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"I am sorry to say," said Mr. Chen, "that I do not<br />

know Tibetan very well <strong>and</strong> that many Tibetan gurus<br />

were not proficient in Chinese. My translator for<br />

discussing these matters with my teachers was a<br />

young bhiksu, so for this reason alone they would<br />

not discuss third initiation. He replied, 'If you can<br />

practice this vajra-love yoga without any leak<br />

(discharge) occurring, you can go to any woman.'<br />

So in Tibet, I took some vajra-women, but after<br />

trying hard to practice this yoga with them, after<br />

some time I found I got no results from it."<br />

"I came to the conclusion that first one should study<br />

<strong>and</strong> practice all the other yanas <strong>and</strong> yogas very<br />

deeply. Only after this would one be able to take up<br />

these methods with success."<br />

"Furthermore, only after I had tried to practice<br />

vajra-love did I discover the twelve kinds of<br />

discharge, so that my guru's advice was quite<br />

correct, but unfortunately at first I did not realize<br />

that the word 'discharge' had so many meanings. In<br />

my book, I have collected together from many<br />

sources all the twelve meanings of this term. As far<br />

as I know," said Mr. Chen, "there is no other place<br />

where they are all found together."<br />

The first four kinds of discharge pertain to the body,<br />

where energy leaks in these four ways: As discharge of<br />

semen through the seminal duct, as exhalations through<br />

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