Excerpt moodboard: FROM TANTRA OF THE TACHIKAWA RYU : SECRET SEX TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA (JOHN STEVENS 2010)"
"...The Buddha couple should bathe together in a curative hot spring without physical contact. The couple must be in perfect accord in body, mind, and speech. The couple must be in bright, positive mood, free of gloom, despair, or unhappiness. The man is venerated as Fudo myo-O (Acala); the woman is venerated and embodies Aizen myo-O/愛染明王 (Rāgarāja). The holy couple faces each other and they make the three prostrations (sanrai).
Reciting: Male: "I aspire to enter the Womb realm."
Female: "I aspire to receive the Diamond (vajra) realm."
The room must be spotless and absolutely clean, well secluded, with a small altar. The secret buddha image is kept veiled, not to be uncovered until after the rites are performed. Kuden (secret oral teaching), the instructions regarding The Buddha image are only to transmitted orally and never written down. Fresh flowers are placed on the altar, together with appropriate seasonal offerings from the mountains and the sea. Kindle fragrant incense. Light the room with five candles. (The candles are the five colors of the elements and are placed in the appropriate direction: fire-red, south; water-black, north; wood-green/blue, east; earth-yellow, south; void-white, west) The Buddha image is one's own body. Therefore, the man and woman shed their robes in the corner (southwest) and face each other completely naked and adorned. The Rites are to begin at midnight. The man crosses his legs in the full lotus position and the woman sits on the top of the man and lets his jeweled jade stem enter her mysterious gate. (This posture reacts the position of many esoteric deities and their consorts, in particular that of Shiva and Shakti).
During the sexual congress of the two roots of existence (A/Un), the breath should be harmonized in an A (inhale) and Un (exhale) rhythm. The man should keep his vajra pressed against the woman's womb as they meditate together, blending the male/female components of the five elements (godai): earth, water, fire, wood, and air/void. If done properly, this blending of the elements will form a five-colored rainbow: yellow, blue, red, green, and white. The mother/father buddha posture is best, but other postures and mantra are allowed. (goku-I kuden ari: secret oral instructions and essential teachings are given but unknown at this time) However, at the break of dawn when the rooster crows, The Buddha couple should be in the mother/father posture. At that time, The Buddha couple should come to a mutual instant of universal bliss; that is the moment of universal truth, a state of pure ecstasy, an unobstructed integration of emptiness and form. This is the realm of Dianichi Nyorai (Vairocana), the Cosmic Buddha where myriad elements exist in perfect equilibrium."
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