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Foreword by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Tibetan
Foreword by Venerable Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
English
Editors’Note
Introduction: Gambling with the Lord of Death
1. T HE M OMENT OF T RUTH
The Bardo Teachings
What Is Bardo?
Conceptual and Essence Bardos
The Fork in the Road
Trapped in Time
Neither Here nor There
Day-to-day Business
Overwhelming Emotions
Message from the Lineage
Classifications of the Bardos
Sources of the Bardo Teachings
The Six Root Verses of the Six Bardos
2. P URE D ELUSION: T HE N ATURAL B ARDO OF T HIS L IFE
The Dance of Appearances
Pure and Impure Appearances
Embodied Mind
The Three Stages of the Path
The Stage of Study
The Stage of Contemplation
Practices for the Stage of Contemplation
Befriending Intense Emotions
The Stage of Meditation
Foundational Practices: Training and Purification
Settling the Mind: The Three Postures
The Actual Practice: Padmasambhava’s Instructions for Shamatha
Shamatha with External Object
Shamatha with White Bindu Visualization
Shamatha with Red Bindu Visualization
Shamatha without Object
Deity Yoga
Setting a Specific Intention for Our Practice
For Only So Long
3. W AKING THE D REAMER: T HE B ARDO OF D REAM
Appearance-Emptiness
Impure and Pure Dreams
Entering the Dream State
Continuation of Confusion
Waking Up in the Dream
Training in the Illusory Body
Training in Dream Yoga
Training in Luminosity Yoga
Fruition of Training
Dreams and Dreamers
Looking at the Dream
Looking at the Dreamer
Looking at the Time Span
Lighting a Torch in the Darkness
4. M ASTERING T HE M IND: T HE B ARDO OF M EDITATION
Meditation as Bardo
Vipashyana
Domesticating Wild Mind
Stages of Training in Selflessness
Pointing-out Mind’s Nature
Looking Directly at Mind
Gaining Certainty in Liberation
Three Words That Strike the Vital Point
Dzogchen’s Four Great Modes of Liberation
Taking the Message of Liberation to Heart
Accepting and Rejecting
Self existing Wisdom
Letting Go of Freedom
The Nature of All
Guarding Awareness
Path of Skillful Means
Connecting the Bardos of Life and Death
5. E VAPORATING R EALITY: T HE P AINFUL B ARDO OF D YING
Attachment to This Life
Three Capacities of Practitioners
Preparing For Death
Dissolving of the Elements
Coarse and Subtle Bodies
The Coarse Dissolution Process
The Subtle Dissolution Process
The Stages of Luminosity
Practices For Dying
Path of Devotion
Recognizing a Last Chance
The Practice of Phowa
Methods of Transformation
Sudden Death
All Practices Are Phowa
Planning our Last Thought
Looking Ahead
Aiming for the Highest
6. E GOLESS J OURNEY: T HE L UMINOUS B ARDO OF D HARMATA
Exploring New Experiences
Dharmakaya Luminosity: The Luminosity of No Appearance
Ground Luminosity: The Wisdom of Dharmata
Meeting of Mother and Child Luminosities
Searching for Home
Auspicious Causes and Conditions
Generating Samadhi Mind
Sambhogakaya Luminosity: The Luminosity of Appearance
Spontaneously Arising Luminosity
The Four Wisdom Lights
The Light of Buddha Activity
Visions of Spontaneous Presence
Taking the Bardo of Dharmata onto the Path
Looking at the Nature of Mind
Visualization of the Hundred Deities
Taking Light as the Path
Taking Sound as the Path
Taking Pain and Sickness as the Path
Taking Delight and Misery as the Path
Taking Emotions as the Path
Knowing the Territory
The Two Kay as of the Bardo of Dharmata
Over in an Instant
Arriving at the Next Destination
7. T O B E OR N OT T O B E: T HE K ARMIC B ARDO OF B ECOMING
Nirmanakaya Luminosity
Unceasing Appearances
Reemergence of Confusion
The Miraculous Power of Karmic Mind
Creating Auspicious Connections
Dawning of the Six Realms
Becoming: Qualities of the Six Realms
Practices for Becoming
Creation Stage Practices
Completion Stage Practices
Transforming Through Renunciation
Plan A and Plan B
Vajrayana View of Practice
View of Creation Stage
View of Completion Stage
Mind Beyond Death
Editors’Acknowledgments
Appendix I: The Sutra on Wisdom for the Time of Death
Tibetan
English
Appendix II: Vajra Songs of Realization
All These Forms
The Eight Cases of Basic Goodness Not To Be Shunned
Guru Rinpoche Prayer
Seven Delights
Dedication
The Six Bardos by Rechungpa
Appendix III: Two Poems by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
A Reminder To Myself
Heaven
Appendix IV: Looking Back: The Purpose of Ngondro
The Vajrayana Roller Coaster
Purpose of Ngondro
The Four Tantra Ngondro Practices
An Important Point
Appendix V: The Stages of Dissolution
Appendix VI: The Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities
Notes
Glossary
Suggested Reading
Traditional Texts
Contemporary Commentaries
Audio and Video Tapes
Nalandabodhi Centers
Illustration Credits
Index
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