Wednesday, November 13, 2024

A great website on physical yoga in Tibetan traditions

Here is a great website on physical yogas in Tibetan traditions Tsering Dorji's Newsletter The blog describes itself this way: "Having studied Buddhism in both monastic and academic settings for the past twenty years, I have now been studying (body-oriented) yoga in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism for the past three years, developing and refining an approach to the ancient Tibetan texts that is both rigorous and reverent. In this Newsletter you will find English translations of ancient Tibetan scriptures on yoga with Tibetan text translated by me, which are not published anywhere else.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

My two favorite entheogens are...

My favorite entheogens are 5-MeO-DMT and Salvia Divinorum. If you include smoked DMT, which I have yet to try) they are the most powerful entheogens in the world. It is almost impossible to keep contact with consensus reality while using them. It is almost also impossible to remember there even is such a thing. An added benefit is they only last about 20 minutes... So, even if things take a bad turn it doesn't last long. I've had 2 bad trips in my life, and both were with 2C-T-7 which last 8 to 15 hours (similar to LSD's 8-12 hours). That is way too long to be on a bad trip. I think 5-MeO-DMT may actually bring people very close to the "source code" of reality far more often than other entheogens. Salvia on the other hand seems to often plunge one into entirely different realties.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Yogas and the chakras

Kundalini-yoga

In Tibetan yoga, there are several terrms for kundlini-yoga (candali-yoga)
kundali and kundalini are terms for the same thing as candali and candalini: caṇḍālī: चण्डाली (Tibetan: གཏུམ་མོ་, tummo) kundali: कुण्डलि Caṇḍālinī: चण्डालिनी kuṇḍalinī: कुण्डलिनी Yoga: योग

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Yoga danda

This is a yoga-danda. Yoga-danda litterally means "yogic stick" but specifically refers to this instrument which can be used to change nostil dominace. The Western research on nostil dominance seems to have mixed results (which I am certain can be resolved by looking at the research methodology critically). In general, nostril dominance is associated with various physical, mental, emotional states within yogic traditions. I am confident these will mostly be proved accurate in carefully controled research. Simply put, press the yoga-danda into the left armpit, and the right nostril will open more... And visa-vesa. A truly simple life-hack.

Saturday, March 2, 2024

The Strangest Book on the Six Yogas of Naropa

I own many books on the Six Yogas of Naropa. This book is easily the oddest of them. Despite this (or mabe because of it) it is also one of the most interesting. Whimsical and weird, it still offers many practical and useful insights. Check it out: The Tantric Cookbook of Nini Tantrini

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Karmamudra Text

Many texts on the Six Yoga of Naropa mention the use of karmamudra (sexo-yogic practices), expecially as an adjunct to, and extenion of, Tummo training. Many Six Yogas texts state karmaudra is absolutely necesary for the attainment of the Illusory Body. Very little of any practical value has been writen in English on the topic of Karmamudra. The below text is a rare exception

Karmamudra-Nida-Chenagstang by Isidro Castaño Marquez