4. Formless abhisheka / transcending reference points
Arising of Two Spontaneous Wisdoms
1. Example wisdom / peyi yeshe / third abhisheka
2. Actual wisdom / töngyi yeshe / fourth abhisheka
Chapter 53. The Challenge of Keeping Samaya
Three Types of Feast Offerings
1. Select offering
2. Confession offering
3. Destruction offering
Three Bases of the Samaya Vow in Anuttarayoga
1. Vajra body samaya / all forms regarded as vajra heruka mandala
2. Vajra speech samaya / all sounds regarded as vajra heruka speech
3. Vajra mind samaya / all thoughts regarded as vajra heruka mind
Applying the Four Karmas
1. Pacifying / vajra family
2. Enriching / ratna family
3. Magnetizing / padma family
4. Destroying / karma family
The Four Basic Vows for Overcoming Lukewarmness
1. Murdering
2. Lying
3. Stealing
4. Sexual intercourse
Chapter 54. The Divisions of Anuttarayoga
The Four Divisions of Anuttarayoga
1. Mother tantra (passion tantra) / ma-gyü / Chakrasamvara, Mahamaya, Hevajra
2. Father tantra (aggression tantra) / pha-gyü / Guhyasamaja
3. Nondual tantra (ignorance tantra) / nyi-me gyü / Kalachakra
4. None-higher tantra / la-me gyü / First three combined together
Chapter 55. Manifesting Mahamudra
Two Factors of Mahamudra That Transform One’s State of Mind
1. Devotion
2. Practice
Three Roots of Mahamudra Experience
1. Gurus / the source of blessings
2. Yidams / the source of magical power
3. Dharmapalas / the source of the fulfillment of all actions
Chapter 56. Ground Mahamudra: Understanding Things as They Are
Vajrayana Approaches to the Path
1. Regarding the ground as path
2. Regarding fruition as path
Three Levels of Mahamudra
1. Ground mahamudra
2. Path mahamudra
3. Fruition mahamudra
Two Aspects of the Ground of Possibilities
1. Mind itself
2. Mind’s perceptions
Three Ways of Cultivating the Ordinary State
1. Not preparing too much / cutting off preconceptions of the past
2. Not expecting a greater flash / cutting off preconceptions of the future
3. Resting the mind / cutting off preconceptions of the present
Chapter 57. Path Mahamudra: The Experience of Meditation
The Four Yogas of Mahamudra / Naljor Shirim
1. One-pointedness / tsechik
Three Levels
a. Lesser / joy and clarity
b. Medium / naturalness
c. Greater / luminosity
2. Simplicity / trödral
Three Levels
a. Lesser / realizing that arising, ceasing, and dwelling are empty
b. Medium / freedom from fixation on appearance or emptiness
c. Greater / resolving the complexity of all dharmas
Three Vajra Practices Connected with the First Two Yogas
a. Vajra body / seed syllable
b. Vajra speech / mantra
c. Vajra mind / one mandala
3. One taste / rochik
Three Levels
a. Lesser / all dharmas are dissolved into one taste
b. Medium / appearance and mind become indistinguishable
c. Greater / breakthrough of wisdom
4. Nonmeditation / gom-me
Three Levels
a. Lesser / meditator and meditation used up
b. Medium / habits and beliefs cleared away
c. Greater / mother and child luminosities dissolve together
Three Types of Energy in Tantric Hatha Yoga
1. Prana / breath
2. Nadi / channels
3. Bindu / dot or particle
The Seeds of Duality
1. Unborn “I” / E
2. Unceasing “other” / VAM
Chapter 58. Fruition Mahamudra: Realizing One’s Mind as Buddha
PART TWELVE. THE TANTRIC JOURNEY: HIGHER TANTRA
Mahayoga: The Yana of Great Union
Chapter 59. Mahayoga: The Dawning of the Wisdom of Self-Existence
Two Types of Absolute Truth / Töndam
1. Conditional töndam
2. Unconditional töndam
Two Kinds of Negation
1. Complete / “no”
2. Incomplete / “not”
Two Types of Relative Truth / Kündzop
1. Pure kündzop
2. Confused kündzop
Chapter 60. Mahayoga: Meditation and the Mandala Principle
Five Elements as Five Female Buddhas
1. Earth / ratna
2. Wind / karma
3. Fire / padma
4. Water / vajra
5. Space / buddha
Five Skandhas as Five Male Buddhas
1. Form / buddha
2. Feeling / ratna
3. Perception / padma
4. Formations / karma
5. Consciousness / vajra
Two Types of Mahayoga Practice
1. Tantra / practice
a. Gyü-de / tantric practice
b. Drub-de / practice
2. Nopika / essential practice
a. Sota nopika / solitary practice
b. Mandala nopika / group practice
The Eight Mandalas of Mahayoga
1. Mandala of self-existence / rangshin gyi kyilkhor
2. Mandala of compassion / lhündrup kyi kyilkhor
Twofold Purity
a. Eternal purity
b. Apparent purity
3. Mandala of form / sugnyen gyi kyilkhor
4. Mandala of extra form / lhak-pe sugnyen gyi kyilkhor
5. Mandala of meditation / tingdzin gyi kyilkhor
6. Mandala of extra meditation / lhak-pe tingdzin gyi kyilkhor
7. Mandala of bodhichitta / changsem kyi kyilkhor
8. Mandala of vajra sangha / tsokchog gi kyilkhor
Chapter 61. Mahayoga: The Eight Logos
The Eight Logos / Druppa Kagye
1. Yangdak / the completely pure
2. Jampal or Yamantaka / the conqueror of the Lord of Death
The Four Wheels
a. Secret wheel / mind
b. Wheel of existence / naval
c. Wheel of cutting / arms and hands
d. Wheel of miracle or emanation / feet and legs
3. Hayagriva / the subjugator of Rudra
The Three Neighs of a Horse
a. Waking the world to the fact that samsara and nirvana are unoriginated
