| |
Contents: Clarifying The Natural State: A Principal
Guidance Manual for Mahamudra |
|
|
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 |
17 |
|
|
Shamatha with Atributes |
17 |
|
Supported Shamatha |
17 |
|
Unsupported Shamatha |
19 |
|
Shamatha with Breathing Practice |
19 |
|
Shamatha without Breathing Practice |
21 |
|
Shamatha with Attributes |
23 |
|
Tightening |
23 |
|
Loosening |
24 |
|
Guiding by Means of Vipashyna |
26 |
|
Establishing the Identity of Mind and the Various
Perceptions |
27 |
|
|
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 witjout Separating Meditation
and Postmeditation |
55 |
|
Cutting through Hindrances, Sidetracks and Straying |
59 |
|
Sidetracks |
61 |
|
Enhancing by Transcending into Nonarising |
64 |
|
The Time for Transcending |
64 |
|
Investigating Thoughts and Perceptions |
65 |
|
Investigating the Meditation and the Meditating
Mind |
66 |
|
The Actual Transcending into Nonarising 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 |
101 |
| |
Concluding Verses |
103 |
| |
Colophon |
104 |
| |
Translator's Colophon |
105 |
| |
Endnotes |
106 |
