Ep19: Karmamudra, Chu Len, & Tummo - Glenn Mullin

In this episode I am once again joined by Lama Glenn Mullin - Tibetologist, translator, and Tantric Buddhist meditation teacher, who studied for many years in Dharmsala with the Dalai Lama’s own gurus.
In our last conversation, way back in Episode 9, we talked all about this fascinating period of Glenn’s life. We ended that podcast just beginning to touch on the inner yogas of Tantric Buddhism.
In this episode we dive deeper into the completion stage practices as we discuss tummo (tsa lung tigle), the balancing of the male and female energies, clear light yoga, and we enter the realms of karmamudra, or ‘Tantric sex’, as it is presented in the Six Yogas of Naropa.
Downloadable audio version of this podcast: / ep19-glenn-mullin-guru...
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Topics include:
- Producing heat with tummo practices
- Tests of tummo practice in old Tibet
- Demonstrations of energy control
- The three qualities of inner bliss
- The real purpose of tummo practice
- Samayamudra, karmamudra, mahamudra, and dharmamudra
- Esoteric nutrition practices of chu len
- Magic pill, stone, and starlight - the 3 types of chu len practice
- Solo vs group retreat in Tibetan Buddhism
- Glenn’s training in chu len
- 21 Day Flower Essence Fast
- Magic pill recipe of the 2nd Dalai Lama
- The effect of past life karma on practice
- Are retreats necessary?
- The teacher-student relationship in Tantra
- The role of Guru Yoga in the 6 Yogas
- Glenn’s spiritual friendship with Ling Rinpoche
- Balancing the male and female energies in the body
- Glenn’s Korean Zen student
- The eternal radiance of the soul
- Natural encounters with the mother clear light mind
- The death process
- Death yoga and assisting the dying
- Tummo as a death simulation process
- The 4 mudras
- Karmamudra controversies
- Problematic attitudes towards sex in the West
- Comments on Dzogchen and Mahamudra
- Consequences of balancing the male and female energies
- Tantra and the office supplies salesman
- Expressing Buddha nature in daily life
- The Yoga of the Playful Deity
- Dangers in tummo practice
- Tantric love-making in the Tibetan tradition
- Secrecy in tantric practice
- How widespread is genuine karmamudra today?
- The meaning of monastic vows of celibacy
- The forbidden nature of eroticism
- Glenn’s training in karmamudra
- The superiority of the female body in tantra
- Is monogamy preferable?
- Male dominated cultural trends
- Semen retention techniques in the 6 Yogas of Naropa
- Do both partners need to be trained?
- 3 different types of karmamudra partner
- Problems with bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West
- ‘One lama, one student’
- Manifesting from the natural radiance of your stream of being
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To watch my other interviews with Glenn:
• Lama Glenn Mullin Series
To find our more about Glenn, visit:
www.glennmullin...
www.runawayjou...
/ maitripa.glenn
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www.guruviking.com
Music 'Deva Dasi' by Steve James

[@MrGoom11]

This was a fantastic interview. If possible, please interview Glenn Mullin again!

[@GuruViking]

Thank you! And I plan to :-)

[@jonathannadeau6218]

This guy’s explanations are so clear that I have no doubts I would attain enlightenment in this life if I were to have the good fortune to be one of his students.

[@TheOneandPrime]

He is an incredible teacher. Very blessed to have learned from him..

[@100Proof_DjSilk_HMP_Radio]

This was such and incredible interview!! Thank you both for making it possible!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 I have benefited tremendously from this interview and my practice has positively impacted going forward.

[@user-fg3fv9hl3b]

THANK YOU STEVE!! Just got into tantra a few months ago and I'm finding this series amazing and helpful in every way. Thank you Glenn!!

[@jonathannadeau6218]

Your interview with Glenn was my favourite amongst all your interviews. I’m very happy you got him again.

[@GuruViking]

Me too!

[@nondescripthuman]

I wish this channel to grow

[@dhantamang867]

Supper Supper Super Guru.

[@rainmanfromthenorth]

Fantastic interview. Precise questions and great answers. Lama la, tuk che che🙏

[@kalyanamitra2048]

Extraordinary interview - thank you 😊

[@alexandrarencoret5599]

This is a fascinating subject! thank you very much!!

[@GuruViking]

You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@panayiotapanayiotis8669]

That was beautiful, thank you both.

[@alexandrarencoret5599]

Yes please do a pod 3!!

[@claudecipullo281]

Great Glenn

[@kevinmai2947]

35:08 - Maleness = ability to effectively intervene in worldly activities. (Responsive side) (Strong Male side) Femaleness = Ability to experience the beauty, magic, and wonder. (Wisdom, experience side) (Sensitive Female side) 38:59 - The karmic winds (energy) travels with us from lifetime to lifetime and always in state of fluctuation. Deepest level of consciousness is the eternal radiance of the soul. (not individual soul, but God consciousness, godhead, background consciousness, radiance, movie screen of the drama of our lives and the 6 bardos. 49:44 - Sneezing "achoo" there is a sort of bliss at the end, a sort of stretching into infinity. 54:11 - Sexual occasion is when the natural radiance of the soul shines through without any effort. More accessible than tip of a sneeze or when going to sleep. Cuz you can't control sneezing, and you sleep when you're sleepy. Using sex is kama mudra. Maha Mudra is easiest - Just noticing the natural flow of the body and how it has its own playful quality, etc. Sutrayana as basis, then mahamudra/dzogchen. 58:21 - Real life example of how it transformed some worker guy. 1:00:48 - In a way every bodliy form is beautiful. Femaleness of appreciating the people in the room changed the situation. (Female side of noticing beauty and appreciating the sensual fullness of each moment) 1:02:15 - Mahayana/Sutrayana = love and compassion. Tantra = Adds humor to it. Expression of buddha nature. 1:06:00 - Things always have a chance of going wrong. (Car accidents, choking on peanuts, dying by tripping on your pet) 1:12:30 - Lay people make love. So if you're gonna make love. Might as well do it in a spiritual way. Not in a way that will make you loose energy. Not in a way that it's just a pleasure past time like any other pleasure past time. 1:13:44 - In Buddhism celibacy is not simply “not having sex”. It's not having sex on the basis of delusion and as a casual escapist tactic from the humdrum quality of everyday life. Hinayama Vow superceded by Boddhisattva vow. All hinayama, mahayama, boddhisattva vows superseded by Tantra precepts. 1:15:07 - kama mudra done from the primordial radiance of clear light mind. Comes out as sambhogakaya buddha. Emerges from that in the form of a mandala deity and one's body is now the body of a God. Not done from the body of a regular person. 1:16:00 - There will always be literalist interpretation of vows. 1:18:30 - reiterating 1:13:44 1:41:12 - Tantra as flow of life and bringing enlightened being in every action.

[@AmritaMandala]

It was good. Perhaps not as tight as previous episodes but still very good. Looking for to the upcoming episodes.

[@rogerunderhill4267]

wow. wonderful. right up my street 🙂🙏🧘

[@polinabb8256]

Awesome, thank you!

[@LK-kw9ng]

Awesome!!!

[@gracepoint-vo1hy]

❤❤❤

[@paldenngodup8238]

🕉🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉

[@krishuang6309]

48:44 Lama-la 🙏 It's indeed physically doable. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_component_analysis

[@saraswati999]

Buddha never sad there is no soul not sure when Buddhist chuckle at the very word