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The directors and staff of Tsadra Foundation and Shambhala
Publications, the lamas overseeing the creation of this book, and the
translator ask for your cooperation in ensuring that the express wish
and vajra words of Chatral Sangy Dorj Rinpoch, who authorized our
work, be respected. The readership of this book is restricted to those
who have completed the minimum five hundred thousand accumulations of
the uncommon preliminary practices of Tibetan Buddhism.
Dakini Sukha Vajra, widely known as Sera Khandro, wrote this
commentary of an account by the great Dudjom Lingpa of visions he had
of enlightened beings and the teachings he received from them regarding
our perception of reality.
This book contains four Tibetan texts in translation. First, The Excellent Path to Liberation
explains how to give our attention to the teachings, and how to ground
our spiritual practice in harmonious relationships with others and the
world at large. Second, Dudjom Lingpas account of his visionary
journey, Enlightenment without Meditation, teaches by example
that as practitioners we should ask ourselves sincere questions
concerning our perception of reality, and that we should not be content
with superficial answers.
In the third book, Sera Khandros
commentary, she presents Dudjom Lingpas work within two frameworks. She
first clarifies the view on which the spiritual path is founded, the
path of meditation; the ensuing conduct that reflects and enriches
meditative experience; and the paths resultawakening and
enlightenment. Next she illuminates the subtleties of the great
perfection view, the four tantric bonds: nonexistence, a single nature,
pervasive insubstantial evenness, and spontaneous presence.
This
volume also includes a significant fourth text: a short autobiography
of Sera Khandro, translated by Chatral Rinpochs disciple-translator
Christina Monson.
PLEASE NOTE: The directors and staff of Tsadra
Foundation and Shambhala Publications, the lamas overseeing the
creation of this book, and the translator ask for your cooperation in
ensuring that the express wish and vajra words of Chatral Sangy Dorj
Rinpoch, who authorized our work, be respected. The readership of this
book is restricted to those who have completed the minimum five hundred
thousand accumulations of the uncommon preliminary practices of Tibetan
Buddhism.