You ask why Guru Rinpoche, in the form of the Yogi Nyima Ozer, is in a bar drinking alcohol?
You ask why Guru Rinpoche, in the form of the Yogi Nyima Ozer, is in a bar drinking alcohol? Because you and all beings are just in this place - this drunken tavern. The tantric yogi remains in this realm and drinks the intoxicating nectar of experience transforming it into amrita – the nectar of deathlessness.
The bar where this yogi is drinking is the nature of our intoxication and delusion within samsara. The sun and moon are the internal and external nature of time, alternation and desire. When a yogi becomes master of her or himself then they are master of the world of experience.
Nyima Ozer is the form of Guru Rinpoche who transcended time through his yogic mastery of sexuality and his display of third concduct – the conduct in accord with tantra. Externally there is the ever changing nature of the four seasons – internally there is the ever changing nature of moods, flavors of feeling related to the play of bindu or the red and white drops of the subtle body. These drops are the nature of gender and desire.
In the story of Nyima Ozer, when he stabs his phurba into the barroom table, he stops the sun and the moon in their cycling across the sky. This is the yogi’s challenge – to be able to stop and start the cycling of alternations. Nyima Ozer stops the sun and the moon in their tracks – and he also allows them to begin their journey and play again once mastery is acknowledged by the king. - t.k., from talks on the manifestations of Guru Rinpoche
