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The clear luminous nature of mind is with us all of the time. Its the nature of
mind itself. Its the foundation on which all perception takes place. Keeping this mind
as the primary consciousness, keeping the clear light nature of mind as the primary
awareness, moving into the sense realm, maintaining the clear luminous nature of
mind as the object of awareness, realizing that all color and shape, sound and scent,
taste, sensations, objects of touch, and conceptual, discursive thoughts are not fixed
anywhere in time and space, but are illusory or illusive appearances that are
dependent upon causes and conditions yet have no fixed abode nor specific
destination. That the mind itself is without limitations that are imposed by time and
space. Realizing that the clear light nature of mind is the universal mind, re-inhabit
the ordinary sense realm viewing color and shape, sound, scent, taste, sense of
touch, thought as all being the expressions of pure appearance. They are the
manifestations of pure appearance. Pure means devoid of the taint of inherent
existence, of true existence.

Always, when finishing the meditation [pray]: May this meditation become the
cause for myself and all other universal living beings, all of them, every single one of
them, both in totality and one by one, to realize the wisdom of equanimity that
knows that all living beings are equal in their quest for happiness and to be released
from suffering. Through this meditation may myself and all other living beings realize
the unconditional compassion that yearns to see all living beings free from suffering;
and through the force of this meditation may myself and all other universal living
beings realize the universal and unconditional great love that yearns to see all living
beings abiding in everlasting happiness and the cause of happiness. Finally, through
the force of this meditation may myself and all other universal living beings, all of
them, realize the indestructible fearless joy of enlightenment, even going completely
beyond birth and death, through the force of this pristine wisdom, universal truth.
May this precious human existence become the door to the stages of the path all the
way to Buddhahood.

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 The inner fire meditation can be practiced when there’s a bit more time and one
can work with it for awhile. It requires a fair amount of equipment with the different
channels and drops. It requires setting up and takes a bit more time, while the
indestructible drop is a kind of a synthesis of that meditation that takes place in the
heart and it is very rapid, very quick. One thing about the inner re, actually both
meditations, is that they are physically very useful. They are good for the health as
well as helping to reveal the clear luminous nature of mind as a primary awareness
or primary consciousness. Inner fire in Tibetan is tummo which literally means fierce
goddess.

Make your body comfortable and sit in the meditation posture. Its not
absolutely necessary to sit cross-legged. One can sit in a chair. The main thing is that
the back is straight. The head should not be raised up or tilted too far forward but
just comfortably resting so that if one were to drop a grain of rice from the nose it
would just graze the belly button. The central channel should be straight as an arrow.
The hands should be resting in the lap in the gesture of meditation, the left hand first
and then the right hand resting in the upturned palm of the left hand, with the
thumbs touching. The thumbs are touching right around the level of the navel center.
Then just relax, and the arms should not be pressed against the sides or the ribcage
or too far out, but just resting naturally so that there can be the unimpeded
movement of air between the inner surface of the arms and the ribcage. The eyes
should not be too firmly closed or wide open, but just resting, kind of half and half.
This is called the stare of concentration, and then the last thing, the tongue is
pressed resting against the upper palate. This inhibits the ow of saliva so that the
inside of the meditator’s mouth remains moist without having to swallow too often.

First, in order to awaken the prana, see the body as being made of indestructible
rainbow light . Instead of identifying with the body as the atom-based flesh and
blood body, think of the body as being made of pure energy, blissful, and that the
whole body is conscious. Before beginning this meditation its always a good idea to
invoke all of the enlightened beings everywhere and to invite them to come and
bless the meditation by entering into [you], by absorbing the blessings of all of those
enlightened beings into this rainbow body and into the central channel and the right
and left channels, and the drops in the navel center and the drop in the crown
center.

