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Contents: An Ocean of the Ultimate Meaning - Teachings on Mahamudra |
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Translators Preface |
ix |
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Acknowledgments |
xiv |
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Introduction |
xv |
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Part One
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THE PRELIMINARIES
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The Particular Preliminaries |
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The Causal Condition: An Aspiration for the Dharma |
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The Primary Condition: The Teacher |
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The Objective Condition: Recognizing the True Nature |
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The Immediate Condition: Looking at Mind as It Is |
9 |
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Part Two
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THE MAIN PRACTICE
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Shamatha
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Essential Points of the Main Meditation |
13 |
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Essential Points of the Body: Posture |
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Essential Points of the Mind: The Eight Consciousnesses |
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Settling the Unsettled Mind |
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The General Instructions: Resting the Mind |
27 |
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Methods of Meditation |
30 |
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Focusing on an Impure Object |
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Focusing on a Pure Object |
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Focusing Internally |
33 |
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Focusing without an Object |
34 |
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Focusing on the Breath |
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Stages of Mental Stability |
38 |
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Stabilizing the Settled Mind |
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Eliminating Dullness: Binding Above |
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Eliminating Agitation: Binding Below |
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Cutting through Thoughts |
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Nine Methods for Stabilizing the Mind |
45 |
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Enhancing Stability in Meditation |
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Focusing on Sensory Perceptions |
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Focusing on Thoughts |
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Tightening and Loosening |
58 |
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Eliminating Errors in Meditation |
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Understanding Emptiness: The Three Turning of the Dharma Wheel |
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The First Turning: The Selflessness of the Individual |
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The Second Turning: The Selflessness of Phenomena |
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The Third Turning: Buddha Nature |
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Vipashyana
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Ascertaining the Mind's Nature |
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Looking at the Mind at Rest |
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Looking at the Mind in Movement |
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Cutting through the Root |
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Eleven Activities of Vipashyana |
87 |
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Developing Certainty in the Union of Emptiness and Awareness |
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Pointing Out the Nature of Mind through Movement |
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Pointing Out the Nature of Mind through Appearances |
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Philosophical Explanations of Appearances as Mind |
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The Hinayana Views |
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The Mind Only View |
108 |
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Recognition through Direct Experience |
110 |
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Pointing Out That Appearances Are Mind |
110 |
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Pointing Out That Mind is Empty |
115 |
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Pointing Out That Emptiness is Natural Presence |
117 |
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Pointing Out That Natural Presence Is Self-Liberated |
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Part Three
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THE CONCLUDING TOPICS
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Enhancing the Result |
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Eliminating the Five Misconceptions |
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Developing the Three Skills |
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Avoiding the Four Deviations
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Passing through the Three Dangerous Pathways |
138 |
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Eliminating Obstacles |
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The Obstacle of Illness |
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The Obstacle of Demons |
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The Obstacles to Meditation |
149 |
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Proceeding along the Path: The Four Yogas of Mahamudra |
152 |
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Attaining the Result |
161 |
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Part Four
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THE SUPPLEMENTARY TEACHINGS
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Further Explanations of Mahamudra |
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The Nature of Mahamudra |
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Categories of Mahamudra |
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Ground Mahamudra |
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Path Mahamudra |
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Result Mahamudra |
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The Meaning of the Word |
174 |
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Joining with Coemergence |
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Gaining the Ultimate Result |
176 |
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Afterword |
178 |
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Notes |
182 |
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Glossary |
187 |
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Index |
201 |
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About the Author |
205 |