The Blissful Wisdom of Vajrayogini

What is really beneficial is to bring all this into your everyday life right now. There is much more information to give. We cannot do the completion stage yoga (dzog rim) at this time, nor can we do the transference of consciousness. The dzog rim explains the completion stage yoga of tummo meditation, so whenever you have finished your retreat, whenever you are ready, these teachings will come, for sure. You need not worry about not receiving this information at this time. Just live, keep yourself together and be totally satisfied: have no ambition, feel that nothing is missing. Just be together.

When you are eating and drinking, be fully conscious that you are Vajrayogini, red radiating light. The food is also in the nature of red radiating light, so you are really adding red radiating light to light. Each time you eat, blissful energy petrol enters and increases the radiance of the letter VAM; each time you put that sort of petrol energy into your body, you energize brighter radiation of the seed syllable.¹

Even in the breaks between sessions you are still Vajrayogini, and you should be aware of that as much as possible. If you always identify with the old garbage-thought things, always think you are the old garbage person, then you go into darkness.

So it is important during the breaks between sessions to be aware of yourself as Vajrayogini as much as possible. Try to see even the trees and whatever nature is around as Vajrayogini. Also, when you hear sounds, interpret them as mantra. Even if somebody says, “You are garbage,” interpret those sounds as the mantra. It is very helpful. When garbage thoughts come, recognize them as transcendental, blissful, non-superstitious simultaneous wisdom. When you look at them that way, that is how they appear. When distracting, disturbing thoughts come, instead of saying, “Ugh, bad thoughts,” and crying, recognize that it is Vajrayogini’s nondual wisdom that is coming. This is an excellent transformation technique. When the superstitious, negative mind comes, if you identify it as Vajrayogini’s wisdom, the negative mind just collapses. It can no longer function; it has no support.

Normally, when thoughts come, we think, “Ugh, this is garbage. Good is good. Bad is bad.” Instead of thinking like that, remember the clean-clear mental experience, then all thought becomes beneficial. That is possible. Any form you see becomes Vajrayogini; any sound you hear becomes mantra; and any thought that comes is non-superstitious simultaneously blissful wisdom. There is no room for the fanatical neurotic mind. No room.

Practicing tantra does not mean that you should be suffering and squeezing yourself. As much as possible simultaneously enjoy blissful experience and nondual wisdom; unify the bliss with the nondual wisdom. When you do that, the depressed, wandering mind automatically disappears. Remember this bliss and unification when you are offering and enjoying the different offering substances: whatever you think is the most super-potent energy yogis and yoginis need in order to increase kundalini energy. If you use this method then you won’t have to be worried, “Ugh, my body is eating too much food,” or “I am experiencing too many feelings of lust.” By remembering bliss and unification, there is no way to energize lust.

The monastic rules say that monks and nuns should not eat in the evening because, according to the monastic way of thinking, if you don’t have powerful wisdom, eating energizes an explosion of the uncontrolled mind, especially when you are sleeping. At that time, you are unconscious, so this uncontrolled energy is magnified. In contrast to the monastic approach, which stresses avoidance, the essence of the tantric yoga method is for you to cultivate the wisdom that has the ability to unify blissful energy with nonduality, so that whenever you have a blissful experience it becomes nondual wisdom. Therefore, we should practice this yoga method of Vajrayogini as much as possible.

Notes

¹ The seed syllable associated with Vajrayogini is VAM (Skt; Tibetans pronounce it BAM). A seed syllable is a condensation in sound of the enlightened energy of the deity. [Return to text]