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by Chogyam Trungpa

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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