Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos

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In this Buddhist book, you will encounter rare teachings on how to turn each phase of life into a chance to experience an uncontrived and natural liberation. In life and in death, in meditation and in sleep, every transitional stage of consciousness, or bardo, provides an opportunity to overcome limitations, frustrations, and fears. Through the practical instructions in this book, you will learn how to enter into a profound and spontaneous state of freedom in all your ...
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In this Buddhist book, you will encounter rare teachings on how to turn each phase of life into a chance to experience an uncontrived and natural liberation. In life and in death, in meditation and in sleep, every transitional stage of consciousness, or bardo, provides an opportunity to overcome limitations, frustrations, and fears. Through the practical instructions in this book, you will learn how to enter into a profound and spontaneous state of freedom in all your activities.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780861711314
  • Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
  • Publication date: 6/28/1998
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 625,325
  • Product dimensions: 5.44 (w) x 8.39 (h) x 1.06 (d)

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface
Introduction: Motivation 3
1 Preliminary Practices for Subduing Your Own Mind-stream 13
2 The Natural Liberation of the Mind-itself: The Four-Session Yoga of Spiritual Activity of the Secret Mantra Vajrayana 53
3 The Natural Liberation of the Foundation: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Living 83
4 The Natural Liberation of Confusion: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Dreaming 141
5 The Natural Liberation of Awareness: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Meditative Stabilization 169
6 The Natural Liberation of Mindfulness of Transference: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Dying 195
7 The Natural Liberation of Seeing: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Reality-itself 235
8 The Natural Liberation of Becoming: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Becoming 257
9 Three Prayers Concerning the Transitional Processes 277
10 The Natural Liberation of the Vast Expanse of the Three Embodiments: A Prayer of the Natural Liberation through Contemplating the Peaceful and Wrathful 299
11 The Natural Liberation of the Three Poisons without Rejecting Them: A Guru Yoga Prayer to the Three Embodiments 305
Epilogue 309
Notes 311
Glossary 317
Bibliography 325
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