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

Time: 20 to 60 minutes.
The Union of Tranquility and Insight Meditation – Yuganaddha
Breathing Meditation - Ānāpāna Smṛiti
Breathing Meditation unites the meditative absorption of Tranquility Meditation with the
penetrating power of Insight Meditation. The following steps are progressive: begin with the first
four steps, taking your time with each one, and slowly shift into deeper and subtler levels of
absorption. Add the other steps slowly over time, always beginning each session with the first
steps and eventually making your way to the end. Perform each step while focusing deeply on
your own breath as you naturally breathe in and out.
Body – Kāya
1. Contemplate the long breath. Take long, slow breaths, and notice how they affect your mind.
Is it pleasant or unpleasant? Is it calming or exciting? Does it make you happy or unhappy?
2. Contemplate the short breath. Take short, quick breaths, and notice how they affect your mind.
Is it pleasant or unpleasant? Is it calming or exciting? Does it make you happy or unhappy?
3. Experience the whole body. Observe your breath as it conditions your body. Recognize that
your physical body is continually affected by your breath.
4. Calm the whole body. Focus one-pointedly on your breath to calm your breath, which calms
your physical body and mind. Breathe long breaths to release any negative emotions and
thoughts, and reach inner peace. See how your breath influences the qualities of your body and
mind. Long breaths bring peace and happiness, short breaths excitation and discomfort.
Sensations - Vedanā
5. Experience rapture. Notice as sensations of excited happiness or rapture (prīti) arise and how
they affect your mind.
6. Experience bliss. Notice as sensations of calming happiness or bliss (sukha) arise and how
they affect your mind.
7. Experience the mental formations. Be aware of rapture as a coarse, stimulating and disturbing
quality that disrupts your body, breath, and mind. Be aware of bliss as a subtle, calming and
healing quality that pacifies your body, breath, and mind.
8. Calm the mental formations. Drive away your sensations of excited rapture through deepening
meditative concentration, and cultivate your awareness of calming bliss. In this way, you gain
conscious control over your sensations.
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