partners. **Speaker 2** Most of the people in the room did it with their spiritual partner. **Speaker 2** And they just decided they were going to preserve their sexual energy, **Speaker 2** and they're going to abstain from a lot of sexual contact for the next three months and see what happens. **Speaker 2** It's an exploration in prana. It's an exploration in pranic energy. **Speaker 2** And you, um, I've had some remarkable responses from people even in like the last three weeks. **Speaker 2** There was one person, they said, "Celabus is so sexy." **Speaker 2** Yeah, it really is, you know. **Speaker 2** One thing people noticed when they had a partner was that, like, now they're totally conscious of every single touch. **Speaker 2** You know, you get to a habitual pattern of your partner, and it's kind of like, oh, I, I mean, you know what I'm saying. **Speaker 2** You know, you don't, you get these habits, and it kind of breaks the habit, and it makes every single, like, hand-holding kind of special to get it. **Speaker 2** Like it was way, way back in the beginning, you know? **Speaker 2** And it makes everything like you're gazing at each other's eyes again instead of, you know, it's interesting. **Speaker 2** It's very interesting, especially for, I think, for couples to practice this like for a month or a few months at a time. **Speaker 2** Just as an experiment and see how much energy you have left for your spiritual life **Speaker 2** and how much you can channel into your day and into your practice with each other. **Speaker 2** You know? **Speaker 2** Mmm. **Speaker 2** Anyway, so many yogis practice Selda Zee all the time. **Speaker 2** You know? **Speaker 2** Just like in the Hatha Yoga Panifika, there are several lineages I've studied with where **Speaker 2** they won't teach this to anybody but celibate yogis. **Speaker 2** Because they think it's a waste of time. **Speaker 2** So it's something to think about. **Speaker 2** It is a powerful force. **Speaker 2** The sexual energy is a really powerful force and you can use it. **Speaker 2** And you should know how to utilize it in your body. **Speaker 2** Because it's like something you were born with that's a gift that you should be able to show. **Speaker 2** So that's all I have to say about that. **Speaker 2** Thank you. **Speaker 1** Amen.