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A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra
by
Dal<po Tashi N amgyal
Foreword by
KHENCHEN THRANGU RINPOCHE
Translated from the Tibetan by
ERIK PEMA KuNSANG
Edited by
MICHAEL TwEED
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AuTHOR: DAKPO TASHI NAMGYAL
(DVAGS PO BKRA SHIS RNAM RGYAL), (1512-1587).
FoREWORD BY KHENCHEN THRANGU RINPOCHE (B. 1933).
TRANSLATED FROM THE TIBETAN BY ERIK PEMA KuNsANG
(ERIK HEIN ScHMIDT). EDITED BY MICHAEL TwEED.
FIRST ED.
TITLE: CLARIFYING THE NATURAL STATE;
A PRINCIPAL GUIDANCE MANUAL FOR MAHAMUDRA
TIBETAN TITLE: PHYAG RGYA CHEN PO'I KHRID YIG CHEN MO
GNYUG MA'I DE NYID GSAL BA.
I. VAJRAYANNMAHAMUDRA-TRADITION OF PITH
INSTRUCTIONS. 2. BuDDHISM-TIBET. I. TITLE.
Introduction 9
Opening Verses 13
PART ONE
PRELIMINARY STEPS OF GUIDANCE
General Preliminaries 15
Specific Preliminaries 15
PART TWO
THE MAIN PART OF THE MEDITATION
STAGES
Steps of Guidance 17
Guidance Through Shamatha IJ
Shamatha with Attributes 17
Supported Shamatha 17
Unsupported Shamatha 19
Shamatha with Breathing Practice 19
Shamatha without Breathing Practice 21
Shamatha without Attributes 23
Tightening 23
Loosening 24
Guiding by Means of Vipashyana 26
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Establishing the Identity Mind and the Various
Perceptions 27
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Establishing the Identity of Mind- the Basis 27
Establishing the Identity of Thoughts and Perceptions
- the Expression 29
Clearing Up Uncertainties About Basis
and Expression 31
Resolving That Thoughts Are Mind 32
Resolving That Perceptions Are Mind 34
Investigating the Calm and the Moving mind 36
Resolving That All Experience Is Nonarising 37
Steps of Pointing-Out Instruction 40
The Actual Pointing Out of the Innate 40
Pointing Out Innate Mind-Essence 40
Pointing Out Innate Thinking 43
Pointing Out Innate Perception 45
Eradicating Faults and Identifying
the Meditation Practice 47
Describing Mistakes and Faulty Meditation 47
Explaining Flawless Meditation Practice 50
PART THREE
SUBSEQUENT WAYS TO CONTINUE THE
TRAINING
General Reasons for Meditation Training 53
Special Training without Separating Meditation and
Postmeditation 55
Cutting through Hindrances, Sidetracks and Straying 59
Sidetracks 6I
Enhancing by Transcending into N onarising 64
The Time for Transcending 64
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Investigating Thoughts and Perceptions 65
Investigating the Meditation and the Meditating Mind 66
The Actual Transcending into N onarising Openness 67
Mingling Meditation and Postmeditation, Day and Night 69
Developing Strength by Utilizing the Conducts 70
The Time for Utilizing and the Conducts 70
Utilizing Thoughts 72
Utilizing Emotions 73
Utilizing Gods and Demons 73
Utilizing Suffering 74
Utilizing Sickness 74
Utilizing the Process of Dying 75
How Realization Arises and the Enhancement
Practices 76
The Various Ways Realization Arises 77
One-Pointedness and Its Enhancement 78
Simplicity and Its Enhancement 84
One Taste and Its Enhancement 89
Nonmeditation and Its Enhancement 95
PART FOUR
THE WAY TO TRAVERSE THE PATHS AND
BHUMIS THROUGH MEDITATION
TRAINING IOI
Concluding Verses 103
Colophon 104
Translator's Colophon ro5
Endnotes ro6
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