Naro's Six Dharmas

The final Completion Stage teachings of the Naropa lineage are grouped into six practices.
These are called variously "Naro's Six Dharmas" or "the Six Yogas of Naropa". They are:


Tumo - the Yoga of Psychic Heat
Karmamudra - the Yoga of the four Mudras
Jangwa, Gyurwa, Pelwa - the Yoga of Dream Time
Osel, the Yoga of the Clear Light Mind
Gyulu - the Yoga of the Illusory Body
Powa - the Yoga of transference of consciousness

This is only one of the enumerations of the Six Yogas. Some texts group them differently, or emphasize different aspects.
Here I include Bardo Yoga in with Dream Yoga, and "Forceful Projection" in with Powa Yoga.
Under Karmamudra the four Mudra classes are:
Karma Mudra - without qualification.
Samaya Mudra - with Tantric Vows and Empowerment.
Jnana Mudra - Visualized.
Maha Mudra - taking the whole universe as the Mudra.

The Sakya tradition, which also derives from Naropa and his sister Niguma thru the Mahasiddha Virupa,
calls them "The Subsidiary practices"

The practice of the Six Yogas begins with an Empowerment to practice Tumo.
As far as I know, since the death of Lama Yeshe of the FPMT I am currently the only Vajrayana teacher giving Tumo training in the Gelug Tradition in the United States. I would be happy to be able to refer students to other fully qualified Tumo teachers if I knew of any others in the US.
Tumo requires personal supervision to practice and perfect. I cannot realistically supervise students outside the San Antonio/Austin/Dallas geographic corridor.

Jonathan Greenlee

kalachakra@bigfoot.com
Ca Dario
Venice
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