The Great Secret of Mind

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of death, we are released in the bardo
1.23 The creative and fulfillment phases are complete and perfect in the space
of basic empty presence
1.24 Why all beings are continuously bound in samsara
1.25 Delusion dissolves when we look at the essence of mind
1.26 The advantage of perceiving all things as mere conceptual labels
1.27 When pure presence is spontaneously recognized, its veils naturally
dissolve
1.28 Creativity is necessarily released in pure presence
1.29 Samsara never existed except as mere creative visions
1.30 In unconditioned pure presence, all buddha-potential is spontaneously
manifest
1.31 When we abide in unchangeable mind, there is enormous instant
advantage
1.32 Uncontrolled emotion effects severe ecological damage
1.33 The Dzogchen process necessarily and naturally preserves the
environment
1.34 Illustrating that all things arise out of the basis of mind
1.35 With a full understanding of the inseparability of appearances and
emptiness, vision is naturally suffused by infinite purity
1.36 A finger pointing directly at pure presence
1.37 Reasons for the necessity to seek a rigzin-lama to introduce pure presence
1.38 The potential of pure being and primal awareness is already manifest in
basic pure presence
1.39 Dispelling doubt about the unconditioned potentiality of pure presence
1.40 How to make the five poisons into the path itself
1.41 Until discursive thought dissolves in spaciousness, karmic repercussions
must be considered
1.42 The benefits of hearing Dzogchen precepts


  1. MEDITATION AS THE PATH
    2.1 First, conviction in the view is essential
    2.2 The reason for meditation
    2.3 Disposition of meditation
    2.4 Without meditation, even trivial events create severe suffering
    2.5 Meditation removes the attachment that is the root of suffering
    2.6 The cause of manifest suffering is hope and fear
    2.7 A short explanation of how to sustain the primal awareness of intrinsic
    presence
    2.8 The place of meditation
    2.9 The disposition of the body
    2.10 How to sustain pure presence in brief
    2.11 How to sustain pure presence in general
    2.12 The five faults that hinder concentration
    2.13 The eight volitional antidotes to the five faults
    2.14 In unitary shamata and vipasyana, the nine mental states and the five

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