Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen introduces the foundational practices of the Inner Heat yoga within the Six Yogas of Naropa in this 47-minute session. He begins with preparation—generating intention through visualization of oneself as a chosen deity without a consort and cultivating the sense of a hollow, transparent body. He then outlines the eight main divisions of the practice: nine-round breathing meditation, channel visualization, letter placements, igniting inner heat, blazing, and dripping. The core instruction focuses on the nine-round breathing meditation, where practitioners alternate nostril awareness to clear channel obstructions with colored light, and six supplementary physical exercises including vase breathing meditation and dynamic movements of the torso, shoulders, and spine. These preliminaries purify the subtle body and prepare practitioners for later advanced work with blissful winds and the realization of emptiness. Suitable for those who have received Naropa initiation.
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File: 1993-12-05 – 1B – Inner Heat Retreat – KR.mp3
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Teacher: Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen
Collection: Six Yogas of Naropa
Date: 1993-12-05
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~1,174
And making request. Requests that, in general, that one might gain the realizations of the two stages of the path, the generation stage and completion stage, and in particular particular that that, the the that you might requesting that the blissful winds be generated within the wind energies, blissful wind energies, and that your channels be healthy channels, and that you develop quickly the special realization of this emptiness. So it and this should be meditated on early in the morning? The time of meditation when one’s intellect is clear, fresh. And it’s not the meditation is not performed with a consort.
One does not visualize oneself as a consort. If one is Heruka, then Heruka without a consort or Yamāntaka without a consort or Vajrayoginī. And so oneself in the aspect of the deity without the consort, the consort that we should imagine that that your body is hollow. Internally, it’s empty. Just like, you know, tube is hollow.
And this, so your complete body is to be thought of as completely clear and hollow, even down to your fingers. They are also hollow. So complete internal part of your body is hollow, empty. This is similar So, that is the preparation. Then the actual practice of is in terms of the divisions of inducing the four joys and the practice of the nine mixings.
Nine mixings? Nine mixings? And then I so I’m just gonna have to give you the Tibetan for now. The first of these eight divisions is called Visualization of the channels. Training in the path of the channels?
Visualization of Visualization of the of the the letters in the channels. Igniting the inner heat. Causing the the the inner heat to blaze. Blazing and dripping. The the the extraordinary blazing and dripping.
So, you have those eight divisions. What is the first division that you have? So the first of the eight. So the nine round breathing meditation. That’s the first.
So the nine round breathing meditation and the exercises. Then secondly, the visualization of the channels. Training in the path of the channels. Visualization of the letters. Igniting the inner heat.
Causing the inner heat to blaze. Blazing and dripping. Blazing and dripping. So that’s eight. Then subsequently, we’ll explain each of the meanings of them.
So the first of these divisions was the the the meditation and the exercises. And these are explained separately. So this is the nine round breathing meditation. Forming your hands as Rinpoche is demonstrating. So it would be nine round breathing meditation.
Meditation. So begin by blocking your left nostril, and imagine that breathing in white light coming in through the right channel, upward and down, and crossing over to to the left channel, which is joined into the left channel, and placing blocking the right nostril. The all the faults of the channel, the obstructions are exhaled in the form of black light going out. The channel is left in a very healthy, smooth, clear state. So when exhaling, blocking the right nostril.
Well That’s that’s one. Then again, left, blocking left. Good. What? That’s six.
Six. Through breath nostrils, the the wind energy comes down and comes to the central channel, the base of the central channel. Breathing in through. Breathing in slowly through both nostrils, bringing the winds down, the two side channels entering into the central channel, rising up, and all the bad winds are being expelled through the opening between the brows. That is the tense and gentle.
Three times. That’s the nine breathing meditation. So the we said that this division has two parts. One was the nine round breathing meditation and then the exercises. So this, again, exercises has six parts.
And one makes use of one’s own deity, whichever it may be, whether it’s Heruka, Yamāntaka, Vajradhāra, whoever, one is going to meditate using that deity. Sitting in a sevenfold posture on a comfortable seat. Straight. Your thumbs in. So inhaling through both nostrils, and it should be done in a very easy, gentle, and long, gentle inhalation, bringing the energies through the two side channels down to the level of the navel.
When it’s abiding at the navel, then swallowing saliva without making a sound. Then drawing up the airs from the lower part of the body, from the secret area, secret channel, at the base of the secret channel, drawing up the airs up to the level of the navel. There, entrapping the wind energy, and holding as long as one is able until one becomes uncomfortable. And then, in an easy, gradual manner, exhaling, not through the mouth, but exhaling through the nostrils, through the nose. So, this is the meditation, the winds, the vase meditation, entrapment of the winds in a vase fashion.
Sitting in the Vajra posture. So taking your your feet with the right with the left, left with the right. As demonstrating. Keeping the back straight. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Rotating the waist three times in circular fashion. Three times clockwise, three times counterclockwise. Not in rotating fashion, but to each then to each each side.
Shifting to each side, the waist. And back forwards forwards and backwards, shifting the weight outwards and inwards. So first first in a forward forward fashion and then and then the back, the waist in the backward not to the back. First forward and then to the back. Then this what?
Okay. Okay. Circular. Clockwise and then counterclockwise? That’s the second.
That’s the second exercise. The third forming of a vajra fist. Placing them on the knees. Drawing them towards yourself over your legs. Having having completed the the movement of the arms, Once.
And to the left. Yeah. But the. Drawing the drawing the fist. I’m going with the.
Putting it down on the knee. Exercising And then to the right. Exercising the shoulders. So getting down on your knees Go. On the ground.
Back straight. Place your hands as Rinpoche is On your knees? Yeah. Back straight. Making your fist and placing your hands on the ground.
Like a dog? Head to the. Head down to the ground? Downward. Right.
Rising slowly. As far back as you can bend. And slowly coming forward again. As far forward as you can Placing your fist on the ground? No.
Yeah. Yeah. Raising your buttocks up. If you if you ate too much and you were throwing up. And then get stand standing up and shaking the feet, the legs.
And the head, shaking the head. Stretching the fingers. Shaking the body once you’ve stretched your fingers shaking the body? Rubbing the hands? Sit down.
So, that’s the meditating the winds winds and the exercises. The nine round breathing meditation and the exercises. Yeah. That day, anything. We’re going to stop the time finished.
Do you have any questions? During the exercises. So there’s no special breathing done during the exercises. The only thing I’m breathing is a is special thing used is the vase breathing, the vase breathing meditation.