Annutara yoga Tantra
This is yogini Tantra.
This is known as the "left-hand Tantra."
This is the profound path of the "transgressive discipline."
This is the Tantra that gives Tantra a bad name.
Christmas Humphreys has famously rolled over in his grave.
A modern Sanskritized form (see Sanskrit), unattested in original Indian texts, of the term commonly used to indicate the highest or ‘supreme’ form of the four classes of tantras and their associated practices according to the New School (gsar-ma) of tantric Buddhism in Tibet.
Historically, the tantras deemed to be anuttara-yoga in orientation are considered to be the latest to have been developed and compiled in India.
Possibly between the early 8th and the 11th century ce, although traditionally they were considered to have been promulgated during the lifetime of Śākyamuni and then concealed until they later re-emerged in the human world.
Three categories of anuttara-yoga-tantras are distinguished by Tibetan exegetes: Father Tantras, Mother Tantras, and Non-dual Tantras.
Father Tantras, as typified by the Guhyasamāja Tantra, emphasize the so-called generation phase (utpatti-krama) of meditative transformation; the Mother Tantras, typified by the Hevajra Tantra, the completion phase (saṃpanna-krama);
the Non-dual Tantras, typified by the Kālacakra Tantra, which combines both the generation and the completion phases.
Practices associated with many tantras of this class involve sexual yoga.
Fierce rites of destruction, and other antinomian forms of behaviour and hence are treated with great secrecy, to be taught only to those who have received the appropriate initiations (abhiṣeka).
The Vajrayogini Tantra which so many of Trungpa Rinpoches students and all of Kagyu beginner tantrikas take now with a grain of salt is based on the transgressive discipline of the profound path of the Annutara yoga Tantra.
Just the fact that authentic practitioners developed this path is astonishing.
And the fact that it has become co-opted by monasticism and remains so potent is remarkable. It is our authentic lineage.
Very simply.
In ancient Bramhanical India the right hand was considered pure and the left hand was considered impure for the simple fact that one ate food with the right hand and wiped your ass with your left.
This was before toilet paper.
All vajrayogini practitioners will know that we bless things with our left hand-- the poo poo hand.
Why would you do such a thing?
For a traditional Indian Brahmin this is so taboo!
What is taboo?
How can breaking that become such a powerful path of realization? Look at your own mind.
Then watch a video of Trungpa Rinpoche giving a talk and lifting a glass of liquor to his lips.
Sometimes there is a mischevious smile.
That is called transmission in our lineage-- and that is why we bless things with the poo poo hand.
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