YOGA OF PSYCHIC HEAT Overview

Introduction

Contents

This section contains the following topics:

Topic Posture Dispelling the impure winds Visualizing the body as empty Visualizing the channels Travel within the central channel Visualizing the letters Vase breath (igniting the flame of the letter A ) Causing the inner fire to blaze Blazing and dripping Extraordinary blazing and dripping See Page

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

POSTURE

SEVEN POINTS POSTURE

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

SPINE STRAIGHT EYES ON THE TIP THE NOSE NECK BEND SO CHIN TOUCH THE ADAM APPLE HANDS BENEATHE THE NAVEL NOSE NAVEL AND HANDS FORM AT STRAIGHT LINE SHOULDER PARALELL TO THE FLOOR PLACE TONGUE GENTLY AGAINST THE UPPER PALATE

Dispelling the impure winds

NINE ROUND BREATH

1. Do this a. b. c. d.

2. Do this a. b. c. d.

3. Do this a. b. c. d.

three times Inhale through left nostril, Gaze right, Hold, Exhale through right nostril in three parts i. First, breath out gently and then ii. Strongly and then iii. Gently again three times Inhale through right nostril, Gaze left, Hold, Exhale through left nostril in three parts i. First, breath out gently and then ii. Strongly and then iii. Gently again three times Inhale through both nostrils, Gaze straight ahead, Hold, Exhale through both nostrils in three parts i. First, breath out gently and then ii. Strongly and then iii. Gently again

Round
First three rounds Second three rounds Third three rounds

Inhale
through left nostril through right nostril through both nostrils

Gaze
right left straight ahead

Hold

Exhale
through right nostril through left nostril through both nostrils

Visualizing the body as empty

Method

See the physical body with all of its contents melt into light, then See the skin as clear or transparent blue or red but empty like the rainbow, then, See the inside of the body, from head to toes, as clear and empty.

Visualizing the channels and centers

Channels for meditation

There are three channels: 1. The central channel starts from the secret place (sacral center) straight up to the crown center and then curve around to the front and end at the third eye. 2. The right channel starts from the secret place (sacral center) straight up to the crown center and then curve around to the front and end at the right nostril. 3. The left channel starts from the secret place (sacral center) straight up to the crown center and then curve around to the front and end at the left nostril. The right and left channels form: 1. One knot at the navel center, 2. Three knots at the heart center, 3. One knot at the throat center, and 4. One knot at the crown center. The right, left channels joint at the secret place and the third eye.

In some system, the navel center is actually at the sacral area while the secret place is at base region of the spine or the base of the sexual organ.

The characteristics of the channels

The left channel (speech) is: white, clear and transparent, flexibly soft, and the sun.

The central channel (mind) is: blue outside and oily red inside, clear and transparent, very straight, and flexibly soft

The right channel (body) is: red clear and transparent, flexibly soft, and the moon

The characteristics of the centers

Location

Name

Shape of center

Number of spokes

Bija* Color

Direction of arching

Crown Throat Heart Navel

Wheel of great bliss Wheel of enjoyment Wheel of phenomena Wheel of emanation

Triangle Circle Circle Triangle

32 16 8 64

White Red White Red

HAM White OM Red HUM Blue AM Red

Down Up Down Up

* The bija letters is inside the central channel

The practice

Now concentrate on visualizing the central channel that runs down the centre of your

body as straight, hollow, about the size of an arrow-shaft. Expand the visualization until the channel becomes large enough to contain the universe. Again, shrink your visualized image until the hollow channel is no more than one-hundredth the thickness of a human hair.

Travel within the central channel

The practice

See yourself within the neural drop at the heart center. Inspect the heart center. Travel up the central channel to the throat center. Inspect the throat center. Travel up the central channel to the crown center. Inspect the crown center. Travel up the central channel to the navel center. Inspect the navel center. Travel to the entering wind at the secret place.

Note: always return the neural drop back to the heart before ending the practice.

Visualizing the letters

HAM

At the crown center and inside the central channel see

the white letter HAM on a moon disk on top of the letter HAM is the crescent on top of the crescent is the sun circle sphere on top of the sun sphere is the nada

OM

At the throat center and inside the central channel see

the red letter OM on a moon disk on top of the letter OM is the crescent on top of the crescent is the sun sphere on top of the sun sphere is the nada

HUM

At the heart center and inside the central channel see

the blue letter HUM on a moon disk on top of the letter HUM is the crescent on top of the crescent is the sun sphere on top of the sun sphere is the nada

AM

At the navel center and inside the central channel see

the red letter AM on a moon disk on top of the letter AM is the crescent on top of the crescent is the sun sphere on top of the sun sphere is the nada

Between the secret place to the navel center and inside the central channel see

the fiery and transparent yellow/red letter A on a moon disk on top of the letter A is the crescent on top of the crescent is the sun sphere on top of the sun sphere is the nada

Vase breath (igniting the flame of the letter A )

The practice

1. Inhale the prana (upper air)by:

fill up the belly, and then fill up the lung.

2. Once the lung is full,

Pressing the air below the navel, Contract the sphincter muscle to bring the apana (lower air) to the secret place, Hold the prana and apana at the navel center as long as possible. 3. Exhale in two phases: a. slowly at first, and then b. toward the end of the expiration empty the lung forcefully.

Vase breath visualization in four stage

1. 2. 3. 4.

Inhale, Filling, Dissolving, and Shooting.

Inhale

Visualize the prana is being drawn into the nostrils from a distance of a about ten inches from the nose

Filling

Visualize the prana inflate the right and left channel.

Dissolving

Visualize the letter A between the secret place and the navel center inside the central channel 1. draws the prana (from the right and left channel) and apana (from the lower contraction) into the central channel, and then 2. dissolve both airs into the letter A inside the central channel by holding the prana and apana between the navel center and the secret place as long as possible.

Shooting

At exhalation, visualize both dissolving airs at the letter A shoot up the central channel like an arrow.

Causing the inner fire to blaze

The kiss of the higher and lower force

The kiss of the higher and lower force occurs at two places during the four phases breathing cycle: 1. Compression during Kumbakha of the inhalation phases: a. Bringing the upper force and lower force to the letter A inside the central channel. b. The letter A becomes transparent and hot as the two forces dissolves into one with the letter A. 2. Compression during Kumbakha of the exhalation phases: a. Bringing the upper force and lower force to the letter A inside the central channel. b. The letter A becomes transparent and hot as the two forces dissolves into one with the letter A.
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Causing the inner fire to blaze, Continued

The Blazing

The result of the repeat kissing of the higher and lower force at the letter A between the secret place and the navel center inside the central channel, the letter A becomes: 1. transparent, 2. hot, 3. brilliant (blazing)and then 4. the transparent, hot and brilliant spread (shooting) upward within the central channel.

Blazing and Dripping