The Yeshe Lama: Jigme Lingpa's Dzogchen Atiyoga Manual by Keith Dowman

Author:Keith Dowman [Dowman, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

Addendum: Two Methods of Entering the Narrow Path of Integration:120 Structured and Unstructured

The Elaborate Structured Method: Four-Session Yoga

The Matrix of Clarity teaches that the method of constrained ritual practice consists of training in four-session yoga.121

In the first part of the predawn session, practice guruyoga; in the middle part, remain in Breakthrough; and in the final part, meditate on bliss-emptiness with the mystic heat (tummo). Then from dawn to sunrise, recite prayers, liturgies, mantra and so forth. After sunrise until noon, practice Leapover gazing. In the middle of the day, do prostrations and recite prayers. In the late afternoon, again practice Leapover meditation. At dusk, offer torma and bind the winds. In the first part of the evening session, meditate on death and impermanence; and in the latter part, practice the creative stage and mantra. In the midnight session, hide sleep in the cavern of clear light.

In all sessions, begin with the celebration of bodhichitta; for the foundation practice, abide in nonconceptual awareness; and at the end, seal the session with the dedication of merit and prayers of aspiration. Such recognition of threefold excellence is indispensable.

The Unelaborate Structured Method

The Shining Lamp says, “Treading gently towards continuous twenty-four hour a day practice...” for those who are training in Clear-light Leapover alone the way to attain some warmth in natural perfection is to renounce the ninefold activity of the daily round122 and constantly maintain the postures. Thereby we may abide in ineffable presence in the matrix of sublime being and the sole all-inclusive megapixel.

The night is divided into three parts. In the dusk session, sitting in the sage posture, the sense faculties are crucially gathered into themselves as follows. First, visualize the channels and chakras and maintain the kumbhaka vase breathing. Then, at the navel center, on top of a four-petalled red lotus, visualize the red short A glyph,123 hot to the touch, from which fire blazes up the central channel striking the glyph HAM at the crown center, melting the white seminal nuclei, 124 which drip into the fire, increasing the flame, incinerating all karma and mental propensity. Finally, rest in the space of bliss-emptiness.

In the midnight session, in the lion posture, “gather all perception into the vase”:125 at the heart center visualize a white glyph A, shining brilliantly; at the brahmarandhra aperture visualize another white glyph A; and in between the two, within the avadhuti, a stack of A glyphs strung together like a crystal rosary. The A glyphs dissolve one into the other and finally into the A glyph in the heart center, and the central channel is illuminated internally as if by a beam of sunlight through a skylight.126 That is the crucial meaning of “hidden in the cavern of clear light”.

Immediately you wake up, in the dawn session, expel three long breaths articulating them as the sound HA. Then, sitting in the posture of the lion, from a white glyph A at the heart center, shoot another white glyph A up the central channel into space to the

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