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

Through sexual yoga, the united potential of the female and male essences is alchemically
awakened within you. This alchemical change occurs through:
1. Ingesting sexual fluids orally - Oral ingestion is a common and simple practice. The
Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa Tantra counsels, “This is the best diet, eaten by all the buddhas.”
2. Sublimating sexual fluids internally – When a woman is strongly aroused in sexual union, her
cervix descends to meet the man’s vajra and “kiss,” creating a current of subtle energy between
them and connecting their two central channels together. At the point of their subtle union, the
red female and white male essences unite. In sexual yoga, the strong, combined sexual energies
that are generated are then directed internally to transform your subtle body and attain higher
states of bliss and wisdom. Through visualization, the yogi and yoginī each draw up the potency
of these essences into their subtle bodies, into their central channels, and may either spread the
bliss throughout their bodies or concentrate it at a certain point such as a cakra to purify it.
3. Ejaculating and reabsorbing the fluids - While in sexual intercourse a woman naturally
absorbs the man’s essence, Tantric techniques are especially designed so that a man can absorb
the woman’s sexual fluids internally also.
Union
Through sexual yoga, the union (yoga) of your mind with unchanging Essence, the field of
infinite potency, brings you the bliss of nirvāṇa that purifies your obscurations and transforms
you rapidly into a buddha. Union with Essence is achieved through the Four Blisses of sexual
yoga. The Hevajra Tantra shares, “In the Completion Stage, the Innate is revealed in a fourfold
manner as the Four Blisses.” They are the path to uniting worldly bliss with the bliss of Essence,
thereby achieving the Great Bliss. The Four Blisses are the road home. Each of the Four Blisses
is not just an enjoyable feeling but a deep meditative absorption, similar to the Buddha’s
teachings on the levels of absorption in Tranquility Meditation. What makes the Four Blisses
strikingly different from the Buddha’s teachings is that, rather than experiencing each bliss and
discarding it for a higher bliss, all the levels of bliss are equally important and are finally joined
together into the Great Bliss.
The First Bliss: The Bliss of Many Pleasurable Sensations
The first bliss is the bliss of first contact with the genitals. It creates a blissful awareness that is
the first step on the path towards inner awakening. It is union (yoga) with your partner at the
level of the physical. You begin by generating worldly sexual bliss, because as Kṛiṣṇācārya
remarks, “Worldly bliss is the very means which makes the achievement of the goal, the Great
Bliss, possible.” You become meditatively absorbed in these sensations, which are many and
delightful. In these first moments, you are no longer distracted by thoughts of other things, but
are deeply and fully present in the moment with your lover, whom you honor as a buddha.
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