Chod through Mathuna
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Oil on silk
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A depiction of male and female in sexual union, manifesting in the forms of Vajrayogini and Heruka, is anything but scary.
Maithuna is a Sanskrit term for sexual union, a yoga of marriage.
To preserve the purity and sanctity of these practices, Maithuna was kept secret for thousands of years. Sexual practice has long been known to bring transcendental bliss, whether in the Black Tantra of orgasm or White Tantra of withholding at the moment of orgasm to internalize and ascend the feeling.
Sadly, abuse of knowledge happens, globally and historically the misuse of sex occurs, resulting in the abuse of many students by their 'gurus' and fatally transmitted diseases as well as the black magic associated with these sacred rituals.
In more recent years, the knowledge has become more public and with the spread of Eastern esoteric wisdoms into the West, the practices of Tantric sex seemed to become misunderstood.
They say - In these degenerate times, the practice of sacred sex has become an 'excuse' for much sexual misconduct. Even with the best intentions, the new-agers - however they like to paint it, according to ancient texts, have misconstrue the teachings in favor of multiple sexual partners when it is in reality, they say, it is within the sanctity of a monogamous equal union when the profound ascension can occur.
This is a truly transformational yoga which can only occur with time, trust, truth, work, respect, perseverance, total egoic surrender. Egoic death whilst still in the body. No romance here. Not reliant upon another to do the work for us, but a mutual coming together.
In this form of high tantra, in a similar vein to the Native Indians who's men protect the women from harm so the women can 'teach them the way home' it is through the mutual dance that allows the typically more spiritually intuitive woman to help the man grow. Many ancient Buddhist stories speak of the enlightenment attained by those who are ready for this type of union. 'She' maybe in the form of a lowly wine-seller ( as in the story of Ghantapa ) whose social status is of not much worth but in reality she was Vajrayogini who saw it was time for him to receive her blessings. In this painting, he supports her as she bestows him her bliss.
In Tibet, A knife called a Kartika is used to cut meat and flay flesh. In a land where the earth is solid and a belief that the one last humanly gift we can give is that of our dead body to feed the living, the dead were/are chopped and left for the birds to eat. (The 'burial' is highly respectful as one can expect from a deeply spiritual people).
In Chod, there is the offering of our earthly bodies, a symbolic death, a separation from the mundane mindbody and ultimate wisdom. Vajrayogini, being the highest primordial Buddha in female creation form, carries a kartika. She cuts away the ignorance. Now I love pigs and they are highly intelligent creatures, but in Tibetan Buddhism they represent ignorance. It is the 'intelligent ignorance' of mankind, lost in a left-brained ego based reality. So in this painting, the male has two heads. The outer pig 'mask' then the human that was hidden inside, none the less, the human form still needed to be stripped away as well to allow the ultimate bliss to fill him.
This spiritual journey can be hard for most of us and often takes situations to facilitate this evolution. In Chod, this 'Shamanic' practice is done very consciously.
Vajrayogini, ( more about her here ) the Primordial creator, the Queen Dakini, the unfettered female, giver of life resulting in inevitable death, misunderstood, feared and therefore historically demonized by those threatened, is traditionally depicted with a trace of blood falling from one of her fangs. Her fangs are representative of the four noble truths and the attainment over the four maras and the drop of blood, the blood of life force, is a drop of Great Bliss, (the original blood drop is found at the navel and the quintessential drop is the indestructible drop found at the heart, the drop that splits at the moment of death). As we can see, the blood is pouring down from Heruka's fang, and from the skull cup that Vajrayogini extends to him, filling the body below with supreme bliss.
She has a fire body - generates her inner heat of Great Wisdom Bliss and offers it to him.
This is an inner heat during the intimacy of sexual intercourse but extends into our daily interpersonal intimate relationships.
Through his willing to be stripped of ego he allows her to transform him to a greater version of himself.
Heruka, the 'blood drinker', the embodiment of indivisible bliss and emptiness, the wrathful male deity who loves all sentient beings with such ferocity that he facilitates in Her flaying of his earthly male counterpart's ego and is a conduit for the 'bloody' Great Bliss that Vajrayogini gifts him.
