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Refers to the union between deity and consort. +
The fifth of the six yogas that make up an alternative categorization of the completion stage. Recollection is included in the stage of union from the five stages. ''See also'' six-branch yoga. +
Often refers to the practice of a visualized deity form disappearing into emptiness or to the impure illusory body disappearing into the clear light. +
Euphemism for male sex organ, often just referred to as ''jewel''. +
In this work this term refers to the fourth- stage actual clear light. +
Central channel. ''See also'' channel. +
A way of dividing the completion stage of tantra into substages.
:1. ''body and speech isolation'': When using the set of five, body isolation and speech isolation are grouped together. Speech isolation includes vajra repetition (''rod rje zlas pa'', ''vajrajāpa'') and prāṇāyāma (''srog rtsol'').
:2. ''mind isolation'':. Also known as ''focus on the mind'' (''seems la dmigs pa'')
:3. ''illusory body'': Also known as ''self-consecration'' (''bdag la byin brlabs'', ''svādhiṣṭhāna''), where "self" refers to the subtle wind imputed as self and "consecrate" means to transform (Phabongkha, ''Compilation of Notes'', 126)
:4. ''actual clear light'': Also known as ''mastery'' (''mngon par byang chub, abhisambodhi'').
:5. ''union'': Includes the practice and no-further-practice stages of union +
Often coupled with the six sides, these are four particular modes, or types, of tantric text. The work is said to be sealed by these four modes and cannot be fully understood without their recognition. The four are open mode, general or shared mode, hidden or exclusive mode, and ultimate mode. +
The advance tantric practice of forcing the consciousness to enter the corpse or living body of another being. +
Channels that carry the winds are grouped together at certain "vital points" within the body, such as the heart, navel, and throat, often in a form resembling the spokes of a wheel or petals of a lotus. The Tibetan term means "channel wheels". +
The term ''byang chub'' often refers to enlightenment or buddhahood and is usually short for ''rdzogs pa'i byang chub'' ("complete enlightenment"). The fundamental meaning of ''byang chub'' alone, however, is to perfect, or to master, and it is used to describe the mastery of a particular science such as medicine. In this work ''mngon par byang chub'' is primarily a synonym of fourth-stage clear light and is rendered as "mastery." The same term is found in generation-stage practices when referring to the visualized transformation of the practitioner into the five buddhas by way of seed syllables, and in such instances, I have used enlightenment" to distinguish it from the completion-stage practice and to indicate that such a transformation, although imagined, is a transformation into the forms of enlightened deities. +
Tiny matter-based phenomena that occur naturally within the body, or are "created" through completion-stage meditation, and that are located at particular points in the body. The indestructible drop is always present, located in the heart cakra, and consists of the subtle wind and subtle mind. Other drops are visualized at various "tips" within the body. +
Not listening, like an upturned pot; perverting the message, like a dirty pot; not retaining, like a leaky pot. +
Two dissolution processes beginning from the extremities and proceeding toward the heart; likened to vapor evaporating on a mirror. "Whole" is glossed as being the body;"held" means being held by the emptiness, or clear light, into which the body dissolves. Subsequent dissolution is dissolution in which the outer environment dissolves first, followed by the subsequent dissolution of the body. +
The inner heat or fire generated by the force of the winds entering the central channel from the practice of penetrating the vital points of the cakras. +
In the Kālacakra the completion stage is taught by way of these six yogas and not by way of the five stages. The same six names appear in the ''Guhyasamāja Later Tantra'' but not in the ''Guhyasamāja Root Tantra'' itself. Much discussion, therefore, is given over to the identification of these six and how they are incorporated into the five stages. The six are: individual withdrawal, meditative absorption, prāṇāyāma, apprehending, recollection, and samādhi. +
The main resident and residence mandala of the generation stage. +
Visualized consort. The term ''mudrā'' (seal) refers to the consorts ability to seal the yogi with great bliss. ''See also'' karma consort. +
The ordinary state of existence, whose natural processes of birth, death, and intermediate state are mirrored and used in tantric practice to advance on the path. +
The actualization of clear light before the illusory body has been developed; can be generated from the practice of body isolation onward. ''See also'' actual clear light. +
