mystical experiences are correlated
2.15 The simple, quintessential disposition
2.16 The method of practicing the essential pure presence in sessions
2.17 The place of deviation into mystical experience
2.18 The distinction between mind and pure presence
2.19 The rigzin-lama’s personal instruction inspires meditation
- CONDUCT
3.1 An explanation of conduct
3.2 The sin of ignorance of the continuity of reflexively liberating thought
3.3 The preeminence of the mode of simultaneous arising and releasing of
thought
3.4 Meditation experience arises naturally in the mindstream
3.5 When conduct consists of simultaneous arising and releasing, it is free of
karma and its effects
3.6 A categorical assertion that Dzogchen transcends cause and effect
3.7 So long as dualistic perception obtains, heed karma and its effects
3.8 The evidence of the accomplishment of unchangeable self-beneficial pure
presence is equanimity in the face of the eight worldly obsessions
3.9 The evidence of the accomplishment of unchangeable altruistic pure
presence is spontaneous compassion and reliance on the laws of karma and
their results
3.10 Practitioners of the lower approaches are bound by strenuous effort
3.11 Conduct is characterized by the three modes of release
3.12 The perspectives of both sutra and tantra agree in rejecting gross
emotivity
3.13 Infusing conduct with the six perfections
3.14 Addiction to wealth leads to suffering
3.15 Everyone, high and low, has been a slave to attachment
3.16 The stupidity of suicide
3.17 With detachment, the mere possession of wealth and fame does no harm
3.18 Others are served best by an unselfish mind
3.19 When we know objects of attachment as delusion, the five sensory
pleasures do us no harm
3.20 Those with pure presence are labeled “buddha,” while the ignorant are
“sentient beings”
3.21 Three special features of intrinsic awareness
3.22 Discursive thought necessarily dissolves into basic pure presence
3.23 Detachment from samsara, nirvana, and the path between them is the
crux
3.24 “Hand-holding” instruction, in short
- THE ATTAINMENT
4.1 The spontaneous manifestation of buddha-potential in basic pure presence
4.2 Knowing the great perfection: buddha in one lifetime!
4.3 Contemporary stories of physical dissolution and liberation in a rainbow
