Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for MahamudraA 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 |
Enhancing by Transcending into Nonarising | 64 |
Common terms and phrases
aware emptiness aware mind become meditation bliss bodhichitta calm ception CHOKGYUR LINGPA cleared up uncertainties clinging conceptual Dakpo Tashi Namgyal Dharma friends dharmakaya dissolved distracted dream Dzogchen empty and aware ence enhancement ensuing certainty ensuing perceptions experienced feel fixating Gampopa guru guru yoga indivisible intangible investigate keep look directly lucid magical illusion Mahamudra master means meditation and postmeditation meditation practice meditation training meditation-moods meditative moods mindful presence naturally aware presence nirvana nonarising Nonmeditation One-Pointedness ordinary mind original wakefulness path perceptions and mind perfected the strength personal experience Pointing Out Innate pointing-out instruction posture Practice Lineage presence of mind recognize relax remain resolve samadhi samsara savoring seen the essence sentient shamatha simply spiritual practice steps of guidance straying sustain Taste thought movement thought or perception thoughtfree thoughts and perceptions Thrangu Rinpoche tion transcending TULKU URGYEN RINPOCHE uncontrived undistracted unidentifiable Utilizing vajra vipashyana visual visual perception vividly yidam གཉིས་པ་ནི དང་པོ་ནི