Progressive Great Perfection
pp. 86-87 postures
animal (figurative) |
human practitioner |
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animal |
posture of animal |
posture of body |
posture: arms |
posture: other |
benefit |
lion |
sitting |
squatting; front of feet on floor, heels raised |
hands on ground, between legs |
anus closed (constricted) |
[internal] visions |
elephant |
lying down |
squatting; entire soles on floor |
arms supporting chin |
external visions |
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r.s.i [?for r.ks.a "bear"] |
squatting; entire soles on floor |
arms around knees |
head bent back |
warmth; stop thought |
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duck |
moving sideways |
lying on right side |
right arm supporting chin |
extra-ordinary visions |
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antelope |
legs flexed |
hands on back of neck |
head bent back |
pp. 90-91 the 4 "special channels" in body
# |
channel |
location |
function |
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1st |
"great golden channel" |
brain |
[internal] visions |
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2nd |
"threads of white silk" |
over exterior of brain to: |
right eye |
external visions |
crown of head |
"great thoughtless awareness" |
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3rd |
"fine twisted thread" |
through the 4 cakra-s to left eye |
"natural clear lights" |
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4th |
"crystal tube" |
"the [3rd?] eye" |
"dissolving of all the visions" |
pp. 91-94 the 4 sgron-ma ("lamps")
"lamp of __" |
vision by adept |
water |
dark-blue, "between the mountains and the sky" (p. 92, fn. 19) |
the empty thig-le (indu "drop", p. 90, fn. 17) |
lights of the heart[-drops] (not including dark-blue, p. 92, fn. 20), but instead: "green, red, yellow, white and smoke-colored" |
pure emptiness |
"more clear" (p. 93): "Clarity appears like pearls and golden threads" (p. 94) |
self-wisdom |
"very bright and ... naked" (p. 93, fn. 22) |
p. 98 developmental stages of stability of visions
# |
simile |
1st |
"hawk flying through the sky" |
2nd |
"deer running on the mountains" |
3rd |
s`aran.a "(a slow-moving mythological animal)" [?sloth] |
4th |
"honey bees taking pollen from the flowers" |
final |
"big as the universe" |
p. 98 techniques for changing the gazes
if the vision is __ |
then look to the __ |
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shape |
color |
direction |
semi-circle |
white |
upward |
? |
red |
downward |
square |
yellow |
right |
round |
green |
left |
triangular |
blue |
striaght ahead |
pp. 109-110 "to Fix as with Nails the Three Receipts"
doorway |
p. 109 simile |
comportment |
body |
"tortoise put on a plate" |
p. 109 "one disregards one's appearance" |
speech |
"drumming that does not cease" |
p. 110 "the practitioner's speech is like that of a madman" |
mind |
"bird caught in a tether trap" |
p. 110 "without any planning" {cf. "take no thought for the morrow"} |
pp. 110-111 "Signs of Liberation"
p. 110 1st sign: "time of completion" |
"sweet ... to his or her voice" |
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p. 111 2nd sign: "everything is won" |
body |
"like a corpse. Whatever she or she eats ... he or she does not care" |
thoughts |
"without fear" |
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speech |
"like echoes in the rocks; whatever others say he or she just repeats" {cf. compulsive repetitions of others' words under influence of Amanita muscaria} |
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mind |
"like a mist that disappears" |
pp. 111-112 degree of achievement as manifest in attitude toward dreams
degree |
dream |
result after death |
1st (best) |
p. 111 "stops all dream vision ... The dreams are liberated into the clear light." |
p. 112 "he or she will take a rainbow body" |
2nd (next-to-best) |
p. 112 "recognizes the dream visions as dream and controls them" |
"liberation will be achieved during the intermediate state." |
3rd |
"always has good dreams." |
"He or she will be reborn in the magically emanated realms." |
pp. 112-113 tetrads
# |
p. 112 the 4 satisfactions |
pp. 112-113 the 4 servants = the 4 wisdoms |
1st |
"neither happy nor sad" |
"to distinguish clearly" |
2nd |
"neither wishes nor doubts" |
"to know how things are related" |
3rd |
"not fear" lower realms (niraya-s) |
"how things are liberated ... into the natural state" |
