The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness
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Five Steps of the Outer Abhisheka
a. Water abhisheka / mirrorlike wisdom
b. Crown abhisheka / wisdom of equanimity
c. Vajra abhisheka / discriminating-awareness wisdom
d. Ghanta abhisheka / wisdom of all-accomplishing actions
e. Name abhisheka / wisdom of all-encompassing space
2. Secret or inner abhisheka / mutual intoxication
3. Prajna-jnana abhisheka / bliss
Four Types of Bliss
a. Freedom from ego
b. Worthy of bliss
c. No inhibitions about going beyond bliss into greater freedom
d. Transcending freedom and bliss altogether
4. Formless abhisheka / That
Two Types of Abhisheka
1. With elaboration / trö-che / first through third abhishekas
2. Without elaboration / trö-me / fourth abhisheka
PART NINE. VAJRAYANA PRACTICE
Chapter 38. Visualization and Sadhana Practice
Two Stages of Vajrayana Practice
1. Visualization or creation stage / kyerim / utpattikrama
2. Nonvisualization or completion stage / dzogrim / sampannakrama
Two Aspects of Yidam
1. Samayasattva
2. Jnanasattva
Giving Birth to Visualization in Eight Steps
1. Formless meditation / dzogrim / shunyata deity
2. Divine principle of letter / visualize bija mantra or seed syllable
3. Divine sound principle / visualize rays of light from bija mantra
4. Transformation of sound into visual symbolism
5. Divine principle of form / visualization takes shape
6. Divine principle of mudra / visualize mudras, symbols, and scepters in hands of deities
7. Divine principle of mark / repetition of mantra
8. Everything dissolves back into charnel ground
Three-Stage Visualization Process
1. Seed syllable / potential of form
2. Symbol / possibility of form
3. Fruition / actual form
Chapter 39. The Importance of a Nontheistic View
Three Approaches to Divinity
1. Hinayana approach / prajna
2. Mahayana approach / buddha nature
3. Vajrayana approach / no external salvation
PART TEN. THE TANTRIC JOURNEY: LOWER TANTRA
Kriyayoga: The Yana of Purity
Chapter 40. Kriyayoga: Trust in Reality
The Nine Yanas
1. Shravakayana /hinayana
2. Pratyekabuddhayana / hinayana
3. Mahayana or bodhisattvayana / mahayana
4. Kriyayogayana / vajrayana
5. Upayogayana / vajrayana
6. Yogayana / vajrayana
7. Mahayogayana / vajrayana
8. Anuyogayana / vajrayana
9. Atiyogayana / vajrayana
The Six Tantric Yanas (Old Translation School)
Lower Tantra
1. Kriyayogayana
2. Upayogayana
3. Yogayana
Higher Tantra
4. Mahayogayana
5. Anuyogayana
6. Atiyogayana / maha ati
Four Tantric Yanas / Four Orders of Tantra (New Translation School)
1. Kriyayoga
2. Upayoga
3. Yogayana
4. Anuttarayoga / mahamudra
Two Approaches to Kündzop in Kriyayoga
1. Purity of action (of body and speech)
2. Purity of attitude
a. Attitude toward form
b. Attitude toward speech
c. Attitude toward mind
Development of Purity
1. Relative bodhichitta / not taking in impurity
2. Absolute bodhichitta / belief or conviction enters your system
3. Union of relative and absolute bodhichitta / seeing overall purity of phenomenal world
Chapter 41. Kriyayoga: Purification
Two Types of Surrendering
1. Surrendering the gross ego / relative bodhichitta
2. Surrendering the refined ego / absolute bodhichitta
Chapter 42. Kriyayoga: Empowerment
Four Foundation Practices
1. Prostrations
2. Refuge formula
3. Vajrasattva mantra recitation
4. Mandala offering
Five Abhishekas of Kriyayoga
1. Preliminary abhisheka / abhisheka of the vajra disciple
2. Water abhisheka / dharmakaya
Five Vase Initiations
a. Opening water abhisheka
b. Water abhisheka of all the deities
c. Vase of the shravakas and pratyekabuddhas
d. Vase of the bodhisattvas
e. Vase of the Buddha
3. Crown abhisheka / sambhogakaya and nirmanakaya
4. Water purification and protection abhisheka
5. Enriching abhisheka
Eight Ingredients or Offerings
a. Milk drink
b. Kusha grass mat
c. Sesame seed
d. Gallbladder of an elephant
e. Red lead / litri
f. Bamboo
g. Wood apple
h. Mirror
Eight Auspicious Symbols
a. Lotus
b. Knot of eternity
c. Umbrella
d. Conch shell
e. Victory banner
f. Golden fish
g. Dharma wheel
h. Treasure vase
Chapter 43. Kriyayoga: Practice
Ingredients to Purify the Ground of the Kriyayoga Mandala
1. Dung
2. Urine
3. Milk
4. Snot
5. Saliva
Six Families of Kriyayoga
Three transcendent families
1. Tathagata / buddha, ratna, and karma families / all buddhas
2. Padma / padma family / Avalokiteshvara
3. Vajra / vajra family / Vajrapani
Three worldly families
1. Jewel / tathagata family / Vaishravana
2. Prosperity or hungry ghost / padma family / hungry ghosts
3. Ordinary / vajra family / god realms
Six Types of Gods in Kriyayoga Visualization
1. Divine beings of shunyata
2. Divine beings of syllables or letters
3. Divine beings of sound
4. Divine beings of form
5. Divine beings of mudra
6. Divine beings of mark
Two Sattva Principles in Kriyayoga
1. Samayasattva
2. Jnanasattva
Two Types of Mantra in Kriyayoga Tantra
1. Secret mantra / sang-ngak / guhyamantra