b. Offering the whole world (the animate and inanimate world)
c. Demanding obedience
4. Chemchok / the supreme heruka
Five Ingredients Used to Create Amrita
a. Flesh / padma family
b. Blood / karma family
c. Urine / vajra family
d. Feces / buddha family
e. Semen / ratna family
5. Dorje Phurba or Vajrakilaya / the dagger wielder
The Four Penetrations
a. Wisdom dagger
b. Bodhichitta dagger
c. Limitless compassion dagger
d. Physical dagger
6. Mamo / the mother principle
7. Chötö / offering and praise to the worldly deities
Three Types of National Ego
a. Life force of dwelling place
b. Life force of clarity
c. Life force of name
8. Trag-ngak / wrathful mantra / fearlessness
Eight Logos Divided into Higher and Lower
1. Higher logos / 1–5 / fundamentality
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2. Lower logos / 6–8 / pragmatic / fringe
Chapter 62. Mahayoga: Nondual Practice
Anuyoga: The Yana of Passion
Chapter 63. Anuyoga: Joining Space and Wisdom
Two Principles Emphasized
1. Unbornness and intelligence
2. Space and wisdom
Chapter 64. Anuyoga: Empowerment
Reexperiencing Your World
1. Going through the samsaric realms
2. Going through the stages of the path (hinayana, mahayana, vajrayana)
Going through the first four paths
a. Accumulation
b. Unification
c. Seeing
d. Meditation
3. The attainment of a glimpse of maha ati and the fifth path
e. No more learning
One Hundred Deities of Anuyoga
1. Fifty-eight wrathful deities
2. Forty-two peaceful deities
Three Types of Confirmations
1. Great confirmation
2. Great protection
3. Great energy
Three Mandalas of Anuyoga
1. The mandala of isness / ye chi-shin-pe kyilkhor / Samantabhadri
2. The mandala of self-existence / lhündrup kyi kyilkhor / Samantabhadra
3. The mandala of the awakened state of mind / changsem kyi kyilkhor / son of Samantabhadri and Samantabhadra / Son of Great Joy
Chapter 65. Anuyoga: Practice
Two Attainments of Anuyoga
1. Fulfilling the desires of the yogi through devotion and fearlessness
2. Revelation of the great family
The Three Yogas
1. Yoga of seed
2. Yoga of condition
3. Yoga of result
Chapter 66. Anuyoga: No Boundaries
Atiyoga: The Great Completion
Chapter 67. Atiyoga: Continuous Awake
Two Ways to Develop Your Attitude
1. Changing your basic existence / samsara
2. Not changing your basic existence / nirvana
Two Types of Hierarchy
1. Sacred
2. Ordinary
Chapter 68. Atiyoga: Primordial Enlightenment
Three Qualities for Dealing with Reality
1. Naturalness
2. Great joy
3. Simplicity
Chapter 69. Atiyoga: Fathomless Mind
Chapter 70. Atiyoga: Mind, Space, and Instruction
Three Sections of Maha Ati Yana
1. The category of mind / sem-de
a. Energy and play
b. Stepping over the pass
i. Dharmakaya stepping over
ii. Sambhogakaya stepping over
iii. Nirmanakaya stepping over
c. Seven categories of sem-de
i. Stepping over without effort / betsöl mepar ladawa
ii. Stepping over misunderstandings and obstacles / göl drip mepar ladawa
iii. The falling apart of your home / tentsik khungdip
iv. Not being extreme about proportions or directions / gya-che chog-lhung mepa
v. Transcending attachment to biased philosophical beliefs / chogdzin truptha ledepa
vi. Transcending attachment to intellect and to nonintellectual fixations and bias / lodral chogdzin ledepa
vii. Proclaiming that one’s mind is in a certain direction / semchok yintu mawa
2 . The category of space / long-de Two Approaches to Space
a. Ying
b. Long
Four Types of Space
a. Black space / long nakpo gyu mepa
b. Multicolored space / long trawu natsok rangshar gyen
c. White space / long karpo
d. Complete absorption space / long rabjam
3. The category of instruction / men-ngag gi de
Three Types of Men-ngag Gi De
a. Randomness / khathor
b. Legend or tale / khatam
c. Self-proclaiming / gyü rangshungdu tenpa
Chapter 71. Atiyoga: Meditation Practices
Two Categories of Atiyoga Practice
1. Trekchö / cutting through
Three Meditation Guidelines
a. Resting one’s mind in dharmadhatu / sem-de
b. Resting effortlessly / long-de
c. Resting without accepting or rejecting / men-ngag gi de
2. Thögal / transcending the forehead or peak
Triple-Space Practice
a. Dharmakaya / vastness of space
b. Sambhogakaya / richness of space
c. Nirmanakaya / pragmatic aspect of space
Secret Mandala and the Three Torches
a. The self-existing torch
b. The torch of emptiness
c. The torch of water
Chapter 72. Atiyoga: Heightened Experience
Four Stages of Heightening
1. Seeing dharmata as real / chönyi ngönsum
2. Increasing the nyam / nyam kongphel
3. Insight reaching its full measure / rikpa tsephep
4. Dharmata being all used up / chönyi sesa
Two Types of Confidence
1. Nirvanic confidence / yargyi sangthal
2. Samsaric confidence / margyi sangthal
Chapter 73. Atiyoga: Everything and Nothing
Three Parts of Maha Ati
1. View
a. Spotting a thief
b. Adding more firewood to the fire
c. Winning victory on the battlefield
2. Practice
a. Entering a rich man’s treasury
b. Building a concrete wall
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