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Longchenpa's classic Buddhist manual for attaining liberation teaches us how to familiarize ourselves with our most basic nature--the clear, pristine, and aware mind. Written in the fourteenth century, this text is the first volume of Longchenpa's Trilogy of Rest, a work of the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition. This profound and comprehensive presentation of the Buddhist view and path combines the scholastic expository method with direct pith instructions designed for yogi practitioners.
This first part of the Trilogy of Rest sets the foundation for the following two volumes: Finding Rest in Meditation, which focuses on Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice, and Finding Rest in Illusion, which focuses on post-meditation yogic conduct. The Padmakara Translation Group has provided us with a clear and fluid new translation to Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind along with selections from its autocommentary, The Great Chariot, which will serve as a genuine aid to study and meditation.
Here, we find essential instructions on the need to turn away from materialism, how to find a qualified guide, how to develop boundless compassion for all beings, along with the view of tantra and associated meditation techniques. The work culminates with pointing out the result of practice as presented from the Dzogchen perspective, providing us with all the tools necessary to traverse the Tibetan Buddhist path of finding rest.
Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: Trilogy of Rest, Volume 1, Longchenpa, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 2017, 384 pages, $29.95
LONGCHEN RABJAM (1308–1363), also known as Longchenpa, is a great luminary of Tibetan Buddhism. He was highly skilled in all aspects of scholarship from an early age and excelled throughout his life in the practice and accomplishment of the Dharma. Regarded as a great Dzogchen master, Longchenpa had many pure visions where he was given direct instructions from Guru Padmasambhava and is recognized as an emanation of Vimalamitra. Longchenpa’s prolific writings have made him one of Tibet’s most renowned and precious teachers. The PADMAKARA TRANSLATION GROUP, based in France, has a distinguished reputation for all its translations of Tibetan texts and teachings. Its work has been published in several languages and is renowned for its clear and accurate literary style.
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| Contents: Finding Rest in the Nature of the
Mind |
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| Foreward by Alak Zenkar Rinpoche |
xiii |
| Foreword by Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche |
xv |
| Translators'
introcudtion |
xix |
| Part one: Finding rest in
the nature of the mind |
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| Prologue |
3 |
| 1.
The freedoms and advantages of human birth so hard to find |
5 |
| 2. Impermanence |
11 |
| 3.
The sufferings of samsara |
17 |
| 4. The karmic law of cause
and effect |
35 |
| 5. The spiritual master |
51 |
| 6 . Refuge |
67 |
| 7.
Four unbounded attitudes |
75 |
| 8.
Cultivating the attitude of mind oriented toward enlightenment |
85 |
| 9. The
generation and perfection stages and their union |
103 |
| 10. The view that
dwells in neither of the two extremes, the wisdom whereby the nature of
the ground is realized |
115 |
| 11. The path:
stainless meditative concentration |
117 |
| 12. The three
aspects of meditative concentration |
143 |
| 13. The great,
spontaneously present result |
151 |
| Conclusion |
163 |
| Part Two: Excerpts
from the great chariot |
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| The mind is the
root of all phenomena |
167 |
| Mind, intellect,
and consciousness |
171 |
| The eight
consciousness as the basis of delusion |
175 |
| The three natures |
179 |
| The universal ground |
191 |
| The universal
ground, the eight consciousnesses, and the state of sleep |
201 |
| The tathagatagarbha |
205 |
| Refuge |
243 |
| The three
concentrations of the generation stage |
253 |
| The simple practice
of the generation and perfection stages |
257 |
| The mind and the
objects that appear to it |
261 |
| The omniscient
Longchenpa speaks about his realization |
265 |
| Notes |
269 |
| Texts cited in the
great chariot |
301 |
| Bibliography |
305 |
| The Padmakara
Translation group translations into English |
309 |
| Index |
313 |
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