Crystal Clear: Practical Advice for Mahamudra Meditators

Contents......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 9
PURE MOTIVATION......Page 13
Clarifying the  Natural State......Page 15
71Je  Buddha ' s  Enlightenment  and  Teaching......Page 17
The  Special  Quality oj  Mahamudra......Page 19
General Preliminaries......Page 24
Specific Preliminaries......Page 25
Posture......Page 29
The  Nature  of Mind and  the  Purpose of  Shamatha......Page 34
Supported Shamatha......Page 35
Unsupported Shamatha With Breathing  Practice......Page 38
Unsupported Shamatha Without Breathing  Practice......Page 41
Hindrances-Agitation and  Dullness......Page 42
Tightening and  Loosening......Page 43
Importance  of Shamatha......Page 45
What is  Vipashyana?......Page 47
The  Path s  of Reasoning and  Direct  Perception......Page 48
Establishing  the  Identity oj Mind and  the  Perceptions......Page 53
Establishing  the  Identity of Mind-the  Basis......Page 55
Establishing  the  Identity  of Thoughts  and  Perceptions-the Expression......Page 59
CLEARING  UP  UNCERTAINTIES  ABOUT  BASIS AND EXPRESSION......Page 63
Resolving  that  Thoughts  and  Emotions  are  Mind......Page 64
Resolving  That Perceptions  Are  Mind......Page 72
Investigating the  Calm and  the  Moving Mind......Page 74
Resolving  That All Experience Is  Nonarising......Page 76
Pointing  Out  of the  Innate......Page 79
Pointing Out  Innate  Mind-Essence......Page 81
Pointing  Out  the  Innate  in  Thinking......Page 87
Pointing  Out  the  Innate  in  Perception......Page 89
Mistakes and  Faulty  Meditation......Page 92
Flawless  Meditation Practice......Page 98
GENERAL REASONS  FOR MEDITATION TRAINING......Page 102
SPECIAL  TRAINING WITHOUT SEPARATING  MEDITATION AND   POSTMEDITATION......Page 105
The  Straying  with  Regard  to  the  Nature  of Knowables......Page 110
Straying  with  R egard  to  the  Remedy......Page 112
Straying  with  Regard  to  Generalization......Page 113
SIDETRACKS......Page 114
Time for  Transcending......Page 115
Investigating Thoughts  and  Perceptions......Page 117
Investigating  the  Meditation and  the  Meditating Mind......Page 118
Mingling  Meditation and  Postmeditation, Day  ana  Night......Page 119
The  Time for  Utilizing  and  the  Conducts......Page 121
Utilizing  Thoughts......Page 123
Utilizing  Emotions......Page 125
Utilizing  Gods and  Demons......Page 127
Utilizing  Suffering......Page 129
Utilizing  Sickness......Page 130
Utilizing  the  Death  Process......Page 131
The  Four Schools and  the  Eight Consciousnesses......Page 134
HOW  REALIZATION ARISES  AND THE ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES......Page 140
The  Various Ways Realization  Arises......Page 141
One-Pointedness  and  its  Enhancement......Page 143
Bad  Influences and  Unfavorable  Circumstances......Page 145
Simplicity  and  its  Enhancement......Page 147
One  Taste and  its  Enhancement......Page 151
Nonmeditation  and  its Enhancement......Page 152
COMPARING THE FOUR  YOGAS  TO  THE PATHS  AND STAGES......Page 155
POSTSCRIPT......Page 163
GLOSSARY  OF  TEXTS,  PEOPLE AND TECHNICAL TERMS......Page 166
SHORT  BIOGRAPHY OF KHENCHEN THRANGU  RINPOCHE......Page 8