| Portion of title |
Being human and a Buddha too : Longchenpa's Sevenfold mind training for a sunlit sky |
| Portion of title |
Sevenfold mind training : practical instructions on the foundational practices |
| Portion of title |
Oral commentary on the Sevenfold mind training |
| Series |
House of Adzom
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| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Sevenfold Mind Training / by Longchenpa -- Part II. Prologue by Adzom Paylo Rinpoche, a Commentary on Longchenpa's Sevenfold Mind Training -- Part III. Mind Trainings' Breadth and Depth: Wisdom, Pith Practices, and Dzogchen Perspective: 1. Horizons of Wholeness and the First Mind Training -- 2. Second and Third Mind Trainings: Pretense Dissolved, Reality Revealed -- 3. Bodhicitta: Imagination and Pith Instructions -- 4. Wholeness on the Path: Confidence and Integration in the Middle Mind Trainings (4-6) -- 5. Seventh Mind Training: Wholeness and the Senses -- 6. Awakening and the Turn to Wisdom -- 7. Open Secret, Open Maṇḍala -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- English, Tibetan, and Sanskrit Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. |
| Abstract |
"Anne Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma) shows us how to liberate our buddha nature to be both human and a buddha too. This first volume in the House of Adzom series centers on Longchenpa's seven trainings in bodhicitta, our awakened mind, the ultimate purpose of our practice and training. Anne Klein's original composition masterfully weaves in Adzom Paylo Rinpoche's commentary and Jigme Lingpa's five pith practices and commentary on the trainings, in keeping with Longchenpa's skillful integration of sutra, tantra, and Dzogchen, to resolve our most challenging questions about what awakening involves and how it relates to the truth of our human situation right now. As foundational teachings for Dzogchen practitioners, the seven trainings are framed as contemplations on impermanence, the adventitiousness of happiness and its short duration, the multiple causes of death, the meaninglessness of our worldly activities, reliance on the Buddha's good qualities, the teacher's pith instructions, and ultimately, nonconceptual meditation on bliss and emptiness, clarity and emptiness, and reality itself"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Translation of: Sngon 'gro sems sbyong bdun gyi don khrid. |
| General note | Translated from the Tibetan. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Klein, Anne C., 1947- Being a human and a buddha too First edition. Somerville : Wisdom Publications, 2023 9781614297772 |
| LCCN | 2022059438 |
| ISBN | 9781614297581 |
| ISBN | 1614297584 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
