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Another fun book to share

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Seven discussions to help to bring certainty in practice according to Nyingmapa tradition:

According to which of the two negations do you explain the view?
Do arhats realize both types of selflessness?
Does meditation involve grasping at an object?
Should we do analytical meditation or settling meditation?
Which of the two truths is most important?
What is the common object of disparate perceptions?
Does Madhyamaka have a position or not?

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Hi Bruce,

What is the book? I don't see a link.
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jake wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2017 5:16 pm Hi Bruce,

What is the book? I don't see a link.
I am not sure why it does show. let me try again. probably you want to copy the link by delete a few space between Http. Hope this will work

h ttps://www.amazon.com/Miphams-Beacon-Certainty ... 0861711572
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Anyen Rinpoche wrote a readable commentary on this text as well.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
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jake wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2017 5:16 pm Hi Bruce,

What is the book? I don't see a link.
"Mipam's Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection: Illuminating the View of Dzochen, the Great Perfection (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism)" by John Pettit with a foreword by HH Renor Rinpoche

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"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
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I have both the Beacon and Anyen Rinpoche's book about it, Journey to Certainty. So far, I've only looked at the first topic. I plan to resume my study of those texts, but have plenty else on my plate. I would be curious to hear how others have found them helpful.

Meanwhile, Padmakara's new translation of Longchenpa's Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: Trilogy of Rest, Volume 1 is due out tomorrow. My copy should arrive in the mail that day, so that's going to top my reading list for a while.
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