The Practice of Mahamudra

✍ Scribed by Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche

• Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 135
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mahamudra, the highest level of teaching within Tibetan Buddhism, rewards study and practice with the realization of the very nature of mind itself. There is not a single experience which is not subsumed within the realizations of Mahamudra. On his first tour of the United States, H.H. Chetsang Rinpoche gave detailed instructions in Mahamudra methods. He carefully explained each of the five stages of Mahamudra and taught its main meditational practices. He also gave precise instructions on posture and breathing for meditation and answered many common questions using the teachings of Tilopa and Gampopa to illustrate his various points. ...the clearest presentation of Mahamudra meditation practice available in English.--Wisconsin Bookwatch

✦ Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
1 THE PRELIMINARIES......Page 16
2 THE ACTUAL PRACTICE
......Page 20
3 MAHAMUDRA: WHAT IS IT?......Page 26
4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS I......Page 30
5 CHANNELING THE BREATH......Page 34
6 BODY POSTURE......Page 38
7 SHAMATHA: STABILIZING THE MIND......Page 42
8 VIPASHYANA: ANALYZING THE NATURE OF MIND......Page 48
9 MEDITATION EXERCISES AND INSTRUCTIONS......Page 62
10 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS II......Page 66
11 THE ATTAINMENT OF NON-ATTAINMENT......Page 72
12 TILOPA’S PITH INSTRUCTIONS......Page 78
13 DHARMA LORD GAMPOPA’S ADVICE......Page 90
14 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS III......Page 108
15 VAJRASATTVA PURIFICATION MEDITATION......Page 114
16 CONCLUSION......Page 122
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF HIS HOLINESS CHETSANG RINPOCHE......Page 126
LONG LIFE PRAYER......Page 132