In this remarkable Buddhist book, you will encounter rare teachings on
how to turn each phase of life into a chance to experience an uncontrived and natural liberation. In life and in death, in meditation and in sleep, every transitional stage of consciousness, or bardo, provides an opportunity to overcome limitations, frustrations, and fears. Through the practical instructions in this book, you will learn how to enter into a profound and spontaneous state of freedom in all your activities.
This book contains a unique text written by the Indian meditation master Padmasambhava and dictated to his Tibetan consort Yeshe Tsogyal. It is accompanied by a lucid commentary by the contemporary Tibetan Buddhist teacher Gyatrul Rinpoche.
Natural Liberation, Padmasambhava, Gyatrul Rinpoche, Wisdom Publications, $18.95
PART ONE Introduction and Preliminaries
1. Preliminary Practices for Subduing Your Own Mind-Stream
Pondering the Suffering of Cyclic Existence
Pondering the Difficulty of Obtaining a Human Life of Leisure and Endowment
Meditating on Death and Impermanence
2. The Natural Liberation of the Mind-itself: The Four-Session Yoga of Spiritual Activity of the Secret Mantra Vajrayana
Going for Outer, Inner, and Secret Refuge
Generating the Mahayana Spirit of Awakening
Cultivating the Four Immeasurables
Reciting the One Hundred Syllables to Purify Sins and Obscurations
Offering the Mandala
Prayer to the Lineage
The Contemplation of Receiving the Four Empowerments
Colophon
PART TWO The Profound Dharma of the Natural Liberation through Contemplating the Peaceful and Wrathful: Stage of Completion Instructions on the Six Bardos
3. The Natural Liberation of the Foundation: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Living
Quiescence
Settling the Body, Speech, and Mind in their Natural States
The Actual Practice of Quiescence
Insight
Revealing the Nature of Awareness
Engaging in the Search for the Mind
Identifying Awareness
4. The Natural Liberation of Confusion: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Dreaming
Instructions on the Illusory Body
The Impure Illusory Body
The Pure Illusory Body
Nighttime Instructions on Dreaming and the Natural Liberation of Confusion
Apprehending the Dream State
Training in Dream Emanation and Transformation
Dispelling Obstacles of Dreaming
Stabilizing the Transitional Process of Dreaming and Instructions on Transforming the Dream State into the Clear Light: Training in the Natural Liberation of Confusion
5. The Natural Liberation of Awareness: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Meditative Stabilization
Meditative Equipoise of the Threefold Space
The Self-Liberation of Everything that Appears Following Meditation
6. The Natural Liberation of Mindfulness of Transference: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Dying
Training
Application
The Dharmakaya Transference
The Sambhogakaya Transference
The Nirmanakaya Transference
Forceful Transference
Ordinary Transference
7. The Natural Liberation of Seeing: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Reality-itself
Striking the Critical Points of the Body, Speech, and Mind
The Critical Points of the Body
The Critical Points of the Speech
The Critical Points of the Mind
The Alighting of Direct Perception upon Oneself in Dependence upon the Three Critical Points
The Critical Points of the Apertures
The Critical Points of the Object
The Critical Points of the Vital Energies
The Ways in which the Four Visions Arise Due to Such Practice
The Direct Vision of Reality-itself
The Vision of Progressing Experiential Visions
The Vision of Consummate Awareness
The Vision of Extinction into Reality-itself
Concluding Advice
8. The Natural Liberation of Becoming: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Becoming
Closing the Entrance of the Womb as a Divine Embodiment
Blocking the Person Who is Entering
Blocking the Entrance of the Womb that is to be Entered
Closing the Entrance of the Womb by Imagining Your Spiritual Mentor with Consort
Closing the Entrance of the Womb with the Practice of the Four Blisses
How Those on the Path of Liberation Close the Entrance of the Womb with the Antidote of Renunciation
Closing the Entrance of the Womb with the Clear Light
Closing the Entrance of the Womb with the Illusory Body
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PART THREE Supplemental Prayers
9. Three Prayers Concerning the Transitional Processes
Prayer of Supplication
The Natural Liberation of All Attainments: A Prayer Concerning the Transitional Processes
The Prayer for Liberation through the Narrow Passage of the Transitional Process
The Prayer for Protection from Fear in the Transitional Process
Colophon
Prayer of Calling for Help to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
10. The Natural Liberation of the Vast Expanse of the Three Embodiments: A Prayer of the Natural Liberation through Contemplating the Peaceful and Wrathful
Colophon
11. The Natural Liberation of the Three Poisons without Rejecting Them: A Guru Yoga Prayer to the Three Embodiments
Colophon
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
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