Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind

✍ Scribed by Longchenpa

• Publisher: Shambhala
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 320 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0834841169

✦ Synopsis

A new translation of Longchenpa's famous work that presents the entire scope of the Buddhist view combined with pith instructions pointing out the nature of one's mind.
Longchenpa's classic Buddhist manual for attaining liberation teaches us how to familiarize ourselves with our most basic nature--the clear, pristine, and aware mind. Written in the fourteenth century, this text is the first volume of Longchenpa's Trilogy of Rest, a work of the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition. This profound and comprehensive presentation of the Buddhist view and path combines the scholastic expository method with direct pith instructions designed for yogi practitioners.
This first part of the Trilogy of Rest sets the foundation for the following two volumes: Finding Rest in Meditation , which focuses on Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice, and Finding Rest in Illusion , which focuses on post-meditation yogic conduct. The Padmakara Translation Group has provided us with a...