Healing with Form, Energy, and Light The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen,9781559391764

Healing with Form, Energy, and Light The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen

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ISBN13: 9781559391764
ISBN10: 1559391766
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Pub. Date: 2002-04-24
Publisher(s): Snow Lion
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Summary

In the highest teachings, the elements are understood to be the radiance of being and are accessed through pure awareness. This book offers the reader healing meditations and yogic practices on each of these levels.

Author Biography

TENZIN WANGYAL RINPOCHE, a lama in the Bön tradition of Tibet, presently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the founder and director of Ligmincha Institute, an organization dedicated to the study and practice of the teachings of the Bön tradition. He was born in Amritsar, India, after his parents fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet and received training from both Buddhist and Bön teachers, attaining the degree of Geshe, the highest academic degree of traditional Tibetan culture. He has been in the United States since 1991 and has taught widely in Europe and America.

Table of Contents

Preface x
The Prayer of the Intermediate State xiii
Introduction xvii
The Bon Religion xix
The Elements
1(32)
Three Levels of Spiritual Practice
3(2)
External
3(1)
Internal
3(1)
Secret
4(1)
Relating to the Sacred
5(3)
The Five Pure Lights
8(3)
The Dissolution of the Elements
11(1)
Understanding Through the Elements
11(1)
Relating Oneself to the Elements
12(9)
Earth
13(2)
Water
15(1)
Fire
16(1)
Air
17(2)
Space
19(2)
The Elements and Our Well-Being
21(1)
How the Elements Become Unbalanced
22(2)
The Arising of Problems
24(2)
Purification and Cultivation
26(1)
Knowing Which Element to Work With
27(1)
Working with the Elements
28(2)
Choosing the Level of the Practice
30(3)
The Five Elements in Shamanism
33(43)
La, Yee, and Sem
36(2)
Ls, Sok, and Tse
38(1)
Practices
38(2)
Working with the Elements in Nature
40(6)
The Nine Purification Breaths
41(1)
Earth
42(1)
Water
43(1)
Fire
44(1)
Air
45(1)
Space
45(1)
Dedication
46(1)
Elemental Spirits
46(4)
Relating to Non-Physical Beings
50(3)
First Guests
50(1)
Second Guests
51(1)
Third Guests
51(1)
Fourth Guests
52(1)
Making Offerings
53(4)
Soul Loss and the Retrieval of the Elemental Energies
57(2)
The Arrow, Turquoise, and Soul Deer
59(1)
The Practice of Retrieving the Elemental Energies
60(14)
Outline of the Practice
60(1)
The Nine Purification Breaths
61(1)
Guru Yoga
61(1)
The Four Guests
62(1)
The Transformation of the Body
63(2)
The Transformation of the Energy
65(1)
Retrieving the Elemental Energies
66(2)
The Transformation of the Mind
68(2)
The Long Life Mantra
70(1)
Dedication
70(1)
The Goddess Practice with the Other Elements
71(3)
The Practice in Daily Life
74(2)
The Five Elements in Tantra
76(35)
The Horse, Path, Rider, and Armor
77(6)
The Horse: Prana
77(1)
The Functions of the Five Pranas
77(3)
The Path: Channels
80(2)
The Rider: Tigle
82(1)
The Armor: Syllables
82(1)
Aspects of Tantra
83(6)
Chakras
83(1)
Positive and Negative
84(2)
Supporting Positive Qualities
86(3)
The Practice of Tsa Lung
89(20)
Posture
90(1)
Breath and Prana
90(2)
Transformation in Holding and Releasing
92(1)
Instructions
93(1)
The Five External Tsa Lung Movements
93(12)
The Five Internal Tsa Lung Practices
105(2)
The Five Secret Tsa Lung Practices
107(2)
Opening the Chakras
109(2)
The Five Elements in the Great Perfection
111(23)
The Great Perfection
111(1)
Creating Samsara
112(1)
The Six Lamps
113(5)
Sound, Light, and Rays
118(2)
Being with Problems
120(2)
Dissolving Samsara
122(4)
Appreciating the Space Element
126(3)
Integrating with Space and the Other Four Lights
129(1)
The Dark Retreat: Visions of the Five Elements
130(4)
Final Words
134(5)
Glossary 139(8)
Bibliography 147(2)
Appendix 1: Astrological Directions 149(2)
Appendix 2: List of Contacts 151(4)
Appendix 3: The Prayer of the Intermediate State 155

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