Yoga and Meditation : WESTERN SADHANA

THE GREAT BLISS OF SELF REALIZATION YOGA
(DECHEN RANGDROL YOGA)

LITURGY (SADHANA) OF DIRECT EXPERIENCE AND SELF REALIZATION FOR WESTERNERS

Authentic Yoginis and Yogins !

Good morning, and great joy to you Yoga and Dharma warriors o
This liturgy is culturally relative to authentic practitioners in the west o
And these geographical boundaries are not to be taken too literal o

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If you have fully practiced in the western austerities, and have purified through authentic practice, and find yourself with fortunate residual karma in Completion Stage Practices, then you are an appropriate vessel to apply the following o
And all will gain benefit to see the path ahead o
Please do not fear the path ahead o

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If your Karma is not yet ripe enough to apply this liturgy, and you aspire to ripen that Karma, then the instructions to start are very simple . . . DECELERATE, SIMPLIFY, CREATE SPACE, AND PRACTICE AUTHENTICALLY o
Practice authentically o
Be a warrior for space o
If you cannot relate to everything in this Liturgy, please do not fret, just work with what you do relate to, the rest will come in time o

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Please remember that the subtlest truths cannot be recognised by the intellect, and can only be seen with a joyful mind o
For westerners, the intellect should rarely steer your Yogic and Dharmic vessel o
The intellect will usually reject the subtlest profound truths, and trick you into thinking that it did not do so o
In eastern Yogic and Dharma cultures, increasing the intellect was beneficial on the path to
awakening o
In the hyper-intellectual west, however, the intellect is a great obstacle and hindrance o
The fatigued dualistic intellect is also a creator of this dark age o
There is nothing wrong with the intellect in its natural balance of boundless clarity, however, it does not generally possess the sensibilities to evaluate the subtle truths of the Dharma o
Especially in a fatigued state o
Once on the path of the Bhumis though, even the intellect will begin to recognise the truth o
The intellect is actually the false summit of the mountain o
So, please reside primarily in the post-intellectual realm o

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There is no higher aspiration in the human realm than the path of awakening o
A path for awakening in this western land, that is culturally relative to westerners, did not begin to exist up until recent history o
And increasingly, new trail is currently being broken o
You may already be aware that the human sequence for full authentic practice is physical practice, pranayama, and meditation o
For westerners, it is highly unlikely that nadi bindu and prana can be realized in this life without a physical practice o
And of course, this subtle body realization is required for Full Realization o
It is highly unlikely that you can attain Realization through many Liturgies (Sadhanas), Lungs, and Empowerments o
So, it is time to STOP acquiring new ones, it only takes one authentic Liturgy to help awaken o
Empowerments can be attained through the direct realization experience alone o
This IS the ultimate empowerment o
“ . . . and through direct transmission.”

In the west, Lungs and Empowerments can be impure with worldly desires, and sense pleasure desires o
In fact, each single individual experience is all that one needs to attain Realization o
Whether you drop your pen, climb a mountain, or travel around the world o
Whether it takes a minute, a second, a year, or a month, all that you need to attain Realization is contained in that single experience o
And Nirmanakaya travel is not required at all o
As a Tibetan Acharya once said “There are two types of travel . . . in the mind, and physically in the world. And the second one is not necessary.” o
This Liturgy is to help guide you to the subtlest nature of each single experience o

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In India, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and Asian Dharma countries, the Yoga and Dharma was developed and crafted to optimize its awakening benefit for those specific cultures o
Those Central Lands of Yoga and Dharma must be prostrated to o
For they are the mothers and fathers of Yoga and Dharma dissemination in this Nirmanakaya o
Unspeakably profound truths and teachings by Yogis, highly Realized Masters, and Buddhas o
However, western language and culture must be primary for a western seeker to relate to the Dharma o
This is the plain and simple truth o
In the west we do not need to intellectually study lists, paths, metaphors, and similes, of eastern Yoga and Dharma methods in Sanskrit or Tibetan languages o
We are to be exposed to them, and to understand them o
Optimally, we are to realize them, and then make them culturally relative o
Without judgement, we need to move past this romantic attachment to exotic cultures and that image of an awakened being o
What does a western Buddha look like ?
Drop these eastern Yoga and Dharma reference points o
Bring the path of Awakening to your homeland, wherever that may be o

