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Editor's Introduction
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vii
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PART ONE: Milarepa and the Mahamudra Tradition |
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1. The Mahamudra Tradition
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3
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2. The Student-Teacher Relationship |
13 |
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3. The Importance of Devotion |
20
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4. One-Upmanship
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26 |
5. Disillusionment, Renunciation, and the Search for a Teacher
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30 |
6. Milarepa's Genuineness and Honesty
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35 |
7. Encountering Marpa
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38 |
8. Marpa's Construction Projects
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45 |
9. Destroying Materialism
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49
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10. Straightforward Discipline
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57
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11. Exposing Ego's Dirty Trick |
62
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12. Spiritual Romanticism
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69 |
13. Loneliness, Desertion, and the Delight in Practice
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74
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14. Breakthrough
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82 |
15. Fear, Mockery, and the Dawning of Mahamudra
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89
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16. Four Yogas of Mahamudra: One-Pointedness and Simplicity
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96 |
17. Four Yogas of Mahamudra: One Taste and Nonmeditation |
103 |
18. Milarepa's Love and Compassion |
108 |
19. Milarepa's Buddha Activity |
113 |
PART TWO: Songs and Commentaries |
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20. Conversations in Verse |
119 |
21. Milarepa's Challenge from a Wise Demoness
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121 |
22. The Song of Realization
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133 |
23. A Woman's Role in the Dharma
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149
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24. The Challenge from the Logicians
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166
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25. The Realization of Megom Repa
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184 |
26. Sale O and Her Understanding
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196 |
27. The Story of the Yak Horn |
206 |
28. Rechungpa's Repentence
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222 |
29. The Holy Gampopa
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233 |
30. The Conversion of the Scholar Loton
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248 |
31. The Beer Drinking Song
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261 |
32. Farewell to Holy Gampopa
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268 |
| Acknowledgments |
274 |
| Sources |
276 |
| Index |
279 |
