Perfect Clarity: A Tibetan Buddhist Anthology of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
Erik Pema Kunsang, Marcia Schmidt, Michael Tweed
Language: English
Pages: 165
ISBN: 2:00159078
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Perfect Clarity is an anthology of essential writings on Mahamudra and Dzogchen for the student of Tibetan Buddhism. Mahamudra, a meditation practice focusing on the nature of mind, and Dzogchen, a body of teachings aimed at realizing the "great perfection" or natural, primordial state, are central to Vajrayana practitioners today.
Translator Erik Pema Kunsang has selected works by legendary masters both ancient and modern. From the distant, mythic past come teachings from Guru Rinpoche (also known as Padmasambhava), the tantric master who established Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet in the ninth century, his consort Yeshe Tsogyal, and the famous yogis Milarepa (1040-1123), and Longchenpa (1308-1363). More recent teachers included in this collection are Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991), and Khenpo Ganshar, the root guru of Chogyam Trungpa, and Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. The writings are in a variety of forms reflecting the genius of each contributor: chapters of detailed meditation instructions, inspired poems, and parable-like stories.
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An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
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appear. This is like the hallucinatory visions that appear when pressing on one’s eyes or when one’s nervous system is disturbed by an imbalance of subtle energies (pranas). “Though from the viewpoint of the ego-clinging consciousness a great variety of things arise from our basic nature, they don’t depart from or occur separately from the basic nature itself. This is similar to one who has mastered the samadhi of conjuring apparitions—when he enters that samadhi, all kinds of apparitions
you pull up the stake to which is tied the dualistic mind that maintains a perceiver and something perceived, and you disentangle the naked and wide-open natural state—a luminous emptiness without center or edge. To resolve this bright and open natural state is called the essence of knowing; it is the dawn of the naked wakefulness of knowing free from the covers of fixated experience. This is the instruction in cutting through the web of samsaric existence. With this spontaneous self-cognizance
afraid or terrified by the brilliant colors and lights. Resolve that they are your own expressions. Together with these lights, dull-colored lights will also appear and attract your mind. Do not be attached to them. They are the self-display of the five poisons, the pathways of samsara. Your experience will arise as pure and impure paths, so do not miss the right path to be chosen. From the heart centers of the male and female buddhas of the five families, shafts of light reach your eyes.
BUDDHAS. Vairotsana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitabha, and Amoghasiddhi. KARMA. The unerring law that virtuous actions yield virtuous results and that unvirtuous actions yield unvirtuous results. Specifically, it refers to the voluntary actions of thought, word, and deed, the effects of which determine the rebirths and experiences of individual sentient beings. KNOWLEDGE. See means and knowledge. KUSULU. A type of yogi, doing what comes naturally. MADHYAMAKA. See middle way. MAHAMUDRA.
be, there are four parts. - 15 - First, letting be like a brahman braiding a thread. Just as such a brahman must keep a balance between tight and loose, when the meditation training is too concentrated you stray into thinking and when too slack you remain sluggish. Therefore maintain a balance between tight and loose. In other words, a beginner should at first concentrate by directly cutting the sudden arising, and then when tired of that, loosen by leaving whatever takes place without
