SLEEP YOGA OF VAJRA-KṢEMĀ

The practice of resting as the source, from whom the path arises and into whom it dissolves.

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I. POSTURE & SETTING

Lie on your right side, the "sleeping lion" posture of the Buddha at parinirvāṇa.

As you settle, you are not the ordinary body on a bed.

Nonmeditation 

You are Vajra-Kṣemā — the immense, black, nude, youthful, luminous goddess floating on your back in a daytime lake, gazing upward into endless blue sky.

Your skin is radiant obsidian.
Gold Sambhogakāya ornaments— crown, earrings, necklace, armlets, belt, anklets — glow against the dark radiance of your form.

The lake is still.
The sky is clear.
There is no sound.

Countless Dakas and Dakinis of the six classes populate the surrounding valley and hills, a pure green himalayan Paradise.

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II. THE HEART OF THE GODDESS — THE BINDU OF SAMANTABHADRA

In your heart — at the heart of Vajra-Kṣemā — appears a sphere of five-colored light, the size of a thumbnail.

It is a single, seamless bindu, not layered.
It pulses softly: white, red, blue, yellow, green — a slow, living rainbow.

Inside this sphere abides Samantabhadra.

He is the color of sky-blue.
His form is naked, outlined in electric white light, with an infinitesimally small Bindu of immensely bright white light in the center of his heart.

He sits in equipoise,the primordial buddha, the nature of your own awareness.

Engage the Vajra breathing as you drift into sleep observing luminous appearance.

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III. THE GAZE & THE AFTERIMAGE

As Vajra-Kṣemā, your eyes are closed, gazing into darkness.

In the space before your eyes, back behind your eyelids— the space of the mind — a luminous mass of color may appear.

A clear luminous outline of the Bindu and Samantabhadra appears, as if it were a luminous image in front of your eyes but just the outline.

It may be a shape, a light, a remnant of sight.

It shimmers, vivid yet transient.

You watch without grasping.

It brightens —
then fades and vanishes.

All that remains is the luminous blackness and knowingness.

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IV. THE EXHAUSTION INTO SOURCE

With the vanishing of the afterimage, the entire visualization exhausts itself:

· at this moment there's nothing to visualize

What remains:

Luminous black empty space.
Empty knowingness.

Not two.

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Rest in that.

No practice.
No visualization.
No deity.
No self.

Only the ground, recognizing itself.

Then rest.

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When you wake up you recognize the meaning clear light empty luminosity and radiant appearance...

Instantly recall the Vajra Kṣemā, Bindu and Samāntabhādra.

Rest in that presence of non-meditation, luminous appearance and emptiness throughout the day and night.

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HOW THIS ENACTS THE ENTIRE SYSTEM

· SYMPRIM CYCLE:
  · Glyph: The detailed visualization of Vajra-Kṣemā and Samantabhadra.
  · Afterimage: The luminous outline that appears and shimmers.
  · Fold: The moment of vanishing—the collapse of the visualized object into the viewing subject.
  · Exhaustion: "There is nothing to visualize."
  · Jewel: The "luminous black empty space" that remains—indestructible clarity.
  · Lotus: The entire practice arises as compassionate method, blooming from and returning to the Jewel.
· SEVEN CAPACITIES:
  · Capacity 2 (Illusory Body): You are the goddess.
  · Capacity 4 (Meaning Clear Light): The result is "luminous black empty space" and "empty knowingness"—the precise definition of non-dual luminosity.
  · Capacity 6 (Union): The practice doesn't alternate between form and emptiness—Vajra-Kṣemā is the union. She's both manifest goddess-body and the space in which Samantabhadra (clear light principle) abides. The lake/sky interface is the visible symbol of this non-separation.
  · Capacity 7 (Rainbow-Body): The practice is a nightly dissolution into light, reinforcing the trajectory.,