Foreward |
ix |
| Part One The Buddhist Path |
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1. My Focus |
3 |
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2. Empathy: The Basic Practice |
10 |
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3. Meditation: Channeling the Force of Mind |
16 |
Identifying the Mind
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20 |
Technique
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22 |
4. Knowledge: The Purpose of Concentration |
24 |
Begin with Yourself
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27 |
Progress to Enlightenment
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28 |
Qualities of Buddhahood
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34 |
Part Two: Introduction to the Great Completeness |
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| 5. The Fundamental Principle Common to All Orders of Tibetan Buddhism |
41 |
Innermost Awareness Pervades Every Type of Consciousness
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43 |
Praticing the Path Right Now
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44 |
6. The Innate Mind of Clear Light |
46 |
No Exertion |
46 |
The Centrality of the Mind of Clear Light |
47 |
Types of Books |
48 |
Part Three Commentary of Patrul Rinpoche's Three Keys Penetrating the Core |
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7. The First Key: Introducing Innermost Awareness |
53 |
Relax
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55 |
Stop Thinking for a While
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56 |
Shock
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56 |
8. The Supreme Way to Rest |
61 |
Levels of Consciousness
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61 |
The Clear Light within All Consciousness
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74 |
9. The All-Good Diamond Mind |
77 |
Aiming Your Attention at Space
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78 |
Identifying Innermost Awareness
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78 |
| 10. The Second Key: Maintaining Meditation |
81 |
No Danger
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82 |
Clouds and Sky
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83 |
Meeting of Mother and Child
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84 |
The Clear Light of Death |
85 |
Mother and Child Clear Lights in the Poem
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87 |
Remaining in the Experience |
88 |
Dealing with Interference |
88 |
Inside Meditation and Outside Meditation Are Similar |
89 |
Three Types of Release from Conception |
91 |
| 11. The Gradual Way |
93 |
The Danger |
94 |
Coming to a Decision |
95 |
| 12. The Third Key: Self-Release |
97 |
The Space of Noninvolvement |
98 |
The Crucial Difference |
101 |
Confidence |
102 |
| 13. Uniqueness of the Three Keys |
104 |
Altrusism |
105 |
The Greatness of the Path |
105 |
The Triad of View, Meditation, and Behavior |
109 |
The Final Lines of the Poem |
115 |
| Part Four The Old and New Translation Schools Compared |
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| 14. Basic Structure in the Old Translation School of the Great Completeness |
119 |
The Two Truths |
119 |
Basis, Paths, and Fruits |
123 |
A Special Meaning of "Meditation" |
128 |
| 15. Advice |
133 |
Appendix: Three Keys Penetrating the Core by Dza Patrul Jigme Chokyi Wangpo |
137 |
| Selected Readings |
141 |
| Index |
143 |
