Mahamudra: The Quintessence of Mind and Meditation

Front Cover......Page 1
Back Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Foreword by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Translator\'s Introduction......Page 20
Reader\'s Key to the Riches of Mahamudra......Page 42
Introduction......Page 64
Book One: A Concise Elucidation of the Common System of Tranquil Equipoise......Page 74
1. The Ordinary Meditation of Tranquility and Insight......Page 78
2. The Stages of Tranquility and Insight, Part I: Tranquility......Page 100
3. The Stages of Tranquility and Insight, Part II: Insight......Page 112
4. The Stages of Tranquility and Insight, Part III: Clearing Doubts Regarding the Methods for Maintaining the Vision of Reality and Meditative Absorrption......Page 131
Book Two: An Extensive Elucidation of Mahamudra, the Uncommon Meditation......Page 150
Part I: Preliminary Exposition......Page 152
1. Exposition Engendering Confidence......Page 153
2. Preparatory Practices......Page 182
Part II: The Main Meditation of Mahamudra......Page 204
3. Guiding Meditators on the Path: Tranquility......Page 207
4. Guiding Meditators on the Path: Insight......Page 236
5. The Stages of Virtuous Practice......Page 274
6. Consolidation of Experience in Meditation: How to Maintain Absorption and Postabsorption......Page 312
7. Consolidation of Experience in Meditation: How to Get Rid of Meditative Deviation......Page 354
8. Consolidation of Experience in Meditation: How to Determine the Mind as Nonarising [Emptiness] and Enhance Meditation......Page 375
9. The Resultant Dawning of Realization......Page 411
Dedication......Page 470
Colophon......Page 473
Translator\'s Notes......Page 476
Bibliography......Page 524
Index of Quotations......Page 536
Index to Kagyur and Tangyur of Quotations in Mahamudra Text......Page 537