Great-Bliss-Tantric-Sex-and-the-Path-to-Inner-Awakening

This ritual is your first conscious “taste” of Innate bliss, in which all things have the same
essential taste (sama rasa) of bliss. It is especially important to understand that sexual fluids are
not “symbolic,” they actually are pure manifestations of Innate bliss, and have the power to
bestow the bliss of enlightened awareness. It is called the Secret Consecration because it is a
short, direct experience of ultimate reality which cannot be conceptualized but can only be
directly known through the mixed sexual fluids. What arises is, as the Hevajra Tantra describes,
a “wisdom, free of ideas of self and other, space-like, undefiled, empty, the essence of existence
and nonexistence and the supreme.”
You are then additionally transformed by making love to your consort. You receive the sacred
sexual vibrations of enlightened bliss from the guru - your consort passes these on to you, and
acts as the messenger (dūtī) of bliss. With the blessings of the deities, you attain the first bliss of
sexual yoga followed by the second bliss, the Bliss of Intensifying Passion (Paramānanda),
increasing erotic pleasure, and the second moment, Ripening (Vipāka), the focused meditative
absorption on rising bliss.
The guru gives you instructions on subtle energy yoga for you to incorporate into your practice
of the sādhana. Teachings are also given on the Mind Only philosophy, which you integrate into
your daily conduct, considering all appearances as arisings of your mind.
You take the vows of the Secret Consecration. Your goals after the second consecration are to
practice subtle energy yoga until you gain some proficiency, ideally generating inner heat, and to
focus on performing your ritual practices quietly in secret alone with your consort to begin to
experience inwardly the transformation of your subtle body.
The Third Consecration: Wisdom/Method Consecration
The third consecration is called the Wisdom Consecration (Prajñā Abhiṣeka) when the student is
a man, and the Method Consecration (Upāya Abhiṣeka) when the student is a woman, as the
consecration is named after the practitioner’s consort, who may be female (prajñā) or male
(upāya). Through uniting with the consort, you attain the bliss of nirvāṇa.
As in the second consecration, the guru first has sex with your consort, generating enlightened
bliss. Returning the consort to you, with your consort you attain orgasm; through the power of
your intention and the blessings of the buddhas and masters of the lineage you attain the first,
second, and third bliss of sexual yoga. The third bliss, the Bliss of Cessation (Viramānanda),
makes the leap from orgasmic bliss to a bliss oceanically greater, and the third moment,
Dissolving (Vimarda), as you dissolve into the Clear Light of ultimate reality, are well
established in your mind and body.
The third consecration, if most successful, gives you a short, direct experience of unchanging
Essence. It is a state of Unity Consciousness in which all appearances are wiped out, and all
experiences have the same taste (sama rasa) of pure bliss. All conceptuality is wiped out as it is
directly experienced. The third consecration attains what can only be attained through the
Mahāyāna after eons of practice – direct personal experience of ultimate reality. In the third
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