Table of Contents
Introduction
The homage
About Jamgön Kongtrul and Pema Nyinje Wangpo
The promise to write
The actual teaching
The three points
1. The practice of the preliminaries
2. The actual practice
The Nine essential points
1. Renunciation
2. Faith
3. Compassion
4. Single-minded application
5. Mindfulness
6. Refuge
7. Devotion
8. Pith instructions
9. Guru Yoga
The Sutrayana and Vajrayana
I.The View
1.Clearing the Doubts
2.Renunciation
3.View, meditation, action & result
4.Reversing the attachment to appearances taken as real
5.Difference between creation & completion stages
6.Equal validity of the two stages
7.Special methods of Tantra/Mantrayana
8.The Two Truths
9.Two Paths to Buddhahood
II. Meditation according to Sutra
III. Meditation according to Tantra
Introduction: The 4 ways of working on emotions
1. Creation
1. How to practice Creation & Completion
2. Basis of purification & what is to be purified
3. The Four methods of purification
1. Womb birth
2. Egg birth
3. Moisture & Heat birth
4. Miraculous birth
4. Detailed explanation of the method
5. Kind of purification and how done
6. Refuge, bodhicitta and dedication
7. The resultant purification
8. Clarity of form
9. To recollect the purities
10. Stability of the Pride of the deity
11. Essence of the creation practice
2. Completion
1. Distinction between Creation & Completion
2. Nature of Dzogrim
3. Delusions
4. Distinction between Namshe & Yeshe
5. Enlightenment
6. Delusion
7. Liberation
8. Auto-liberation of thoughts & emotions
9. Result
IV. Secret, pith instructions
1. The View: Union of appearances & emptiness
2. Meditation: Union of Shiné & Lhaktong
3. Action
1. Quintessence of all practice lineages
2. Practical instructions according to Zhijé