In Tibet, the traditional greeting is with that of the tongue extended. This stems from a time of Bon when the Dzungar people invaded Tibet and feared the Bonpos and Nyingmas' magical recitations. A belief that reciting these mantras would turn their tongues brown or black, the Dzungar officials would insist upon seeing the tongues of Tibetans, the result - death for many natives. It morphed into a volunteer 'practice' that to this day now says 'I have nothing to hide'
Aside from the obvious sexual implications of the tongues pressed against each other, they are also 'saying' I have no secrets from you. I have nothing to hide.
These two personified cosmic forces are adorned with their typical jeweled skull crowns of the wisdom Buddhas and surrounded by bliss flames of supreme awareness. Their third eye - seeing beyond the veils of mundane perception - are fully opened. Their three eyes each, understanding the true nature of past present and future.
Only with heart may one enter.
In all cultures it would seem, dating far back into history, the Elixir of Life appears to be in the mixing of red and white, the mixing and uniting of opposites.
The moon is considered masculine in many cultures a full moon's 'milky white energy' resembling semen, was even thought to be able to impregnate women. To wit- in stories of vampires and werewolves..the seductive blood drinkers and men effected by the full moon are immortal 'enemies' yet inextricably bound until love creates the 'hybrid' who unifies the two and brings about a super species.
In ophiolatry (serpent worship-one of the oldest most prevalent sacred practices in the world that is found, morphed in root texts of nearly all the world's religions and spiritual practices) the snake is the bringer of life and death. It holds it's own antidote to it's deathly bite as well as it's skin sloughing symbolism of rebirthing. The venom helps T-cell replication as well as psychoactive properties, leaving the consumer's health boosted and transcending to higher states of reality. Traditionally, this mixing of blood and venom was done in a skull cup, the root, both physically and esoterically of the Holy Grail.
The Anahata is associated with the thymus gland where T-cells are produced. At her heart here,
Vajrayogini traditionally wears a mirror, reflecting truth.
In the case of this painting however, naturally it is Secret Tantric practice of mixing menstrual blood and semen where transpersonal experiences are reached. Ancient tantric images from the east actually have blood and semen spattered over the paintings. Red Tantra is the practice of sexuality and white Tantra of spirituality.
The ascending kundalini serpent energy rising up from the sexual centers as blood and semen mix.
The lotus disk on which these transcending lovers are seated, is covered in red and white, dripping earthward.
Dance together. Support her and
allow her to evolve you.
You see, apart from a few very exceptional cases, it is more than the mere act of sex or fleeting heart connection.
Yes, we can love many. Yes we strive for non-attachment. Yes we work on non-projection. Yes we can and often do, engage in significantly evolving relationships. Today's relationship with women is in a confused state of flux stemming back a couple of thousand years. Ancient India is a perfect example of how a Goddess worshiping country has fallen to a land where many women are treated worse than the worst criminals, resulting in thousands of deaths a year and here in the west, something as apparently superficial as salary has been grossly unequal resulting in an unbalanced society.Yet we have much talk of the return of the Divine Feminine. Many men 'love women so much' though, that, whether it is from a 'misogynistic rappers' view point, or that of 'Goddess loving Guru' or man in awe of woman, the female still occupies a place of 'objectification' to the males' desires and (unconscious) feeling of supremacy or inadequacy, whilst simultaneously many women have opted for donning the Goddess archetype, using sexuality and engaging with many sexual partners. It is not to say that one should remain in an unhealthy relationship nor a judgment for or against people's free will to do with their bodies as they wish. However, if someone is truly wishing to attain higher states of enlightenment through union, the often more challenging long haul "yoga of marriage" where the partners evolve each other, then the 'poly - love ' mantra that many site under the modern Neotantra seems far from appropriate. Kundalini may rise but the 'danger' is the energy exchange. Possibly worse for a genuine seeker, as it may keep the practitioner trapped in the illusion of attaining higher mind, of higher love.
