Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind
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Longchenpa’s classic Buddhist manual for attaining liberation teaches us how to familiarize ourselves with our most basic nature—the clear, pristine, and aware mind. Written in the fourteenth century, this text is the first volume of Longchenpa’s Trilogy of Rest, a work of the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition. This profound and comprehensive presentation of the Buddhist view and path combines the scholastic expository method with direct pith instructions designed for yogi practitioners.
This first part of the Trilogy of Rest sets the foundation for the following two volumes: Finding Rest in Meditation, which focuses on Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice, and Finding Rest in Illusion, which focuses on post-meditation yogic conduct. The Padmakara Translation Group has provided us with a clear and fluid new translation to Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind along with selections from its autocommentary, The Great Chariot, which will serve as a genuine aid to study and meditation.
Here, we find essential instructions on the need to turn away from materialism, how to find a qualified guide, how to develop boundless compassion for all beings, along with the view of tantra and associated meditation techniques. The work culminates with pointing out the result of practice as presented from the Dzogchen perspective, providing us with all the tools necessary to traverse the Tibetan Buddhist path of finding rest. Shambhala Publications
Citation
Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind. Volume 1 of The Trilogy of Rest. By Longchenpa (klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer). Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.
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Table of contents
- Foreword by Alak Zenkar Rinpochexiii
- Foreword by Jigme Khyentse Rinpochexv
- Translators' Introductionxix
- Part One: Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind
- Prologue3
- The Freedoms and Advantages of Human Birth So Hard to Find5
- 2. Impermanence11
- 3. The Sufferings of Saṃsāra17
- 4. The Karmic Law of Cause and Effect35
- 5. The Spiritual Master51
- 6. Refuge67
- 7. The Four Unbounded Attitudes75
- 8. Cultivating the Attitude of Mind Oriented toward Enlightenment85
- 9. The Generation and Perfection Stages and Their Union103
- 10. The View That Dwells in Neither of the Two Extremes, the Wisdom whereby the Nature of the Ground Is Realized115
- 11. The Path: Stainless Meditative Concentration127
- 12. The Three Aspects of Meditative Concentration143
- 13. The Great, Spontaneously Present Result151
- Conclusion163
- Part Two: Excerpts from.The Great Chariot
- The Mind Is the Root of All Phenomena167
- Mind, Intellect, and Consciousness171
- The Eight Consciousnesses as the Basis of Delusion175
- The Three Natures179
- The Universal Ground191
- The Universal Ground, the Eight Consciousnesses, and the State of Sleep201
- The Tathāgatagarbha205
- Refuge243
- The Three Concentrations of the Generation Stage253
- The Simple Practice of the Generation and Perfection Stages257
- The Mind and the Objects That Appear to It261
- The Omniscient Longchenpa Speaks about His Realization265
- Notes269
- Texts Cited in The Great Chariot301
- Bibliography305
- The Padmakara Translation Group Translations into English309
- Index311
Interconnections
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Finding Comfort and Ease in the Nature of Mind (Tib. སེམས་ཉིད་ངལ་གསོ་, Semnyi Ngalso, Wyl. sems nyid ngal gso) is the first volume of Longchenpa's Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease (Ngal gso skor gsum), a work within the Dzogchen tradition that covers both sūtra and tantra. It is a profound and comprehensive presentation of the Buddhist view and path that combines a scholastic expository method with direct pith instructions designed for serious practitioners. It can be considered to be a lamrim text in the Nyingma lineage, presenting the entire scope of the Buddhist view combined with pith instructions for pointing out the nature of one's mind. (Source: Rigpa Wiki)
1 Partial translation of
In his Relaxation in the Nature of Mind and its auto-commentary the Great Chariot, Longchenpa deals with buddha-nature in the opening verse while paying homage to the ultimate truth, in chapter 9 while discussing the generation-stage- and completion-stage practices, and in chapter 10 on the topic of wisdom which comprehends the ground reality free from the two extremes. He presents buddha-nature as the ground maṇḍala, which forms the basis of temporary confusion, while at the same time being the uncontrived, unborn, unchanging nature of the mind to be realized on the path. Ordinary beings do not perceive this buddha-nature, but bodhisattvas on the stages see it partially and the buddhas see it fully. Longchenpa blends the sūtra presentation of buddha-nature with the esoteric exposition of the spontaneous primordial ground in the tantras. He uses terms such as essence, element, spiritual gene, innate mind, pristine wisdom, vajra mind, primordial ground, the ultimate, ground gnosis, sphere of reality, Middle Way, nondual truth, thatness, Perfection of Wisdom, etc., to refer to the same luminous nature of mind which is buddha-nature.
