Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra

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Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2004 - Philosophy - 200 pages
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A Buddhist Classic
A practical manual for both teacher and student alike, Clarifying the Natural State covers the path from mindfulness to complete enlightenment, simply and methodically. Presenting the profound and ultimate instructions of Mahamudra, it embodies the realization of India and Tibet’s greatest masters.

The words of Dakpo Tashi Namgyal are unique. Adorned with plenty of pithy advice out of his personal experience, practitioners are greatly benefited by his instructions on how to remove hindrances and progress further. His methods for practicing Mahamudra are preeminent. This book is indispensable as it focuses exclusively on practice.
-Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Elevate your experience and remain wide open like the sky. Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth. Steady your attention and remain unshakable like a mountain. Brighten your awareness and remain shining like a flame. Clear your thought free wakefulness and remain lucid like a crystal.
- Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
16th Century
  

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A manual for teachers of Mahamudra, this book is the most lucid and succinct introduction to "the great seal" of Buddhist transmission, and a perfect teaching for any qualified student who approaches it with the necessary simplicity and sustained attention. Read full review

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A succinct introduction to Mahamudra meditation. Designed as a teacher's manual and may require the help from a teacher of this meditation lineage. Read full review

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About the author (2004)

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1921--1996) was widely acknowledged as one of the great meditation masters of modern times. Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Schmidt, founders of Rangjung Publications, live in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Albion, CA.

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