Prints here and here
A depiction of male and female in sexual union, manifesting in the forms of Vajrayogini and Heruka, is anything but scary.
Maithuna is a Sanskrit term for sexual union, a yoga of marriage.
To preserve the purity and sanctity of these practices, Maithuna was kept secret for thousands of years. Sexual practice has long been known to bring transcendental bliss, whether in the Black Tantra of orgasm or White Tantra of withholding at the moment of orgasm to internalize and ascend the feeling.
Sadly, abuse of knowledge happens, globally and historically the misuse of sex occurs, resulting in the abuse of many students by their 'gurus' and fatally transmitted diseases as well as the black magic associated with these sacred rituals.
In more recent years, the knowledge has become more public and with the spread of Eastern esoteric wisdoms into the West, the practices of Tantric sex seemed to become misunderstood.
They say - In these degenerate times, the practice of sacred sex has become an 'excuse' for much sexual misconduct. Even with the best intentions, the new-agers - however they like to paint it, according to ancient texts, have misconstrue the teachings in favor of multiple sexual partners when it is in reality, they say, it is within the sanctity of a monogamous equal union when the profound ascension can occur.
This is a truly transformational yoga which can only occur with time, trust, truth, work, respect, perseverance, total egoic surrender. Egoic death whilst still in the body. No romance here. Not reliant upon another to do the work for us, but a mutual coming together.
In this form of high tantra, in a similar vein to the Native Indians who's men protect the women from harm so the women can 'teach them the way home' it is through the mutual dance that allows the typically more spiritually intuitive woman to help the man grow. Many ancient Buddhist stories speak of the enlightenment attained by those who are ready for this type of union. 'She' maybe in the form of a lowly wine-seller ( as in the story of Ghantapa ) whose social status is of not much worth but in reality she was Vajrayogini who saw it was time for him to receive her blessings. In this painting, he supports her as she bestows him her bliss.
In Tibet, A knife called a Kartika is used to cut meat and flay flesh. In a land where the earth is solid and a belief that the one last humanly gift we can give is that of our dead body to feed the living, the dead were/are chopped and left for the birds to eat. (The 'burial' is highly respectful as one can expect from a deeply spiritual people).
In Chod, there is the offering of our earthly bodies, a symbolic death, a separation from the mundane mindbody and ultimate wisdom. Vajrayogini, being the highest primordial Buddha in female creation form, carries a kartika. She cuts away the ignorance. Now I love pigs and they are highly intelligent creatures, but in Tibetan Buddhism they represent ignorance. It is the 'intelligent ignorance' of mankind, lost in a left-brained ego based reality. So in this painting, the male has two heads. The outer pig 'mask' then the human that was hidden inside, none the less, the human form still needed to be stripped away as well to allow the ultimate bliss to fill him.
This spiritual journey can be hard for most of us and often takes situations to facilitate this evolution. In Chod, this 'Shamanic' practice is done very consciously.
Vajrayogini, ( more about her here ) the Primordial creator, the Queen Dakini, the unfettered female, giver of life resulting in inevitable death, misunderstood, feared and therefore historically demonized by those threatened, is traditionally depicted with a trace of blood falling from one of her fangs. Her fangs are representative of the four noble truths and the attainment over the four maras and the drop of blood, the blood of life force, is a drop of Great Bliss, (the original blood drop is found at the navel and the quintessential drop is the indestructible drop found at the heart, the drop that splits at the moment of death). As we can see, the blood is pouring down from Heruka's fang, and from the skull cup that Vajrayogini extends to him, filling the body below with supreme bliss.
She has a fire body - generates her inner heat of Great Wisdom Bliss and offers it to him.
This is an inner heat during the intimacy of sexual intercourse but extends into our daily interpersonal intimate relationships.
Through his willing to be stripped of ego he allows her to transform him to a greater version of himself.
Heruka, the 'blood drinker', the embodiment of indivisible bliss and emptiness, the wrathful male deity who loves all sentient beings with such ferocity that he facilitates in Her flaying of his earthly male counterpart's ego and is a conduit for the 'bloody' Great Bliss that Vajrayogini gifts him.
