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five Dhyani Buddhas, Reflected or Modified Wisdom; and the Nirmana-Kaya embodies, as in the Human
Buddhas, Practical or Incarnate Widom. All enlightened beings who are reborn in this or any other world
with full consciousness, as workers for the betterment of their fellow creatures, are said to be Nirmana-Kaya
incarnates. Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup, the translator of the Bardo Thodol, held that the Adi-Buddha, and all
deities associated with the Dharma-Kaya, are not to be regarded as personal deities, but as personifications
of primordial and universal forces, laws or spiritual influences. “In the boundless panorama of the existing
and visible universe, whatever shapes appear, whatever sounds vibrate, whatever radiances illuminate, or
whatever consciousnesses cognize, all are the play of manifestation in the Tri-Kaya, the Three-fold Principle
of the Cause of All Causes, the Primordial Trinity. Impenetrating all, is the All-Pervading Essence of Spirit,
which is Mind. It is uncreated, impersonal, self-existing, immaterial and indestructible.” The Tri-Kaya is the
esoteric trinity and corresponds to the exoteric trinity of Buddha, the Scriptures and the Priesthood (or your
own divinity, this manual and your companions).
If the voyager is struggling with guilt and penance hallucinations, the ==|==>> INSTRUCTIONS FOR
JUDGMENT VISIONS may be read.
V. Sexual Visions
Sexual visions are extremely frequent during the Third Bardo. You may see or imagine males and females
copulating. [According to Jung. (“Psychological Commentary” to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Evans-
Wentz edition, p. xiii), “Freud’s theory is the first attempt made in the West to investigate, as if from below,
from the animal sphere of instinct the psychic territory that corresponds in Tantric Lamaism to the Sidpa
Bardo.” The vision described here, in which the person sees mother and father in sexual intercourse,
corresponds to the “primal scene” in psychoanalysis. At this level, then, we begin to see a remarkable
convergence of Eastern and Western psychology. Note also the exact correspondence to the psychoanalytic
theory of the Oedipus Complex.] This vision may be internal or it may involve the people around you. You
may hallucinate multi-person orgies and experience both desire and shame, attraction and disgust. You may
wonder what sexual performance is expected of you and have doubts about your ability to perform at this
time.
When these visons occur, remember to withhod yourself from action or attachment. Have faith and float
gently with the stream. Trust in the unity of life and in your companions.
If you attempt to enter into your old ego because you are attracted or repulsed, if you try to join or excape
from the orgy you are hallucinating, you will re-enter on an animal or neurotic level. If you become
conscious of “malness,” hatred of the father together with jealousy and attraction towards the mother will
be experienced; if you become conscious of “femaleness,” hatred of the mother together with attraction and
fondness for the father is experienced.
It is perhaps needless to say that this kind of self-centered sexuality has little in common with the sexuality
of transpersonal experiences. Physical union can be one expression or manifestation of cosmic union.
Visions of sexual union may sometimes be followed by visions of conception - you may actually visualize the
sperm uniting with the ovum - , of intra-uterine life and birth through the womb. Some people claim to have
re-lived their own physical birth in psychedelic sessions and occasionally confirming evidence for such claims
has been put forward. Whether this is so or not may be left as a question to be decided by empirical
evidence. Sometimes the birth visions will be clearly symbolic - e.g., emergence from a cocoon, breaking
out of a shell, etc.
Whether the birth vision is constructed from memory or fantasy, the psychedelic voyager should try to
recognize the signs indicating the type of personality that is being reborn.
The ==|==>> INSTRUCTIONS FOR SEXUAL VISIONS may be read to the voyager who is struggling with
sexual hallucinations.