Tibetan yoga and secret doctrine

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(6) (3) (1) TIBETAN YOGA SECRET DOCTRINES OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS New York PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION viii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION BOOK I THE SUPREME PATH OF DISCIPLESHIP: THE PRECEPTS OF THE GURUS BOOK II THE NIRVĀṆIC PATH: THE YOGA OF THE GREAT SYMBOL 1. 1. 2. BOOK IV THE PATH OF TRANSFERENCE: THE YOGA OF CONSCIOUSNESS-TRANSFERENCE BOOK V THE PATH OF THE MYSTIC SACRIFICE: THE YOGA OF SUBDUING THE LOWER SELF BOOK VI THE PATH OF THE FIVE WISDOMS: THE YOGA OF THE LONG HUM BOOK VII THE PATH OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL WISDOM: THE YOGA OF THE VOIDNESS FOREWORD PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION YOGIC COMMENTARY GENERAL INTRODUCTION SCIENCE IN THE EAST AND WEST 55 THE SUPREME PATH OF DISCIPLESHIP: THE PRECEPTS OF THE GURUS1 60 SUPREME PATH OF DISCIPLESHIP [Book i FROM ‘THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE’1 [THE SUPREME PATH OF DISCIPLESHIP: THE PRECEPTS OF THE GURUS] THE NIRVĀṆIC PATH: THE YOGA OF THE GREAT SYMBOL1 [THE NIRVĀṆIC PATH: THE YOGA OF THE GREAT SYMBOL] [THE REFUGE, THE RESOLUTION, AND THE COMMUNION WITH THE GURUS] [THE SEVEN BODILY POSTURES2] [THE EFFECTS OF THE SEVEN BODILY POSTURES] [THE TRANQUILLITY OF SPEECH] [THE TRANQUILLITY OF MIND] [THE FOUR RECOLLECTIONS] Part ii] YOGA OF THE UNCREATED 137 [THE SUMMARY OF THE TEACHINGS] [ANALYSING THE IMPEDIMENTS AND ERRORS WHILE TREADING THE PATH] [DIFFERENTIATING EXPERIENCES AND PRACTICAL FROM THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE] THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE: THE YOGA OF THE SIX DOCTRINES1 Introd.] THE PSYCHIC NERVOUS SYSTEM 157 [THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE: THE YOGA OF THE SIX DOCTRINES] [PART I: THE FIVE PRELIMINARY EXERCISES] A, Ā; I, Ī; U, Ū; RI, RĪ; LI, LĪ E, EĪ; O, OŪ; ANG, Ȧ;1 KA, KHA, GA, GHA, NGA; CHA, CHHA, JA, JHA, NYA; TA, THA, DA, DHA, NA [hard, as TA, THA, DA, DHA, NA [soft, as palatals]; PA, PHA, BA, BHA, MA; YA, RA, LA, VA; SHA, KSHA, SA, HA, KSHYA.2 [External Psychic-Heat] [Internal Psychic-Heat] [The Six Fundamental Physical Exercises of Naropa] Namo Mahā-Mūdrāya!2 [PART I: REALIZING THE IMPURE ILLUSORY BODY TO BE MĀYĀ] [PART II: TRANSMUTING THE DREAM-CONTENT] [PART IV: MEDITATING UPON THE THATNESS OF THE DREAM-STATE] [PART II: THE CLEAR LIGHT ON THE PATH] [PART III: THE RESULTANT CLEAR LIGHT] [PART I: REALIZING THE STATE OF THE CLEAR LIGHT OF THE DHARMA-KĀYA WHILE IN THE BARDO] [PART III: REALIZING THE STATE OF THE NIRMĀṆA-KĀYA WHILE IN THE BARDO] THE PATH OF TRANSFERENCE: THE YOGA OF CONSCIOUSNESS-TRANS- FERENCE1 From the standpoint of psychical research, Pho-wa seems to have direct bearing upon what are known as phantasms. For the master of Pho-wa would doubtless tell us that all phantasms are explicable under two categories: (1) as visuali- zations unconsciously projected by the percipient as hallu- cinations, in response to stimuli produced telepathically by an external agency, human or non-human, incarnate or dis- carnate; or (a) as actual ‘astral’ projections of the so-called dead or living.1 Such then, are, in outline, the traditional teachings and lore, the practices, and the guru’s interpretation of and warning concerning this yoga. [THE PATH OF TRANSFERENCE: THE YOGA OF CONSCIOUSNESS-TRANS- FERENCE] (9) Then, concluding with a loud exclamatory utterance of PHAṬ! the Guru Himself [in His illusory form, as visualized, is to be thought of as being transferred] to the Dharma- Dhātu State in the Akaniṣḥṭḥa Heaven and there absorbed into the heart of Vajra-Dhāra [in His true form].1 (10) Abide in that condition of spiritual exaltation for a time. (11) Then perform the rites of dedication,2 and recite the Paths [or Prayers] of Good-Wishes3 over and over again. (12) Those devotees who have realized the at-one-ment of mind and phenomena should perform the rite of conscious- ness-transference on behalf of a deceased person as followeth: (13) First recite the Refuge and the Resolution, in the state [of mental quiescence] devoid of thought-forming, and pray repeatedly to the Inspired Line of Gurus, Who are the THE PATH OF THE MYSTIC SACRIFICE: THE YOGA OF SUBDUING THE LOWER SELF1 [THE PATH OF THE MYSTIC SACRIFICE: THE YOGA OF SUBDUING THE LOWER SELF] AŪṂ! Phaṭ! Hūṃ. Hūṃ. Hūṃ. Phaṭ! Hūṃ. Hūṃ. Hūṃ. Phaṭ! Hūṃ. Hūṃ. Hūṃ. Phaṭ! Phaṭ! Phaṭ! Phaṭ! Phaṭ! Phaṭ! Phaṭ! Phaṭ! Phaṭ! Phaṭ! Phaṭ! THE ADDENDUM [THE PATH OF THE FIVE WISDOMS: THE YOGA OF THE LONG HŪṂ] (11) SARVA SIDDHI KARISHYANTU.4 Shubham.5 THE PATH OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL WISDOM: THE YOGA OF THE VOIDNESS1 [THE PATH OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL WISDOM: THE YOGA OF THE VOIDNESS] TADYATHĀ GATE GATE PARA-GATE PARA- SAM-GATE BODHI SVA-HA.3 3331. 1545. 2451, 3052. 317, 3172. 1551. 1933. 346. 944. 94, 942- 2142, 221n. 94, 942. Ma-nam-kha-ma, 1225. Manam-khama Prayer, the, 122, 123n. Ma-nam-mkhah-ma, 1225. Maṇḍala, 722, 3091. Mangalam, 100, 1003. Maṇipūra-chakra, 191, Māra, 328, 3281. Mātris, 3103. Mched, 2272. Mdo-sde-rgyan, 1351- 353, 359, 361. 1431. 1772. 2193. 3391. 2517. Rūpadhātu, 942. 33910. 157. 3413-. 173–9, 190 ff., 242, 2422, 248–50, 261, 265–8, 270–4, 284, 311–12. — Lotus, 227, 2273. 1187, 182. 1473, 148, 152, 1523, 190, 239, 2393, 331, — Great, 206, 2062, 227, 2271. 2393. 1744, 305, 3054. 773. 1374. 145–8.