In Tibet, the traditional greeting is with that of the tongue extended. This stems from a time of Bon when the Dzungar people invaded Tibet and feared the Bonpos and Nyingmas' magical recitations. A belief that reciting these mantras would turn their tongues brown or black, the Dzungar officials would insist upon seeing the tongues of Tibetans, the result - death for many natives. It morphed into a volunteer 'practice' that to this day now says 'I have nothing to hide'
Aside from the obvious sexual implications of the tongues pressed against each other, they are also 'saying' I have no secrets from you. I have nothing to hide.
These two personified cosmic forces are adorned with their typical jeweled skull crowns of the wisdom Buddhas and surrounded by bliss flames of supreme awareness. Their third eye - seeing beyond the veils of mundane perception - are fully opened. Their three eyes each, understanding the true nature of past present and future.
Only with heart may one enter.
In all cultures it would seem, dating far back into history, the Elixir of Life appears to be in the mixing of red and white, the mixing and uniting of opposites.
The moon is considered masculine in many cultures a full moon's 'milky white energy' resembling semen, was even thought to be able to impregnate women. To wit- in stories of vampires and werewolves..the seductive blood drinkers and men effected by the full moon are immortal 'enemies' yet inextricably bound until love creates the 'hybrid' who unifies the two and brings about a super species.
In ophiolatry (serpent worship-one of the oldest most prevalent sacred practices in the world that is found, morphed in root texts of nearly all the world's religions and spiritual practices) the snake is the bringer of life and death. It holds it's own antidote to it's deathly bite as well as it's skin sloughing symbolism of rebirthing. The venom helps T-cell replication as well as psychoactive properties, leaving the consumer's health boosted and transcending to higher states of reality. Traditionally, this mixing of blood and venom was done in a skull cup, the root, both physically and esoterically of the Holy Grail.
The Anahata is associated with the thymus gland where T-cells are produced. At her heart here,
Vajrayogini traditionally wears a mirror, reflecting truth.
In the case of this painting however, naturally it is Secret Tantric practice of mixing menstrual blood and semen where transpersonal experiences are reached. Ancient tantric images from the east actually have blood and semen spattered over the paintings. Red Tantra is the practice of sexuality and white Tantra of spirituality.
The ascending kundalini serpent energy rising up from the sexual centers as blood and semen mix.
The lotus disk on which these transcending lovers are seated, is covered in red and white, dripping earthward.
Dance together. Support her and
allow her to evolve you.
You see, apart from a few very exceptional cases, it is more than the mere act of sex or fleeting heart connection.
Yes, we can love many. Yes we strive for non-attachment. Yes we work on non-projection. Yes we can and often do, engage in significantly evolving relationships. Today's relationship with women is in a confused state of flux stemming back a couple of thousand years. Ancient India is a perfect example of how a Goddess worshiping country has fallen to a land where many women are treated worse than the worst criminals, resulting in thousands of deaths a year and here in the west, something as apparently superficial as salary has been grossly unequal resulting in an unbalanced society.Yet we have much talk of the return of the Divine Feminine. Many men 'love women so much' though, that, whether it is from a 'misogynistic rappers' view point, or that of 'Goddess loving Guru' or man in awe of woman, the female still occupies a place of 'objectification' to the males' desires and (unconscious) feeling of supremacy or inadequacy, whilst simultaneously many women have opted for donning the Goddess archetype, using sexuality and engaging with many sexual partners. It is not to say that one should remain in an unhealthy relationship nor a judgment for or against people's free will to do with their bodies as they wish. However, if someone is truly wishing to attain higher states of enlightenment through union, the often more challenging long haul "yoga of marriage" where the partners evolve each other, then the 'poly - love ' mantra that many site under the modern Neotantra seems far from appropriate. Kundalini may rise but the 'danger' is the energy exchange. Possibly worse for a genuine seeker, as it may keep the practitioner trapped in the illusion of attaining higher mind, of higher love.
