Mind Beyond Death - Dzogchen Ponlop.rtf

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                ISBN-10: 1-55939-301-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-55939-301-0

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                The Library of Congress catalogued the previous edition of this book as follows:

                Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche, 1965-

                 Mind beyond death / by Dzogchen Ponlop.

                   p. cm.

                 Includes bibliographical references and index.

                 ISBN-13: 978-1-55939-276-1 (alk. paper)

                 ISBN-10: 1-55939-276-2 (alk. paper)

                 1. Intermediate state—Buddhism. 2. Death—Religious aspects—Buddhism. 3. Spiritual life—Buddhism. 4. Buddhism—China—Tibet—Doctrines. I. Title.

              BQ4490.D96 2007

              294.3’423—dc22                                        200603968

                Printed in Canada

              This book is dedicated to my beloved father,     

                the late Dhamchoe Yongdu,     

                and my kind mother, Lekshey Drolma,     

                for giving birth to endless precious opportunities     

                to develop wisdom and compassion.     

              Table of Contents

                Title Page

              Copyright Page

              Foreword by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

              Foreword by Venerable Alak Zenkar Rinpoche

                   Tibetan

                   English

              Editors’Note

              Introduction: Gambling with the Lord of Death

              1. THE MOMENT OF TRUTH

                The Bardo Teachings

              What Is Bardo?

                   Conceptual and Essence Bardos

                   The Fork in the Road

                   Trapped in Time

                   Neither Here nor There

                   Day-to-day Business

                   Overwhelming Emotions

              Message from the Lineage

              Classifications of the Bardos

              Sources of the Bardo Teachings

              The Six Root Verses of the Six Bardos

              2. PURE DELUSION: THE NATURAL BARDO OF THIS LIFE

                The Dance of Appearances

                   Pure and Impure Appearances

              Embodied Mind

              The Three Stages of the Path

              The Stage of Study

              The Stage of Contemplation

                   Practices for the Stage of Contemplation

                   Befriending Intense Emotions

              The Stage of Meditation

                   Foundational Practices: Training and Purification

                   Settling the Mind: The Three Postures

                   The Actual Practice: Padmasambhava’s Instructions for Shamatha

                   Shamatha with External Object

                   Shamatha with White Bindu Visualization

                   Shamatha with Red Bindu Visualization

                   Shamatha without Object

                   Deity Yoga

              Setting a Specific Intention for Our Practice

              For Only So Long

              3. WAKING THE DREAMER: THE BARDO OF DREAM

                Appearance-Emptiness

              Impure and Pure Dreams

                   Entering the Dream State

                   Continuation of Confusion

              Waking Up in the Dream

                   Training in the Illusory Body

                   Training in Dream Yoga

                   Training in Luminosity Yoga

                   Fruition of Training

              Dreams and Dreamers

                   Looking at the Dream

                   Looking at the Dreamer

                   Looking at the Time Span

                   Lighting a Torch in the Darkness

              4. MASTERING THE MIND: THE BARDO OF MEDITATION

                Meditation as Bardo

              Vipashyana

                   Domesticating Wild Mind

                   Stages of Training in Selflessness

                   Pointing-out Mind’s Nature

                   Looking Directly at Mind

              Gaining Certainty in Liberation

                   Three Words That Strike the Vital Point

                   Dzogchen’s Four Great Modes of Liberation

              Taking the Message of Liberation to Heart

                   Accepting and Rejecting

                   Self existing Wisdom

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