The Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning

by Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu

• ISBN13: 9781559392020
• ISBN10: 1559392029
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

This book is the longest of the Ninth Karmapa's three important texts on Mahamudra and one of the most extensive texts on it in the Kagyu tradition.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(22)
First One Tames the Mind with the Practice of Tranquility	23	(10)
Grasping the Mind That Has Not Been Grasped	33	(8)
Stabilizing the Mind after It Has Been Grasped	41	(10)
Bringing Progress to the Mind That Has Been Stabilized	51	(8)
The Practice of Insight, Which Eradicates the Kleshas	59	(8)
More on the First Insight Technique, Looking at the Mind within Stillness	67	(6)
Looking Carefully at the Experience of Not Finding Anything	73	(12)
Within Stillness, Looking, Scrutinizing, Identifying Awareness/Emptiness	85	(6)
Looking at the Mind within the Occurrence of Thought	91	(8)
Looking at the Mind within Appearances	99	(10)
The Actual Meditation on the Relationship between Appearances and Mind	109	(10)
Pointing Out That Emptiness Is Spontaneous Presence	119	(6)
Pointing Out That Spontaneous Presence Is Self-Liberation	125	(8)
Bringing Gradual Improvement to the Practice	133	(6)
Notes	139