Mind beyond death / by Dzogchen Ponlop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intermediate state--Buddhism.

Intermediate state.

Death--Religiou aspects--Buddhism.

Death.

Spiritual life--Buddhism.

Spiritual life.

Buddhism--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Doctrines.

Buddhism.

China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Physical Description:

xxx, 318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, [2006]

Contents:

Tibetan xvii

English xxiii

Introduction: Gambling with the Lord of Death 1

1 The Moment of Truth 9

The Bardo Teachings 11

What Is Bardo? 12

Conceptual and Essence Bardos 13

The Fork in the Road 14

Trapped in Time 15

Neither Here nor There 16

Day-to-day Business 17

Overwhelming Emotions 18

Message From the Lineage 20

Classifications of the Bardos 21

Sources of the Bardo Teachings 23

The Six Root Verses of the Six Bardos 25

2 Pure Delusion: The Natural Bardo of This Life 27

The Dance of Appearances 28

Pure and Impure Appearances 30

Embodied Mind 32

The Three Stages of the Path 34

The Stage of Study 36

The Stage of Contemplation 38

Practices for the Stage of Contemplation 39

Befriending Intense Emotions 42

The Stage of Meditation 43

Foundational Practices: Training and Purification 45

Settling the Mind: The Three Postures 46

The Actual Practice: Padmasambhava's Instructions for Shamatha 49

Shamatha with External Object 50

Shamatha with White Bindu Visualization 51

Shamatha with Red Bindu Visualization 51

Shamatha without Object 52

Deity Yoga 54

Setting a Specific Intention for Our Practice 56

For Only So Long 58

3 Waking the Dreamer: The Bardo of Dream 61

Appearance-Emptiness 62

Impure and Pure Dreams 65

Entering the Dream State 65

Continuation of Confusion 66

Waking Up in the Dream 67

Training in the Illusory Body 68

Training in Dream Yoga 77

Training in Luminosity Yoga 86

Fruition of Training 87

Dreams and Dreamers 89

Looking at the Dream 89

Looking at the Dreamer 90

Looking at the Time Span 90

Lighting a Torch in the Darkness 92

4 Mastering The Mind: The Bardo of Meditation 95

Meditation as Bardo 96

Vipashyana 97

Domesticating Wild Mind 99

Stages of Training in Selflessness 100

Pointing-out Mind's Nature 103

Looking Directly at Mind 104

Gaining Certainty in Liberation 107

Three Words That Strike the Vital Point 107

Dzogchen's Four Great Modes of Liberation 108

Taking the Message of Liberation to Heart 110

Accepting and Rejecting 111

Self-existing Wisdom 113

Letting Go of Freedom 114

The Nature of All 115

Guarding Awareness 116

Path of Skillful Means 117

Connecting the Bardos of Life and Death 118

5 Evaporating Reality: The Painful Bardo of Dying 119

Attachment to This Life 121

Three Capacities of Practitioners 122

Preparing For Death 125

Dissolving of the Elements 126

Coarse and Subtle Bodies 126

The Coarse Dissolution Process 129

The Subtle Dissolution Process 134

The Stages of Luminosity 139

Practices For Dying 141

Path of Devotion 141

Recognizing a Last Chance 142

The Practice of Phowa 143

Methods of Transformation 147

Sudden Death 153

All Practices Are Phowa 154

Planning our Last Thought 155

Looking Ahead 156

Aiming for the Highest 157

6 Egoless Journey: The Luminous Bardo of Dharmata 161

Exploring New Experiences 162

Dharmakaya Luminosity: The Luminosity of No Appearance 163

Ground Luminosity: The Wisdom of Dharmata 163

Meeting of Mother and Child Luminosities 166

Searching for Home 168

Auspicious Causes and Conditions 169

Generating Samadhi Mind 169

Sambhogakaya Luminosity: The Luminosity of Appearance 173

Spontaneously Arising Luminosity 174

The Four Wisdom Lights 183

The Light of Buddha Activity 184

Visions of Spontaneous Presence 185

Taking the Bardo of Dharmata onto the Path 187

Looking at the Nature of Mind 187

Visualization of the Hundred Deities 187

Taking Light as the Path 188

Taking Sound as the Path 190

Taking Pain and Sickness as the Path 191

Taking Delight and Misery as the Path 193

Taking Emotions as the Path 194

Knowing the Territory 195

The Two Kayas of the Bardo of Dharmata 195

Over in an Instant 195

Arriving at the Next Destination 196

7 To Be or Not To Be: The Karmic Bardo of Becoming 199

Nirmanakaya Luminosity 200

Unceasing Appearances 201

Reemergence of Confusion 203

The Miraculous Power of Karmic Mind 204

Creating Auspicious Connections 205

Dawning of the Six Realms 208

Becoming: Qualities of the Six Realms 210

Practices for Becoming 217

Creation Stage Practices 218

Completion Stage Practices 222

Transforming Through Renunciation 224

Plan A and Plan B 225

Vajrayana View of Practice 226

View of Creation Stage 228

View of Completion Stage 232

Mind Beyond Death 233

Appendix I The Sutra on Wisdom for the Time of Death

Tibetan 239

English 241

Appendix II Vajra Songs of Realization 243

All These Forms 243

The Eight Cases of Basic Goodness Not To Be Shunned 244

Guru Rinpoche Prayer 246

Seven Delights 248

The Six Bardos by Rechungpa 251

Appendix III Two Poems by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche 253

A Reminder To Myself 253

Heaven 254

Appendix IV Looking Back: The Purpose of Ngondro 255

The Vajrayana Roller Coaster 256

Purpose of Ngondro 257

The Four Tantra Ngondro Practices 239

An Important Point 261

Appendix V The Stages of Dissolution 263

Appendix VI The Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities 267

Traditional Texts 297

Contemporary Commentaries 297

Audio and Video Tapes 298

Nalandabodhi Centers 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-298) and index.

ISBN:

9781559392761

1559392762

OCLC:

76937318