Rejuvenation

Rasayana (Skt.; Tib. chülen, Wyl. bcud len), or ‘extracting the essence’, involves special Vajrayana methods for lengthening life, since for practitioners, having a long life is important to have the time to accomplish the practices and reach enlightenment. Rasayana consists of methods for extracting the essence from samsara (extracting the essence from the five elements, plants, minerals and so on), and extracting the essence from nirvana, involving practices based on the wind-mind association.