Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra

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Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2004 - Philosophy - 199 pages
A Buddhist Classic
A practical manual for both teacher and student alike, Clarifying the Natural State covers the path from mindfulness to complete enlightenment, simply and methodically. Presenting the profound and ultimate instructions of Mahamudra, it embodies the realization of India and Tibet's greatest masters.

The words of Dakpo Tashi Namgyal are unique. Adorned with plenty of pithy advice out of his personal experience, practitioners are greatly benefited by his instructions on how to remove hindrances and progress further. His methods for practicing Mahamudra are preeminent. This book is indispensable as it focuses exclusively on practice.
-Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Elevate your experience and remain wide open like the sky. Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth. Steady your attention and remain unshakable like a mountain. Brighten your awareness and remain shining like a flame. Clear your thought free wakefulness and remain lucid like a crystal.
- Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
16th Century
 

Contents

Opening Verses
13
PART
17
Shamatha without Attributes
23
Guiding by Means of Vipashyana
26
Clearing Up Uncertainties About Basis
31
Steps of PointingOut Instruction
40
PART THREE
53
Cutting through Hindrances Sidetracks and Straying
59
Developing Strength by Utilizing the Conducts
70
How Realization Arises and the Enhancement
76
Simplicity and Its Enhancement
84
One Taste and Its Enhancement
89
Nonmeditation and Its Enhancement
95
PART FOUR
101
Colophon
104
Copyright

Enhancing by Transcending into Nonarising
64

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