Mind at Ease: Self-Liberation through Mahamudra Meditation

286 Pages·2004·16.311 MB·English

by  Traleg Kyabgon

Mind at Ease
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MAHAMUDRA
MEDITATION
TRALEG KYABGON
Foreword by Khenchen Thrangu
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SHAMBHALA
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2004
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©2003 by Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
Published by a"angement with Lothian Books, Australia.
Excerpts from The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa by Carma C. C. Chang, © 1962
by the Oriental Studies Foundation. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Citadel
Press/!<ensington Publishing Corp. www.kensingtonbooks.com. Excerpts from Cloudless Sky:
The Mahamudra Path of the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu School by the Third ]amgon Kongtrul,
© 1992· by Rigpe Dorje Foundation, and from The Rain of Wisdom, translated by the Nalanda
Translation Committee,© 1980 by Chiigyam Trungpa, reprinted by amangement with Shambhala
Publications, Inc., Boston, www.shambhala.com. Quotations from Mahamudra:The Quintessence
of Mind and Meditation (Shambhala, 1986), second edition, Mahamudra:The Moonlight,
The Quintessence of Mind and Meditation, Manjushri Publications, Santa Fe, 2004,
ISBN: <>-9725613-o-7, are used with the pernussion of the translator,
Lobsang P. Lhalungpa, and Manjushri Publications, P.O. Box 32403, Santa Fe,
New Mexico 87594-~403, e-mail: info @ manjushripublications.org.
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Kyabgon, Traleg, 1955-
Mind at ease: self-liberation through Mahamudra meditation/
Traleg Kyabgon.-ut Shambhala Ed.
p. em.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-590]0-156-o (Pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Mahiimudrii (Tantric rite) 2. Spirituallife-Bka'-rgyud-pa·
(Sect) I. Title
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I would like to dedicate this book to the continuity and
the propagation of the great Dagpo Kagyu lineage.

C 0 NT E ·NT S
FOREWORD by Khenchen Thrangu xi
PREFACE xiii
INTRODUCTION XV
PART ONE
FUNDAMENTALS
1 What Is MahamudTA? 3
2 The Importance of Correct View 22
3 The Spiritual Path 32
4 Deluded Mind, Enlightened Mind 51
5 The Four Preliminaries 6o
6 The Four Immeasurables 92
PART TWO
GROUND MAHAMUDRA
7 Buddha-Nature 121
viii CONTBNTS
PART THREE
PATH MAHAMUDRA
8 Tranquillity Meditation 143
9 Insight Meditation 168
PART FOUR
FRUITION· MAHAMUDRA
10 The Four Yogas of Mahamudra 209
11 On the Spiritual journey 225
APPENDIX: "PRECIOUS SUN" 229
NOTES 236
GLOSSARY 239
RECOMMENDED READING 247
TRALEG KYABGON'S CENTERS 250
INDEX 251