The central channel is the size of the ring finger in diameter. It runs from the
crown center to the root center. Its white outside and red inside and also made of
light. Inside you think of it as being oily; so its slick and movement inside the central
channel is very easy because its slippery. The inner surface is slippery. Then the
chakras, these focal points of nervous system energy: the crown; the throat, which is
the root of the tongue; the heart, which is where you point when saying I; the navel,
which is the pit of the stomach where you feel butteries and also bliss; and the root
center inside of the perineum, just in front of the anal opening. All of these focal
points are inside of the center of the central channel. The central channel runs from
the crown center to the root center straight like an arrow. It doesn’t curve like the

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spinal chord. It is straight. It forms the axis of the body. In the center of the navel
center is a droplet of deep orange-red re essence in the form of a droplet, like liquid
re made of light, and its vital, alive and conscious. Its the distilled essence of heat,
radiant heat. Feel that in the pit of the stomach or the center of the navel center.
The drop of inner re blazes in the center of the navel center and radiates heat. The
droplet in the crown center is silvery white, like mercury, made of light, and its
energy is the distilled essence of ecstatic bliss. The ecstatic great bliss in secret
mantra is called (?)ki dewa chenpo which means the simultaneous great bliss. Its
related to the bliss of orgasmic ecstasy experienced at the height of orgasm. Its
related. The droplet in the crown is very powerful and radiant silvery white. Feel at
the center of the crown center a blissful energy emanating from that droplet.

From the left nostril is a white tube of light that ascends to the apex of the
cranium and then bending there like the staff of a shepherd, descends exactly
parallel to and almost touching the central channel, and then plugging into the
central channel at the trident. From the right nostril is the red tube of light that
curves also up to the apex of the cranium and also descends parallel to the central
channel, exactly the same as the left channel. The right channel is red and the left
channel is white, and they conjoin to the central channel four finger widths below
the navel center, and that place is called the trident or trusali. The central channel is
the same length as the right and left channels because it extends further down, all
the way to the perineum, but it terminates at the crown center while the right and
left channels begin at the nostrils and arch upward, but they terminate at the trident,
four finger widths below the navel. So those channels are the same length. The point
of entry into the central channel is at the trident, four finger widths below the navel.

First of all, we will do the nine round breathing exercise to clean the system of
channels, winds and drops. Inhale deeply from the abdomen and ll the lungs with air.
Relax and exhale deeply and expel all of the air from the lungs. Block the right nostril
with the right index finger and inhale through the left nostril pulling the energy all
the way to the trident. Hold the breath at the trident and then block the left nostril
and exhale through the right expelling all of the negativity in the right channel. Block
the right and inhale through the left, holding the breath in the trident, and block the
left nostril and exhale through the right, expelling all the negativity in the right
channel and all the blocks in the right channel. Block the right and inhale through the
left all the way to the trident. Hold the breath in the trident and now as you block
the left nostril the energy crosses over at the trident and leaves from the opposite
channel exhaling through the right.

Now leaving the left nostril blocked, inhale through the right and hold the
breath in the trident. Block the right nostril and exhale through the left, expelling all
of the negativity and blockages in the left channel. Block the left and inhale through
the right. Hold the breath at the trident, and then hold the right nostril and exhale
through the left channel expelling all of the negativity in the left channel and make
the left channel completely clean and clear inside. Then block the left and inhale
through the right all the way to the trident, four finger widths below the navel. Hold

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the breath at the trident and then block the right nostril and exhale through the left,
cleaning the left channel.

Now without blocking either nostril, breath in through both, pulling the energy
all the way into the trident and holding the breath at the trident. Now as you relax
and exhale evenly, feel that the current enters into the central channel from the
right and left channels and cleans the inside of the central channel. Inhale through
both and then hold the breath at the trident, relax, and as you exhale, the current
rushes into the central channel and makes it completely clean and clear and blissful
inside. The third time, inhale through both, holding the breath at the trident, and
then relax and exhale. The prana rushes into central channel and it is made very
radiant and clear and blissful inside.

