Essentials of Mahamudra

Looking Directly at the Mind

By: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

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Paperback | 1 March 1996

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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.

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Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is one of the few remaining living Tibetan Buddhist teachers who was born in a free Tibet. Between 1990 and 1995, he conducted five retreats at Big Bear Lake, California. His talks there have been edited into Essentials of Mahamudra. During these talks, Rinpoche presented a comprehensive introduction to the mahamudra path. Similar to the practice of Dzogchen, mahamudra is a direct and powerful practice. There are two central meditative practices: peaceful abiding, shamatha, and insight, vipashyana. This work discusses these two corrollary meditative approaches in great detail, moving back and forth between the two. As always, Rinpoche's instructions are beautifully [clear].-- "Ashe Journal"
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche [is] one of the foremost mahamudra teachers. 'It [mahamudra meditation] is peaceful and gentle, ' he writes in Essentials of Mahamudra. The book is based on Tashi Namgyal's 'Moonlight of Mahamudra, ' a sixteenth-century text that lays out the rationale behind the mahamudra practices, along with detailed instructions, including how to continue practicing off the cushion. Essentials contains answers to students' questions--helpful to practitioners at any level.-- "Tricycle"

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Aspects of Religion for Non-Christians Spirituality & Religious Experience Mind, Body, Spirit Buddhism Tibetan Buddhism

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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