| Foreword |
9 |
| Preface by His Holiness, the Drikung Kyabgon |
11 |
| Introduction: The Fivefold Path |
14 |
| Clarifying the Jewel Rosary of the Profound Fivefold Path |
|
| Introduction |
21 |
| The Four Knowledges |
23 |
| The Four Contemplations |
23 |
| The Four Practices |
24 |
| The Five Meditations |
24 |
| Preparatory Practices |
25 |
| Common Preparatory Practices |
27 |
| Refuge |
27 |
| Contemplating the rarity of attaining leisure and fortune |
27 |
| Contemplating the faults of cyclic existence |
28 |
| Contemplating the benefits of liberation |
28 |
| Vajrasattva Meditation |
30 |
| Mandala Meditation |
32 |
| Mandala Establishment |
32 |
| Mandala Offering |
33 |
| Guru Yoga |
34 |
| The Four Empowerments |
36 |
| Special Preparatory Practices |
39 |
| Love |
39 |
| Generating love |
39 |
| The true nature of love |
40 |
| The increase of love |
40 |
| The activities of love |
41 |
| The error of neglecting to cultivate love |
41 |
| The benefits of cultivating love |
41 |
| Compassion |
41 |
| The object of observation of compassion |
41 |
| The increase of compassion |
42 |
| The activities of compassion |
42 |
| The fruit to be attained |
42 |
| Bodhichitta |
42 |
| Aspirational Bodhichitta |
43 |
| Actual Bodhichitta |
44 |
| The object of observation of actual Bodhichittha |
44 |
| Actual Practices |
47 |
| Meditation on Yidam--Deity Yoga |
49 |
| The stage of generation |
50 |
| Visualization |
51 |
| Commentary on the stage of generation |
54 |
| Meditation on the clear form |
54 |
| Mindfulness of the purity of the form |
55 |
| Mindfulness of the purity of the natural signs |
55 |
| Mindfulness of the purity that is emptiness |
55 |
| Holding firmly to the diamond-perfection of oneself as deity |
56 |
| The stage of completion |
56 |
| Meditation on the Teacher--Guru Yoga |
58 |
| The Emanation Body |
60 |
| The three branches of homage |
61 |
| The threefold offering |
62 |
| The sevenfold offering |
62 |
| The Complete Enjoyment Body |
63 |
| The Truth Body |
68 |
| The Nature Body |
70 |
| Meditation on Mahamudra |
72 |
| Settling the view |
73 |
| Settling the true nature of the mind |
73 |
| The mode of abiding of appearances |
74 |
| The mode of abiding of the mind |
74 |
| The four reasonings |
74 |
| The reasoning of the diamond slivers |
75 |
| The reasoning of one and many |
75 |
| The reasoning refuting the four possibilities of production |
75 |
| Four ways of misunderstanding emptiness |
76 |
| Three places of possible error in meditation |
77 |
| The reasoning of dependent-arising |
77 |
| Meditation on the view |
79 |
| The technique of body posture |
79 |
| The technique of time of practice |
79 |
| The technique of stabilizing the mind |
80 |
| Meditation on the mode of abiding of phenomena |
80 |
| The stage of completion with signs |
80 |
| The stage of completion without signs--the seven methods of stabilizing the mind |
81 |
| Sustaining the practice without taking anything to mind |
81 |
| Sustaining the practice while abandoning any conception of distinctions |
82 |
| Sustaining the practice without losings Mindfulness |
83 |
| Sustaining the practice with great effort |
84 |
| Sustaining the practice in regard to the meaning of nonmeditation |
84 |
| Sustaining the practice without the extremes of tightness and looseness |
85 |
| Sustaining the practice with one's mind in a natural, nonartificial state |
85 |
| Identification of the mode of abiding of phenomena |
88 |
| Identification of meditative equipoise as calm-abiding |
88 |
| Identification of self-awareness as Mahamudra |
89 |
| Quintessential instructions |
89 |
| Practicing in accordance with the quintessential instructions |
93 |
| Concluding Practices |
95 |
| Dedication |
97 |
| The dakorma dedication |
98 |
| The suitability of dedicating innate virtue |
98 |
| Buddha's word on dedicating innate virtue |
98 |
| Reasoning on dedicating innate virtue |
99 |
| Quintessential instructions on dedicating innate virtue |
99 |
| The objects to be dedicated |
99 |
| The recipients of the dedication |
99 |
| The purpose of the dedication |
99 |
| Colophon |
102 |
| The Life Story of the Author, Kunga Rinchen |
104 |
| Notes |
111 |
| Index |
126 |
