- Śamatha and Vipaśyanā
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Core Teachings in Translation by Buddhist Masters
- Atiśa and the Kadam Tradition: Bodhicitta and the Middle Way
- 1. Blaming Everything on a Single Culprit
- 2. Cutting the Root of Suffering and Equalizing Excitation and Laxity
- 3. A Guide to the Two Realities
- 4. Commentary to Atiśa’s Pith Instructions on the Middle Way
- 5. The Eight-Verse Mind Training
- The Words of Mañjuśrī: Sakya Pith Instructions to Transform One’s Life
- 6. Practical Instructions on Parting from the Four Types of Clinging
- 7. Unmistaken Practical Instructions on Parting from the Four Types of Clinging
- 8. Meditation Guidance on the Mahāyāna Parting from the Four Types of Clinging
- The Words of Mañjuśrī and Vajrapāṇi: View, Meditation, and Conduct as Taught to Tsongkhapa
- 9. Guidance in the View of the Middle Way
- 10. A Shower of Siddhis: Guidance in the View of the Middle Way as a Song of the Four Recollections
- 11. The Synthesis of Practice
- 12. On the Union of Śamatha and Vipaśyanā
- 13. Garland of Supreme Medicinal Nectar: Questions and Answers
- The Words of Avalokiteśvara: Śamatha and Vipaśyanā in the Mahāmudrā Tradition of Mingyur Dorjé and Karma Chakmé
- Śamatha, Vipaśyanā, and Guru Yoga in the Teachings of Düdjom Lingpa and Sera Khandro
- 16. Taking the Aspect of the Mind as the Path
- 17. How to Establish the Ground of Being by Way of the View
- 18. Prerequisites for Practice of the Direct Crossing Over
- Contemporary Masters of Dzokchen and Mahāmudrā: Domang Yangthang Rinpoché
- Contemporary Masters of Dzokchen and Mahāmudrā: Drupön Lama Karma
- Part II. Pith Instructions for Aspiring Contemplatives in the Twenty-First Century
- 1. A Lamp for Dispelling the Five Obscurations: Pith Instructions for Achieving Śamatha in the Dzokchen Tradition
- 2. The Crucial Point of Settling Mental Speech in Its Natural State of Silence by Settling the Respiration in Its Natural Rhythm
- 3. Taking Consciousness as the Path: A Synthesis of Pith Instructions from Our Lineage Gurus
- List of Oral Commentaries
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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