[Now we will ignite the droplet of inner re in the navel center using the vase
breathing meditation.] Again, inhale, swallow and feel that the saliva descends down
the central channel to the droplet of inner re at the navel center and completely
wakes it up and makes it very ferocious and powerful. Relax and exhale. Then inhale,
press the diaphragm down and retract the muscles of the pelvic floor upwards,
pulling the energy of the lower chakra up and making a compression around inner re
in the center of the navel center causing it to become hotter and hotter. Relax and
exhale, and heat vapor ascends upwards inside of the central channel, warming its
inner surface. Inhale through both, make the vase breathing meditation by pressing
the diaphragm down, pulling the muscles of the pelvic floor upwards and making a
compression around inner fire, which, moment to moment, becomes hotter and
hotter due to compression. Relax and exhale, and heat ascends inside the central
channel. Inhale, make the vase breathing meditation by pressing the diaphragm
downward and drawing the muscles of the pelvic floor upwards but not pressing too
hard. In the pit of the stomach, inner fire gets hotter and hotter in the navel center
from the compression around the droplet. Relax and exhale, and the heat ascends
inside of the central channel making it warm and blissful. Inhale, make the vase
breathing meditation and as you do, inner fire under pressure becomes hotter and
hotter and hotter. Relax and exhale and heat ascends inside of the central channel.
Inhale, vase breathing meditation; inner fire getting hotter and hotter. Relax and
exhale and inner fire increases in heat. Last time inhale, vase breathing meditation
and a powerful radiant heat from the center of the navel center becomes hotter and
hotter and more and more powerful.

Now, no longer focusing on breathing anymore, focus all of your concentration

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 Now that the navel center is filled, the core of inner fire, like the core of the sun,
produces more and more radiant heat, and more and more inner re begins to ll the
central channel, having filled the navel center it fills the central channel downwards
towards the root center and upwards towards the heart center, and the source is the
inner re in the center of the navel center. So it fills the inside of the central channel
with a blissful and radiant heat. Inner re reaches simultaneously the center of the
heart center and the center of the root center, and as the blazes of inner fire reach
each and touch each of these centers, feel an ecstatic and blissful heat fill that center
as it fills with inner fire.

Now feel that the root center, the navel center and the heart center and the
central channel connecting them are completely filled with inner re experiencing a
blissful and radiant warmth. The navel center continuing to produce inner fire which
fills the central channel. Inner fire rising in the central channel from the heart center
toward the throat center, bringing a radiant and glowing and blissful warmth
wherever it touches. Reaching the center of the throat center and touching the
center of the throat center, the throat center experiences a radiant and blissful heat
as it fills with inner fire. The navel center continues to produce more and more inner
fire. It rises inside the central channel like mercury rising inside a thermometer. The
heat increases as it ascends from the throat center into the crown center in the
center of the head.

Inner fire touches the droplet of great bliss in the crown and when it touches
that droplet, a surge of great bliss courses through the body from the crown center,
all the way to the tips of the toes. Then the blazes of inner re envelop the droplet of
great bliss like flower petals of fire envelope the stamen, and the rest of the crown
center fills with inner fire. Now the five chakras are completely filled with glowing
radiant heat and the central channel is completely pervaded by a ferocious and
blissful heat of inner fire continuously getting hotter and hotter and hotter, making
the rainbow body warmer and warmer and warmer. Feeling more and more radiant,
a glowing radiant heat throughout the rainbow body.

Then from the five centers, inner fire is distributed throughout the whole
rainbow body, through thousands and thousands of nerves that are like conduits for
inner fire. So from the root center inner fire begins to pervade the sacroplexus and
fill the legs from the hips downward all the way to the toes. From the navel center
the abdominal cavity is filled with inner fire. From the heart center the chest, solar
plexus, is filled with inner fire; from the throat center the throat, neck, the shoulders,
upper chest and then from the trunk of the rainbow body, inner fire fills the arms.
From the crown center inner fire fills the entire head with a glowing radiant blissful
heat.

So the central channel and the five channel wheels, chakras, fill the whole
rainbow body with the glowing radiant heat of inner fire. For a few moments focus
on the whole rainbow being filled with inner fire, like a samadhi meditation. The
navel center continues to produce more and more inner fire that completely devours
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a few moments focus on inner fire becoming hotter and hotter and hotter. Using
that like samadhi meditation, the hotter inner fire becomes, the more negativity it
devours. So the more negativity there is, the hotter inner fire blazes because its food
is negativity. Physical problems, emotional conflict and dualistic view, inner fire
becomes hotter and hotter and hotter completely devouring the experience, and the
cause of the wheel of conditioned existence, and even the most subtle obscurations,
are consumed by inner fire. So inner fire completely pervades the rainbow body, the
fingers and toes, the eyelids, lips, nostrils, the earlobes and every extremity of the
body leaving no part of the rainbow body out. Devouring all negativity, inner fire
becomes hotter and hotter. The whole rainbow body abides in a glowing radiant
warmth. So for awhile keep that concentration on inner fire burning in the rainbow
body and purifying all discursive thought, illnesses and hindrances.

