Kukkuripa's Six Lujong
Note
This is a very short text written by Drukpa Pema Karpo [16th century]. The title of the text is 'Instruction of Three Yogas'. These six physical yoga practices [trulkhor] are called 'Six Lujong of Kukkuripa'.
This is a translation. The words in brackets are mine.
I have also included a short story of Siddha Kukkuripa.
Lujong means training of the body.
Trulkhor means physical yoga practices that involve body posture, controlling the nadi, vayu and bindu of the body.
Siddha Kukkuripa's Six Lujong or Six Trulkhor
དབུ་མའི་སྒོ་དབྱེ་ཟླ་བ་སྟེང་དུ་བཅིང༌། །ཉི་མ་འོག་མནན་རྩ་བྲན་དྷཱུ་ཏཱིར་གཞུག །སྒྲ་གཅན་ཨར་གཏད་རྩིགས་མ་གཞི་ལས་བསྐྲད། །དྲུག་འདི་ཀུ་ཀུ་རི་པའི་ལུས་སྦྱོང་ཡིན།
I. Opening the door of central channel
དབུ་མའི་སྒོ་དབྱེ་བ་
Plant your knees and toes on the ground and place your buttocks on your heels.
Straighten your body. Cross your arms [over your chest] and bind your armpits with the palms of your hands.
Now draw in the air [inhale] and hold it as much as you can. When you are on the verge of not being able to hold it, twist the right and left [sides of your body] upward one after the other. Inhale again and press down [the air]. Twist [your body] again and [finally] focus your eyes upwards and expel the air.
II. Binding the Moon above [at the crown]
ཟླ་བ་སྟེང་དུ་བཅིང་པ་
In the same posture as others [above], straighten your arms and place your hands on the knees.
Press the air forward. When you can no longer hold the air, draw the air upwards from the rear. Twist the right and left [side of your body] and finally do as before [gazing upward and letting the air out].
III. Pressing down the Sun
ཉི་མ་ཐུར་དུ་གནོན་པ་
Sit in a vajra cross-legged posture [full lotus].
Cross your arms [over chest] and place hands over your shoulder.
Straighten your body. Press the air down until you can no longer.
Push the shoulder down with your hand and push the shoulder up against your hands. And then twist the right and left [side of] crossed legs.
IV. Guiding [the vital air and clear essence of] secondary channels into the Avadhuti
རྩ་བྲན་དྷཱུ་ཏཱིར་གཞུག་པ་
In the same [full lotus] posture above, straighten your arms and place your hands on your knees.
First, turn/roll your head to the right and left seven times. Then rotate your waist seven times to the left and to the right.
At the end, shake your body like a sheep.
V. Subduing the Rahu
སྒྲ་གཅན་ཨར་ལ་གཏད་པ་1
Bind the [upper doors of the body, eyes, nose, ears and mouth with your fingers] with the Lion Liberation Mudra [eyes with the index fingers, ears with the thumbs, nose with the middle fingers and lips with the ring and little fingers].
Block the air until you can no longer. Turn your body around.
At the end, move your body by circling your hands above your head. Stretch your legs and shake them.
VI. Expelling the impurities [bouncing] from the ground
རྩིགས་མ་གཞི་ལས་བསྐྲད་པ་2
Sit in a squatting position [legs crossed at the ankles, knees upright and buttocks on the seat].
Stretch your arms out like a stick. Then hop up and drop your buttocks on the seat and your hands on your knees. And then shake [your body].
The short story of Mahasiddha Kukkuripa from Tibetan Tengyur text
Once when the yogi Kukuripa was passing through the town, he saw a hungry female puppy. There arose a great loving-kindness towards that puppy. He took her with him to the cave. He practised Sadhana for 12 years while begging alms. He attained the worldly siddhis and the gods invited him to heaven. He went to heaven, but the dog was left alone in the solitary cave. Since there was no one to feed the dog, the dog was left to survive on the sustenance she can procure by digging the earth. In heaven, while the gods were venerating him with a grand offering, he suddenly remembered the dog in the cave. When he was about to leave, the gods spoke, ‘you have attained such a great feat of siddhis, but it is unfortunate that you still haven’t cut off the (conceptual) thought of a dog’. Without listening to them, he left heaven. When he reached his cave and caressed the dog, the dog transformed into a Dakini. Dakini then said, ‘Well done! Well done! Without falling into the obstacle of temptation, you have come here to fetch your siddhi’.
Meaning of ཨར་ལ་གཏད་པ: གཅུན་པའམ་གནད་ལ་ཕབས་པ། given in འབྲུག་པའི་ཆོས་མཛོད་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་འཕེལ་ནོར་བུའི་བང་མཛོད།
རྩིགས་མ་ and སྙིགས་མ are synonymous. Tibetan yogic drops are also performed to expel the impurities downwards through the anus. So I have translated the name of this trulkhor as meaning to expel impurities downwards by dropping on the buttocks.
So many things about this that I would like to understand. All these are vague to me:
(1) Cross your arms over your chest and bind your armpits with the palms of your hands.
(2) Twist the right and left sides of your body upward one after the other.
(3) Press the air forward.
(4) raw the air upwards from the rear.
(5) Turn your body around.
(6) Move your body by circling your hands above your head.