The Six Yogas of Naropa.
The Six Yogas of Naropa is a system of practices first unified by Tilopa, but extended under the name of his disciple Naropa.
In
the heyday of Tantric Buddhism in India, there were hundreds of
Buddhist tantra systems, most of which belonged to the upper class of
anuttara yoga tantra. Apparently initially, each tantra was a complete method for achieving
awakening, but later the Mahasiddha yogis began to combine methods from
different tantras to achieve the greatest effectiveness, which led to
the emergence of such systems as the Six Yogas of Naropa, the Six Yogas
of Sukhasiddhi and others.
The basis, path and purpose of these yogas is Mahamudra. These six practices are designed so that the practitioner learns
to keep the clarity of consciousness always, in whatever state the body
and mind are, in particular:
- wakefulness,
- dream with dreams,
- deep dream,
- meditation,
- dying and
- the period between the death of the body and the conception of the next.