Any westerner can only attain Realization in their geographical home o
A visit to Vulture Peak Mountain can be helpful if viewed properly, and not necessary o
Such a visit is rarely viewed properly, and often compared to one’s homeland, therefore becomes an impediment o
Both are equally potent o
With travel, it is that experience of fresh and new that does have wisdom o
If you are attached to it too much, it will destroy its benefit o
Upon early realization, the hometown road that you have walked on a thousand times is vivid, new, and fresh o
That is the nature of this moment o

The teachings from the east eventually hit a ceiling or huge obstacle of unrelatability here in the west o
Very often they can in fact repel many westerners o
The Dharma only works if it magnetizes o
Cultural Relativity is the golden key to opening the Universal Treasury of Awareness o
Once this is Realized, Cultural Relativity is the golden key to guiding westerners to the same o

Cultural relativity
Cultural relativity
Cultural relativity

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Only through much physical practice, pranayama, and authentic meditation, is one fully prepared to approach and enter the path of the Bhumis o
It can take months, years, or decades, to accomplish this depending on how fortunate one’s residual Karma is o
There is no luck found here, only maha-exertion in previous births, and merit gained o
From here, the following is the general progressive sequence for westerners o o o

Monkey mind; regular full discursiveness that you have gotten so used to o
Gaps in thought; glimpses of stillness that you now see is possible o
Quiet mind; the activity level of the mind attains near stillness o
Nonthought; the mind is perfectly still o
One Pointed Concentration; where you can hold nonthought for an indefinite period of time o
(One Pointedness in the highest teachings of the four Yogas of Mahamudra, is the same as One Pointedness in the Seventh Limb of Traditional Indian Yoga o)
Alya; the resting place of the mind o
Absorptive states; where one is in communion with the pure truth o

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There are many absorptive states o
Dream Yoga (originally Yoga Nidra in Traditional Indian Yoga), Samadhi, Pratyahara, and so on o
Pratyahara specifically being the highest and subtlest form of healing in the human birth experience o
Release right down to the Kalapas, or sub-atomic level o
The healing is the removal of blockages so we can see directly o
Pratyahara is also the missing piece of the puzzle in the Kagyu Completion Stage practices of Buddhadharma, as it somehow had failed to make the jump from the Indian Yoga Masters to the Tibetan Buddhist Lineage Holders o
A significant reason alone as to why so few fully realize the Completion Stage Practices like Dream Yoga or Phowa at this time o
Pratyahara is contained in the deepest union and familial love o
The family of the Buddhas and all sentient beings o
The deepest love is simply an element of your primary awakened Dharmakaya nature o
The deepest love also serves as the beacon to Pratyahara and all absorptive states, so we can see who we really are o

The purpose of absorptive states is at first to very rapidly resolve karma, to then clear the view and directly see the natures at play o
This is not the gradual path, this is the direct path o
At first mundane relative secondary natures, then Absolute indestructible natures at play, then the very Primary Nature itself o
Once any absorptive state is fully realized, then ALL of the absorptive states are fully realized o
Like different routes to the summit o
Once one route has fully topped out to Clear Light, then all routes are realized, and become
one o
So, work with the absorptive state that you relate with the most, and forget about the others o
Be ruthless with yourself for cutting concepts, ego, and attachment o
Please keep your hand on the sword of wisdom at all times and be ready to cut with an empty mind o

From the absorptive states, the Dharmakaya is realized o
From the Dharmakaya, Full Realization is then attained in the Nirmanakaya o

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The Dharmakaya is realized in four general stages o
In western terms, the first stage is an absorptive experience of the luminous infinite, with a localized view or perspective o
The second stage is a further absorptive experience of the luminous infinite where you can experience any area of the infinite at any temporal time o
The third stage is a bit of a pitfall o
Nothingness o
Here, the Yogini or