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

Allow the View to Arise Spontaneously
The main practice for attaining Mahāmudrā is, after orgasm with your physical consort, simply
letting go and allowing it to arise on its own. Mahāmudrā is the true nature of your mind, which
actually arises in every moment of your perception, but it is continuously obscured by dualistic
thoughts. The initial experience of Mahāmudrā occurs spontaneously as your attachment to
dualistic thoughts and obscuring emotions is released. As a beginner, you start with a mental
certainty of what the view is, then rest your mind in that awareness until the actual view
spontaneously dawns. In the beginning, your meditation practice is usually mostly Tranquility
Meditation with a little bit of Mahāmudrā mixed in. As you develop your ability to maintain the
view, your practice becomes more purely Mahāmudrā. Once you attain the view of the mind
looking at itself, a light literally goes on inside you, because the true nature of your mind is
luminous clarity. Your mind shifts from dullness to bright clarity, bliss, and the joy of your own
certainty that you have attained it.
Sky Meditation
Tilopa suggests supporting maintaining the view of Mahāmudrā by gazing up at the sky through
the Sky Meditation (Svarga Samādhi). This gives you a vision with no visual objects that might
distract you, and also reflects the vast, infinite spaciousness that your mind in its true nature is.
Vase Breath
Tilopa advises if you are struggling to maintain the view, you can use Vase Breath (Kumbhaka)
to support your Mahāmudrā meditation practice.
Swing Recitation
Śabara uses the Swing Recitation (Dolā Japa), the subtle energy yoga practice of generating a
mantra passing continuously through you and your lover, to stabilize the view of Mahāmudrā
after you have returned from the Clear Light through the Four Blisses with your lover. In this
way, you blissfully support each other in maintaining the view.
Deepening the View of Mahāmudrā
Having attained the view, and developed an ability to maintain it throughout your day, your next
step is to focus on deepening the view. This is achieved over time through four profound levels
of realization elaborated by Saraha: 1) Mindfulness (Smṛiti), 2) Beyond Mindfulness
(Vismaraṇa), 3) Unborn (Ajāta), and 4) Beyond the Intellect (Acintya). As the power of your
Mahāmudrā practice improves through sexual yoga, these levels progressively arise:
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