Archive: 2009 March

7. Two Kayas
(C. W. 37 The Two Trees)
Bodhi, bright essence in the heart
under what tree will you realize
the bliss known never to depart,
diamond light upon your eyes?
Nirmanakaya hues five-fold
adorn your body, scintillate:
this fact is certain to be told
and turned into a huge debate.
But let your blood tell you its truth,
how tremulous the current flows,
and how [...]

Refuge for the Unborn
Yeats Converted: Vajrayana in Verse
1. The Tantrika and the Terton
(C.W. 18, Fergus and the Druid)

Tantrika. This whole eve I have ventured through a dream
and seen you tracking forms among the stars:
first, the knot in the cord between two whales,
one leaping to Andromeda, the other diving west,
then, a spindle you divined, but [...]

Tantra is a way of heighten the experience of bliss that is natural to human beings and all sentient life, down to the molecular level. In Tantric sex you sink right into full-blown molecular bliss. This is also what happens in visionary trance induced by psychoactive plants, or medicine plants, when the practice is done correctly.

In Tantra, the mystic lore of the winds, the rainbow body, and so forth, is the raw material for imaginative passions that liberate those who surrender to them. Ultimately, surrender answers to the beauty of its own intensity,