The heat of inner fire fully pervades the crown center and the silvery white drop
of great bliss. Its heat is the catalyst that causes the blissful nature of the drop in the
crown center to be released and become the simultaneous great bliss. It melts and
as it melts it begins to ow and to run and where ever it touches it brings the
experience of the simultaneous great bliss. Now the droplet of great bliss in the
crown has completely melted and become fluid. The droplet brings ecstatic great
bliss. The crown center is filled with the silvery white nectar of great bliss, which is
synonymous with pristine wisdom. It continues to flow downward inside of the
central channel, increasing in bliss as it descends and bringing great bliss wherever it
touches. The source of this nectar is the core of great bliss in the center of the crown
center. The nectar flows inside of the central channel coating the inner lining of the
central channel and filing it, reaching the throat center and touching the center of
the throat center, and the throat center experiences great bliss as it fills with nectar.
The crown center continues to produce nectar in an ever-increasing abundance.
From the throat center it continues to spill down inside of the central channel, owing
like warm honey inside of the central channel downward toward the heart center.
Reaching the center of the heart center and touching the center of the heart center.
The heart center experiences great bliss which increases as it fills with nectar. The
crown center continues to produce nectar. The heart center being filled, the nectar
in the central channel continues to ow downward. The bliss increases, becoming
more and more powerful as it descends.

The source of the nectar is in the center of the crown center. The nectar reaches
the center of the navel center and touching the source of inner fire in the center of
the navel center, like pouring fuel on a blaze, a powerful surge of blissful heat
courses through the body from the navel center. The naval center fills with blissful
nectar. The crown center continues to produce more and more nectar and it
continues to ll the central channel downward from the navel center toward the root
center, reaching the center of the root center and touching the center of the root
center, and that center experiences great bliss as it fills with nectar.

Now the five centers and the central channel are filled with the silvery white
nectar of great bliss like nectar made of light. The nectar of pristine wisdom. So the
five centers and the central channel are filled with the blissful nectar of pristine

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wisdom. The nectar spreads from the five centers, filling the entire rainbow body like
inner re was before. It fills the head, the throat, the chest, the abdomen, the
sacroplexus, the shoulders, inside the arms and legs all the way to the tips of the
fingers and toes in every extremity, leaving no part of the rainbow body out. Then
relax, the rainbow body hovers or remains with exquisite blissful heat. The rainbow
body becomes completely filled with nectar made of light. What the rainbow body
experiences as blissful heat, the cognition of the mind experiences as its own clear
luminous nature. Pristine wisdom is the clear luminous nature of consciousness
reflecting the mere absence of inherent existence. Bare awareness, beyond words,
beyond thought.

What the body experiences as blissful heat, the mind is experiencing as its own
pristine, clear, luminous nature. Focus the mind one pointedly in the blissful
experience of clear light. Clear light nature of mind as the reflection of timeless and
boundless truth. Existence has no limit, no beginning, no distinctions. It is beyond
birth and death. So with the pure subtle cognition of mind itself, seal the mind with
eternal wisdom and see the emptiness of inherent existence. Now for a few
moments remain in the blissful experience of clear light. Relaxing, just peer into the
mind, gaze intently at the mind itself like a child gazing deeply into the sky. Then
without breaking the continuity of the meditation, use the clear light of the mind as
the meditation object. The mind itself being clear, having no color nor shape, and the
mind being luminous and pure, as its endowed with the power of cognition that
illumines or reveals the universe and universal truth. The universe is revealed
through the mind and so the mind is luminous. So moment to moment, with the
mind, meditate upon the mind itself. Keep the focus directed toward the mind itself.
Let go and relax. The more you let go, the more vivid the meditation becomes.