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What would you see if you looked directly at your mind?
The Tibetan Buddhist teachings on mahamudra are known for their ability to lead to profound realization. Peaceful and infinitely adaptable, these teachings are as useful for today's busy world as they have been for centuries.
Written by the tutor to the seventeenth Karmapa, Essentials of Mahamudra is a commentary on Tashi Namgyal's famous Moonlight of Mahamudra - a text that the sixteenth Karmapa had identified as the most valuable for Westerners. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche recognized that Western meditators don't just need to know how to maintain our meditation practice - we need to know why we should do it. Unmatched in its directness, Essentials of Mahamudra addresses both these needs, rendering one of the most advanced forms of meditation more easily adaptable to our everyday lives.
Essentials of Mahamudra : Looking Directly at the Mind
by Rinpoche, Khenchen ThranguFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-03-01
Publisher(s): Wisdom Publications
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Author Biography
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is tutor to His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa and a teacher of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. VII |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Meditations Shared by Other Traditions | p. 13 |
| The Shared Tradition of Shamata and Vipashyana | p. 15 |
| The Shared Tradition of Shamata Meditation | p. 31 |
| The Shared Tradition of Vipashyana Meditation | p. 45 |
| Eliminating Doubts Concerning Vipashyana Meditation | p. 63 |
| Mahamudra Meditation | p. 71 |
| The Origins of Mahamudra | p. 73 |
| The Preparatory Practices for Mahamudra | p. 93 |
| Mahamudra Shamata Meditation | p. 101 |
| Mahamudra Vipashyana Meditation | p. 119 |
| Eliminating Doubts about Vipashyana | p. 137 |
| Mind As It Is and Coemergence | p. 149 |
| Eliminating Flaws That May Arise in Mahamudra | p. 169 |
| Maintaining Mahamudra in Meditation and Postmeditation | p. 181 |
| Eliminating Obstacles to Mahamudra | p. 209 |
| The Practice of Utterly Releasing | p. 219 |
| Bringing Obstacles to the Path | p. 229 |
| How Realization Dawns | p. 239 |
| How We Should Practice | p. 251 |
| Notes | p. 257 |
| Glossary | p. 261 |
| Table of Tibetan Terms | p. 265 |
| Index | p. 269 |
| About the Author | p. 275 |
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