The Royal Seal of Mahamudra Volume One: A Guidebook for the Realization of Coemergence

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An unusually detailed clear and complete instruction manual for the meditation practice of Mahamudra by a renowned eighteenth-century Tibetan master in the Drukpa Kagyu lineage. This guidebook for cultivating the meditative practices of stability and insightthe first major work from the Drukpa Kagyu lineage to become available in Englishstands out among works of its kind as one of the clearest and most comprehensive presentations of coemergence or mahamudra. In it the eighteenth-century Tibetan master Ngawang Kunga Tenzin the Third Khamtrul Rinpoche details a step-by-step program of spiritual exercises that bring the meditator directly to clear realization of the fully perfect ever-present nondual nature of mind. Beginning with the close relationship between phenomena and mind and the immense benefits of meditating on the nature of mind the Third Khamtrul Rinpoche offers careful instructions on the four yogas of mahamudra together with advice on how to recognize genuine progress and how to remove obstacles that arise during meditation. Characteristic of the Drukpa Kagyu approach is that he presents explanationseven to those in the earliest stages of trainingthat are grounded in insight into the nature of mind demonstrating how all experience thoughts and perceptions may be used as the path to enlightenment.