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Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra
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
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
199 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2004
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October 2, 2007
The best for those interested in Mahamudra
July 13, 2019
This book provides excellent instructions to those that are beginners or those who want to deepen their practice of Mahamudra meditation. It provides succinct tools for working with distractions. It also instructs as though you are with one of the great masters, impressing upon the reader the importance of consistency and devotion.
February 24, 2021
Fantastic.
May 2, 2023
To be re-read repeatedly along the practice development. Indispensable.
October 18, 2021
I've read it twice, but hopefully I'll be able to read it 2 or 3 times more. It has a perfect length (around 100 pages - the book is twice as long, but half of it is in Tibetan), so it's concise but relatively detailed and easy to read and re-read.
It's one of my favorite Mahamudra books, thus far. For an even shorter exposition, check "Mahamudra: dispelling the darkness of ignorance" by the 9th Karmapa, and "Lamp of Mahamudra" by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol (around 100 pages too).
More extensive expositions can be found in this very author's "Moonbeams of Mahamudra" (which includes the 9th Karmapa text) and in Khamtrul Rinpoche's "Royal Seal of Mahamudra, vol. I."
It's one of my favorite Mahamudra books, thus far. For an even shorter exposition, check "Mahamudra: dispelling the darkness of ignorance" by the 9th Karmapa, and "Lamp of Mahamudra" by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol (around 100 pages too).
More extensive expositions can be found in this very author's "Moonbeams of Mahamudra" (which includes the 9th Karmapa text) and in Khamtrul Rinpoche's "Royal Seal of Mahamudra, vol. I."
March 13, 2011
A succinct introduction to Mahamudra meditation. Designed as a teacher's manual and may require the help from a teacher of this meditation lineage.
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