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'''[[Four yogas]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[rnal 'byor bzhi]]'')—four stages of [[attainment]] in the [[meditation practice]] of [[Mahamudra]]. | '''[[Four yogas]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[rnal 'byor bzhi]]'')—four stages of [[attainment]] in the [[meditation practice]] of [[Mahamudra]]. | ||
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#[[one-pointedness]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྩེ་གཅིག་]]}}, ''[[tsé chik]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[rtse gcig]]''), which establishes the [[state of shamatha]] | #[[one-pointedness]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྩེ་གཅིག་]]}}, ''[[tsé chik]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[rtse gcig]]''), which establishes the [[state of shamatha]] | ||
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#[[simplicity]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྤྲོས་བྲལ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[spros bral]]''), which is reached through the clear [[seeing]] of [[vipashyana]] | #[[simplicity]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྤྲོས་བྲལ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[spros bral]]''), which is reached through the clear [[seeing]] of [[vipashyana]] | ||
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#one {{Wiki|taste}} (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རོ་གཅིག་]]}}, ''[[ro chik]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[ro gcig]]''), when [[shamatha and vipashyana]] become one | #one {{Wiki|taste}} (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རོ་གཅིག་]]}}, ''[[ro chik]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[ro gcig]]''), when [[shamatha and vipashyana]] become one | ||
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#[[non-meditation]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྒོམ་མེད་]]}}, ''[[gom mé]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[sgom med]]'') is reached when one goes beyond the [[mind]], and beyond the {{Wiki|concept}} of a [[meditator]] [[meditating]], the level of [[Dzogchen]]. | #[[non-meditation]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྒོམ་མེད་]]}}, ''[[gom mé]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[sgom med]]'') is reached when one goes beyond the [[mind]], and beyond the {{Wiki|concept}} of a [[meditator]] [[meditating]], the level of [[Dzogchen]]. | ||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
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{{Nolinking|*[[Kalu Rinpoche]], ''The Union of [[Mahamudra]] and [[Dzogchen]]'', [[Khyentse Özer]], [[Rigpa]], London, 1990. | {{Nolinking|*[[Kalu Rinpoche]], ''The Union of [[Mahamudra]] and [[Dzogchen]]'', [[Khyentse Özer]], [[Rigpa]], London, 1990. | ||
Latest revision as of 08:33, 25 December 2023
Four yogas (Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་, Wyl. rnal 'byor bzhi)—four stages of attainment in the meditation practice of Mahamudra.
- one-pointedness (Tib. རྩེ་གཅིག་, tsé chik; Wyl. rtse gcig), which establishes the state of shamatha
- simplicity (Tib. སྤྲོས་བྲལ་, Wyl. spros bral), which is reached through the clear seeing of vipashyana
- non-meditation (Tib. སྒོམ་མེད་, gom mé; Wyl. sgom med) is reached when one goes beyond the mind, and beyond the concept of a meditator meditating, the level of Dzogchen.
Further Reading
- Kalu Rinpoche, The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen, Khyentse Özer, Rigpa, London, 1990.
- Herbert V. Guenther, Meditation Differently, The Māhamudrā Approach: The Four Tuning-in Phases, 1992.
