Mi'sen

Currently accepting new students for personal meditation instruction. Favorite theme at the moment is reverse-engineering the Six Yogas of Naropa for non-Tibetans. See my website for contact info and details.

You’re reverse engineering the six yogas? That sounds fascinating! I didn’t know you had studied tantra stuff, a man of many talents.

The six yogas are amazing, and more accessible than generally thought. Key is to put yourself in the shoes of those ancient yogis, ask yourself what they were trying to accomplish, & see through the gimmicks, obscurantist language, & proprietary symbolism to the pith instruction.

Is this something you’ve been working on for a while?

Started practicing tummo about 15 years ago. My intro to the six realms as mind map was in 1990. My teacher Bill Hamilton was obsessed with it, and spoke of it often. He learned it from Chogyam Trungpa in Boulder. I have no formal Tibetan training, though, just Burmese Theravada.

Only in the last few days, though, did I finally crack the six yogas. I have a student, gifted in jhana, who asked me to teach him tummo three months ago. He picked it right up. Then he asked me if I'd take a look at the six yogas, reverse-engineer them, and teach them to him.

I was intrigued and dove head first into the project. It was easy to see that sleep yoga was the clear light while asleep, which I also already practiced, but that left bardo yoga and consciousness projection. Shit, what a mess. Probably some dumb superstitious nonsense, right?