Contents: King Doha:
Saraha's Advice to a King
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Foreword by Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche
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x
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Biography of Author
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xiii
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Acknowledgements
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xvii
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Editor's Introduction
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xviii
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Editor's Biography
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xxiii
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Introductory Remarks
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xxiv
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OVERVIEW OF MAHAMUDRA
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Buddhism: More than One Approach
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Renunciation
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2
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Purification
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3
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Transformation
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4
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Self-liberation
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6
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Contrasting the path of liberation
with the path of method
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9
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Establishing the View
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10
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Combining paying attention with
remembrance
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10
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Understanding the mind
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11
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Adopting an uncontrived approach
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11
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Learning how to simply be
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12
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Having confidence that buddha is no
other.
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13
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Being in the state of authenticity
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14
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Understanding the different apects of
the mind
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14
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Appreciating what meditation is about
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15
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Working with the three aspects of the
mind: nature, essence, and characteristic
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18
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Appreciating mind's creative energy
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19
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Not battling thoughts
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20
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Being skillful
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22
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Realizing the ground is the fruit
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23
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The Path: Shamatha and Vipashyana
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24
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Letting go of the running commenentary
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25
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Maintaining awareness whether the mind
is stable or in movement
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26
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Strengthening awareness
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28
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The insights of vipashyana
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30
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(i) Seeing all appearances as mind
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30
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(ii) Seeing mind's nature as emptiness
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33
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(iii)Seeing emptiness as
spontaneously-established phenomena
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34
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(iv) Seeing spontaneously-established
penomena as self-liberated
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35
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The non-separability of appearance and
reality
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36
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Shamatha and vipashyana combined
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39
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Maintaining the Mahamudra Attitude
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40
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Correcting mistaken ideas about objects
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40
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Correcting mistaken ideas about time
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41
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Correcting mistaken ideas about the
essence
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42
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Correcting mistaken ideas about the
nature
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44
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Correcting mistaden ideas about
knowledge
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45
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Maintaing our sense of basic confidence
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46
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Experiences and Realization
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48
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The three different kinds of
meditative experiences
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49
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Understanding bliss
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49
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Understanding clarity
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51
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Understanding non-conceptuality
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52
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Straying
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53
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The four stages of realization in
Mahamudra
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55
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SARAHA'S KING DOHA
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Part 1 How we have gone
astray Verses 1-3
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63
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Part 2 How we can rectify
the situation Verses 4-6
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68
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Part 3 Pre;aring to restore
our natural state --overcoming fixation Verses 6-10
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73
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Part 4 Derterming the
significance of the paths Verses 11-20
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79
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Part 5 Discarding
attachments of mistaken paths Verses 21-28
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98
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Part 6 Explaining the
Mahamudra method Verses 29-36
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111
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Part 7 Result
Verses 37-40
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119
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Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche's Concluding
Remarks
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123
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Notes
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124
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Bibliography
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132
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Index
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134
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