4th |
"never roam in" samsara |
"the ultimate nature of things ... the pure natural state" |
pp. 118-119 similes for ways of dying
p. |
# |
"like a __" |
mode |
118 |
1st |
young child |
"does not know whether it wants to be alive or die" |
2nd |
hound |
"to go away ... to be undisturbed" |
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119 |
3rd |
king |
"all the relatives surround him" |
4th |
lion |
"The mind is transferred through ... the unification of clear light." |
pp. 120-121 numerics
p. |
numeric |
significance |
120 |
21 |
HIK "can eject the mind" out through the crown of the head (brahma-randhra) for "transference of consciousness" |
121 |
4 |
"external energies" |
5 |
"internal descriptions of sky" & "different secret energies" |
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20 |
"lifting winds which are gradually dissolved" |
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3 |
"drops inside the heart" |
p. 121 dissolving of the bodily elements during process of dying
element dissolving itself |
effect of that dissolution |
earth |
"unable to eat or stand up or move." |
water |
"cannot keep water and it flows from the mouth, nose and eyes." |
fire |
"begins to get cold starting from the feet and moving to the centre." |
wind |
"makes a sound automatically and the limbs move involuntarily." |
[akas`a] |
"the eyes roll up" |
pp. 121-124 procreational-conception drops & their colors at death, etc.
pp. 121-122 "the drop of semen received from the father comes down from the crown to the heart" |
p. 122 "The dying person sees first a bright white light and |
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p. 122 "the drop of blood received from the mother comes up from the solar plexus to the heart" |
then a bright red light. When the two drops meet in the centre of the heart |
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"difficult" |
everything goes dark ... but |
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bon n~id "bon emptiness" |
afterwards the person awakens with a very clear awareness." |
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p. 123 'United with the Clear Light' |
p. 123 "rainbows shining in the sky. And very loud sounds ... like echoes ..., like dragons roaring" |
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'the Awareness is Entered into the Light' |
"Inside the heart the clear light shines" |
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'the Light Dissolved into Awareness' |
"rays coming from one's chest" |
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'Unification Dissolves into Wisdom' |
pp. 123-124 "fine light rays arise into the sky." |
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p. 124 'Visions of the Four Wisdoms United' |
p. 124 "mirrors ... ringed with the five colours. On top of these ... there are many colored lights around like a peacock's feather." |
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'Vision of the Base' |
"wrathful deities appear complete with their retinues. All the peaceful deities with their retinues are completed" |
pp. 125-126 the 8 visions
p. |
ord. |
"Vision of __" |
125 |
1st |
Compassion |
2nd |
Light |
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3rd |
the Kaya-s |
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4th |
Wisdom |
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126 |
5th |
Unification |
6th |
Unending Liberation |
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7th |
the Impure |
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8th |
the Pure |
p. 129 similes of the 3 teachings
ord. |
simile |
1st |
"the son sees his mother" |
2nd |
"a golden spoon" |
3rd |
"an arrow shot by a Hero" |
p. 131 moments of the stages
stage |
moments |
1st |
3 |
2nd |
5 |
3rd |
21 |
p. 132 >pho-ba, in order to achieve rebirth in specific divine realms
direction |
color |
sTon-pa |
realm |
east |
white |
'Self-Originated Clear' |
'Clear Happiest' |
north |
green |
dGel Lha Gar Phyug |
'Perfection of Good Actions' |
west |
red |
Bye Brag dNos Med |
'Heaped Flowers' |
south |
blue |
dGa> Ba Don Grub |
'Excellent Brilliant Place' |
centre |
? |
>od dKar gNas >dzin |
'Perfection Existeth' |
in the form of the syllable AS, "your mind is ejected like a shooting star and" dissolveth into the "heart" of the sTon-pa "of this realm"
Lopon Tenzin Namdak (tr.): Heart Drops of Dharmakaya. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca (NY), 1993.