2. Knowledge mantra / rig-ngak / vidyamantra
Upayoga: The Yana of Conduct
Chapter 44. Upayoga: Unadorned Perception
Chapter 45. Upayoga: Empowerment
Six Abhishekas of Upayoga
1. Water / vase abhisheka / discriminating-awareness wisdom
a. Purify fixations of lower realms
b. Completely uproot samsaric seeds
c. Completely bypass the bhumis
d. Sowing the seed to become regent of vajra master
2. Crown abhisheka
3. Bell abhisheka / wisdom of all-accomplishing actions
4. Vajra abhisheka
Two Types of Insight in the Mind of Enlightenment
a. Seeing
b. Knowing
5. Name abhisheka / wisdom of all-encompassing space
6. Opening the eyes
Two Approaches to Upayoga Families
1. Three Families
a. Vajra body / vajra family
b. Vajra speech / padma family
c. Vajra mind / buddha family
2. Five Families
a. Vajra
b. Ratna
c. Padma
e. Buddha
Two Aspects of Mandala Principle
1. Outer mandala / shrine
2. Inner mandala / your physical body
Three Categories of Upayoga Samaya
1. Samaya of surrendering the gross ego / relative bodhichitta
2. Samaya of surrendering the refined ego / absolute bodhichitta
3. Samaya of the dharmachakra mudra
Chapter 46. Upayoga: Practice
Upayoga Visualization
1. Inner mandala / internal samayasattva
2. Outer mandala / external samayasattva
Three Principles of Unification in Upayoga Visualization
1. Body
2. Speech
3. Mind
Six Types of Gods in Upayoga Visualization
1. Divine beings of shunyata
2. Divine beings of syllables or letters
3. Divine beings of sound
4. Divine beings of form
5. Divine beings of mudra
6. Divine beings of mark
Yogayana: The Yana of Union
Chapter 47. Yogayana: Complete Union
Five Buddha-Families in Yogayana / Twenty-Five Lesser Families
1. Buddha / lesser buddha, vajra, ratna, dharma, karma
2. Vajra / lesser buddha, vajra, ratna, dharma, karma
3. Ratna / lesser buddha, vajra, ratna, dharma, karma
4. Dharma (padma-like) / lesser buddha, vajra, ratna, dharma, karma
5. Karma / lesser buddha, vajra, ratna, dharma, karma
Four Ways of Seeing Each of the Twenty-Five Buddha-Families
1. Essence
2. Manifestation / mudra
3. Secret mantra / guhyamantra
4. Magical power / vidyamantra
Chapter 48. Yogayana: Empowerments and Practice
Two Forms of Entertainment
1. Entertained by your basic being
2. Entertained by devis and the phenomenal world
Three Tests in a Yogayana Abhisheka
1. Throw flower-stick into mandala / major family
2. Throw flower-stick into mandala a second time / lesser family
3. Throw flower-stick into mandala a third time / four divisions of seeing family
Eleven Abhishekas of Yogayana
First Five Abhishekas / Relative Truth
1. Water
2. Crown
3. Vajra scepter
4. Bell
5. Name
Six Further Abhishekas / Absolute Truth / Vajra Master Abhishekas
1. Irreversible abhisheka
2. Secret abhisheka
3. Authorization
4. Final confirmation
5. Encouragement
6. Praise
Two Types of Yogayana Practice
1. Visualization / tsen-che
Four Steps of Visualization Practice
a. Visualization yoga
b. Complete yoga
c. All-inclusive yoga
d. Supreme yoga
2. Formless practice
Fivefold Bodhi Approach to Visualization
1. Visualize lotus seat, sun disk, and moon disk
2. Visualize form or image
3. Visualize scepters or attributes
4. Visualize the totality
5. Visualize placing seed syllables in appropriate centers
Four Karmas Needed for Fire Offering
1. Pacifying / vajra / offer herbs / white flame
2. Enriching / ratna / offer jewelry and minerals / yellow flame
3. Magnetizing / padma / offer clothes and fabrics / red flame
4. Destroying / karma / offer metals, hardwoods, hot spices, flesh and blood / green flame
PART ELEVEN. THE TANTRIC JOURNEY: MAHAMUDRA
Anuttarayoga: Highest Yoga
Chapter 49. The Great Symbol
Three Levels of Anuttarayoga Tantra
1. Root tantra / study
2. Skillful-means tantra / practice
3. Fruition tantra / accomplishment
Chapter 50. Devotion: The Essential Prerequisite for Mahamudra
Three Jewels of Mahamudra
1. Tsakali (icon) / lineage and relationship with living guru
2. Three syllables (OM AH HUM) / realization of nature of mind
3. Crystal vajra / complete understanding of reality without distortion
Chapter 51. Taking a Fresh Look at the Phenomenal World
Six Ways in which Anuttara Is Special
1–2. Literal meaning vs. true meaning
3–4. Thoughtfulness vs. unthoughtfulness
5–6. Interpretation vs. beyond interpretation
Sixfold Teaching Style
1–2. Present and embryonic / being
3–4. Literal and subtle / beyond being
5–6. Direct and indirect / getting a result out of being
Two Aspects of the Process of Perception
1. Perceiving the solidity of the phenomenal world
2. Perceiving the spaciousness of the phenomenal world
Viewing the World as EVAM
1. VAM / unchangeable nature
2. E / all-perception
3. EVAM / E and VAM united
Chapter 52. Uniting with Open Space
The Four Principle Anuttarayoga Abhishekas
1. Outer abhisheka / identifying with the yidam
a. Water
b. Crown
c. Vajra
d. Bell
e. Name
2. Secret or inner abhisheka / yidam and consort in union
3. Prajna-jnana abhisheka / sexual union