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Fathoming the Mind extends the commentary of Stilling the Mind. This companion volume also stems from an oral commentary Dudjom Lingpa gave to the next section of the Vajra Essence, the vipashyana section, in which he shares the teachings revealed to him in a pure vision of Padmasambhava, elucidating the cultivation of contemplative insight, or vipassana, into the nature of existence as a whole. The revelation appears in the form of a fascinating dialogue occurring within Dudjom Lingpa's own mind. Various aspects of his mind pose questions to his own primordial consciousness, and the pithy and provocative replies elucidate what could today be called depth psychology that taps into the very ground of being. The ensuing dialogue explores every stage of the path to buddhahood in this lifetime, from the very beginning to the unexcelled result of the rainbow body, signifying enlightenment. Everything you need to know to attain buddhahood is complete in this text.
As Wallace continued to reflect on Dudjom Lingpa's writings and their relevance to the modern world, he was inspired to elaborate extensively on his original commentary and to add introductory essays and an afterword, which contextualize the root text and commentary and reveal their contribution to the contemplative revolution triggered by the discoveries of Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein that have brought about an irreversible change in the outlook on reality of those who have fathomed their authenticity and implications. This book brilliantly contextualizes Buddhist teachings on the Great Perfection as a revolutionary challenge, rationally and experientally, to modern beliefs. Fathoming the Mind: Inquiry and Insight in Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence, B. Alan Wallace, Wisdom Publications, Paperback, 296 pp, $18.95
B. Alan Wallace is president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He trained for many years as a monk in Buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland. He has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976 and has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including H. H. the Dalai Lama. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he earned his MA and PhD in religious studies at Stanford University. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and religion.
Alan is also the founder of the Contemplative Research (CCR) near the town of Castellina Marittima in Tuscany, Italy. The CCR is dedicated to researching the role and methods of the ancient contemplative practices of Shamatha and Vipashyana, and their involvement in mental health and wellbeing and to fathoming the nature and origins of human consciousness.
The program builds on the results of the Shamatha Project (http://www.shamatha.org). It is guided by a Scientific Advisory Board that includes the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Elizabeth Blackburn (Director, Salk Institute), neuroscientist and clinical psychologist David Presti (UC Berkeley), theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser (Director of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth College), and philosopher Michel Bitbol (Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Cognitive scientists at the University of Pisa, the University of Trent, and the Sculoa Superiore Sant�Anna in Pisa are committed to conducting research in collaboration with the CCR.
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CONTENTS: Fathoming the Mind: Inquiry and
Insight in Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence |
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Foreword by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche |
ix |
Foreword by Tsokny Rinpoche |
xiii |
Preface |
xv |
Introduction |
1 |
A serviceable mind |
2 |
The
current dark age of materialism |
11 |
1. The nature of mind |
29 |
The
phenomenological nature of consciousness |
30 |
The essential nature of the mind |
38 |
The ultimate nature of the mind |
44 |
The transcendent
nature of consciousness |
48 |
2.
Revealing your own face as the sharp vajra of vipasyana |
55 |
3.
Revealing the ground dharmakaya |
71 |
Determining the
identitylessness of persons as subjects |
71 |
Determining the
identitylessness of phenomena as objects |
85 |
Coarse and subtle
considerations for determing emptiness |
116 |
How all phenomena
arise and appear |
124 |
The point of
realising the emptiness of phenomena |
180 |
Epilogue |
191 |
Afterword:
New frontiers in the collaboration ob buddhism and science |
197 |
Glossary |
209 |
Notes |
231 |
Bibliography |
245 |
Index |
257 |
About the translator |
269 |
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