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

Philosophy
“The moment when each partner’s potency of the Four Levels of Mahāmudrā
is activated in the female and male sexual organs, the Great Bliss is achieved.”
- Advayavajra, Oral Instructions on the Four Yogas
Nondual Yoga is the union of the Bliss of Ultimate Reality and the Bliss of Appearances
into the Great Bliss
Nondual Yoga as Integrated Awareness
Nondual yoga rests upon the direct perception of both ultimate reality as primordial wisdom and
the creative play of pure appearances. Maitrīgupta notes that at its highest stage, “Mahāmudrā is
the integrated state of the Clear Light” with your daily awareness.
Consciousness, Thought, and Primordial Awareness
One of the great afflictions Westerners face is that they are trained to think that consciousness
(citta, the heart-mind) is thought (vijñāna – lit. divided awareness). Consciousness is not thought,
though thoughts arise from it. Consciousness is awareness. Awareness takes a vast range of
forms, from physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, love, intuitions, visions, dreams, dreamless
sleep, and higher wisdom. Equating thoughts with consciousness is like equating clouds with the
sky. Thought is what obscures consciousness in unenlightened individuals, as you continually
overlay your intrinsically pure experiences with mental categories like “good” and “bad,” “self”
and “other,” and lead yourself into a false understanding of reality that results in suffering.
Your mind itself is something deeper than thinking - its true nature is primordial awareness
(jñāna), unchanging and all-pervasive, and transcends all thoughts and appearances. The true
nature of your mind is Essence, the radiant Clear Light of ultimate reality. When you release
your attachment to thought and seek your mind’s true nature, you discover it is identical to
cosmic, primordial awareness. When this truth is realized, no words can adequately describe the
majesty of the experience. As Śabara shares triumphantly, “It is beyond any other conceptual
possibility you might come up with.”
Duality
Duality is suffering. Duality (Dvaya) is experience divided by dualistic thoughts (vijñāna),
obscuring emotions, misguided intentions, and habitual behavior patterns. It is life stained by
karma from this and previous lifetimes that prevents you from being fully present in bliss.
Duality is a mind-set that structures you so that no matter what you do or do not do, you are
never permanently happy. It separates out all life experiences into mental categories that you
think have a substantive reality to them: you and not you, success and failure, and on and on. It is
at its root the unreal separation of appearances from the bliss and wisdom of ultimate reality.
Duality is tragic, painful, and utterly unnecessary. It leads to anger, frustration, addictive
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