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Stilling the Mind

7 – Pit Falls
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  • Stilling the Mind
    • Cover Page
    • Title Page
    • Table of Contents
    • Preface
    • 1 - Introduction
      • Düdjom Lingpa and The Vajra Essence
      • The Vision of Düdjom Lingpa
      • Teacher and Assembly in Dialogue
    • 2 - The Questions of Faculty of Wisdom
      • The Appearance of Teachers
    • 3 - The Questions of Great Boundless Emptiness
      • The Swift Path—The Great Perfection
      • Qualifications of a student of The Great Perfection
      • Difficulties inherent in other vehicles
      • The Time to practice Vajrayana
      • Bodhichitta
    • 4 - Taking the mind as the path
      • The Primacy of Mind
      • The Emptiness of Mind
      • Mind’s Essential Nature
      • The Source of Appearances
      • The Fruits of Practice
    • 5 - The Explicit Instructions
      • Psychophysical Obstructions
      • Settling the mind in its natural state
      • Nyam—Signs of Meditative Experience
      • Signs of Progress
      • Nyam emanating from different psychophysical constitutions
      • Accomplishing the practice
    • 6 - Accomplishing Shamatha
    • 7 - Pit Falls
      • Hazards in the later stages of shamatha practice
      • The Role and Significance of Shamatha
      • Experiencing the substrate consciousness
      • Deeper Possibilities of shamatha practice
    • Notes
    • Glossary
    • About the author
    • Copyright Page

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B. Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel

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