Ra Tummo!

Friday 10:00 p.m.
Just in case someone ever comes here who is interested in the great vajrayana, I should say something about tummo, or raising inner heat.

After lunch today, I felt like having a wee snooze, but sat down in the lobby to meditate again. Closed my eyes. You're right into ra bliss straight away. The sheath thing seems to open, or be there. There is a bit of light and some of ra bliss. This is very nice. After a wee bit, ra heat, a kind of over-all warmth fills the sheath. This is even nicer.

This is the kind of stuff that keeps you warm in the cold. It's warmth, but not really like any warmth I've ever experienced outside meditation. If I'd sat down with my hands being cold, they wouldn't have been cold anymore. There was nothing uncomfortable about this warmth. I know you can get all kinds of heat, but there was nothing at all unpleasant about this. (I've had bits of heat just under the skin before and that feels a wee bit like sunburn.)

I've had this kind of warmth before, but not quite so much or so pleasant. I hadn't done any vase breathing.

When I had my first inner heat experience about four years ago ... just four months after I'd taken refuge ... well, I expected to be drying off wet sheets by this time, but the whole heat thing has come on very, very slowly. I think there may be two factors in this. One: my discipline is far from exemplary. Two: I haven't done enough meditations on the navel symbol. It may be that I don't do enough vase breathing. Of course, I've no one around here to talk about this stuff and I don't like to bother Lama Yeshe unless I encounter some problems. Hmmm.

I did a great shadow boxing session tonight. Still a fat basturn, but getting fitter.

There's no one in just now, so I'll go and sit in the lobby again and await developments!

11:55 p.m.
What can I say about ra bliss, Jack? Oh, so wonderful! Warmth came on like it did today, but everything was a bit more eccentuated. I've told you before about ra bliss that whooshes up your body sometimes when you lean over for a bit then straighten up. Fantabuloso! I'm a bit tired now, so my concentration isn't what it should be, but the Domestic Bliss isn't in yet, so I'll sit up a bit longer. Sober and straight on a Friday night, and off my face on air!! What a fortunate creature I am, I am! What a fortunate creature I am!

Unfortunately, I'll have to break off from this sequence of two wonderful days of meditations to go to Bellshill tomorrow. It would be fantastic if this was the start of a long, long retreat. God preserve us from the flatheids! It's night night from RaBadBoyBlissheid!