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The Great Chariot by Longchenpa
A Commentaryby Lama Ugyen Shenpen
[PART 6 of 6]
Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14
[Text Layout by Jampa Namgyal – November 2008]
 
 Longchenpa - The Great Chariot [Commentary Ch. 11-12-13-14]
 Editor's Note:
Original files copied in 1999 from the web site of : Rime@pop.plinet.com -- Open Tibetan Buddhist Texts Paragraph starting with '\ ### ...' are original verse from Longchenpa’s Great Chariot. Paragraph starting with '~ ...' are usually quotes from other texts pointed out by Lama Ugyen Shenpen.The rest of the text is usually from Lama Ugyen Shenpen's Commentary.Comments on Italics.2 / 137 
 
 Longchenpa - The Great Chariot [Commentary Ch. 11-12-13-14]
CONTENTS
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L1: [INTRODUCTION - Three main sections of the Great Chariot's Commentary] :L1L1: [First, the manner of entering on the composition of the treatise and the meaning of the introductory section,] :L1L1: [Second, there is the extensive explanation of the actual subject] :L1L2: [CHAPTER I. The free and well-favored human body, so difficult to obtain.] :L2L2: [CHAPTER II. The Impermanence of Life] :L2L2: [CHAPTER III. The Sufferings of Samsara (Developing Renunciation for Samsara)] :L2L2: [CHAPTER IV. "Karma, Cause, and Effect"] :L2L2: [CHAPTER V. Relying on the Spiritual Friend] :L2L2: [CHAPTER VI. Going for Refuge] :L2L2: [CHAPTER VII. The Four Immeasurables] :L2L2: [Chapter VIII. Bodhicitta, the mind focused on supreme enlightenment] :L2L2: [Chapter IX. Unifying the developing stage and the perfecting stage] :L2L2: [Chapter X. The view of Prajna that realizes the Ground without dwelling in dualistic extremes] :L2
L2: [Chapter XI. Meditation, the chapter of spotless samadhi] :L2L3: [A. Having resolved the view, one should meditate] :L3L3: [B. The gradation of powers of those who meditate into high, middle, and low] :L3L4: [1. Those of the highest powers,] :L4L5: [a. How the very highest will be liberated:] :L5L5: [b. Becoming Space free from meditation and meditator.] :L5L5: [c. The instruction of how intermediate and lesser ones should meditate] :L5L5: [d. The suitability of meditation] :L5L5: [e. The need to unite shamatha and vipashyana] :L5L5: [f. The explanation of the reason] :L5L4: [2. How those of average powers should meditate,] :L4L5: [a. The instruction to rest in non-thought] :L5L5: [b. The extensive teaching of how to meditate] :L5L6: [1) The points of posture and means of resting] :L6L6: [2) How virtues arise] :L6L6: [3) How to realize dharmata] :L6L6: [4) The main cause of the wisdom of the noble ones] :L6L5: [c. The extensive teaching of the eight means of resting] :L5L6: [1) Resting undistracted in simplicity] :L6L6: [2) Resting in clear luminosity without disturbance] :L6L6: [3) Resting free from partiality like the sky] :L6L6: [4) Resting in spontaneous actionlessness] :L6L6: [5) Resting in apparent objects as unobstructed] :L6L6: [6) Resting in the clear luminosity of primordial liberation] :L6L6: [7) Resting one-pointedly like an archer] :L6L6: [8) Resting without action in spontaneous presence] :L6L4: [9. Summarizing the meaning of the eight means of resting] :L4L5: [d. Treading the Path] :L5L6: [1) The wisdom of appearance] :L6L6: [2) The wisdom of luminosity:] :L6L6: [3) The wisdom of proliferation] :L6L6: [4) The sign of attaining heat] :L6L6: [5) The wisdom of the noble ones which is attained] :L6L6: [6) The first attainment of the wisdom of the noble ones:] :L6L6: [7) How the noble ones are perfected by full attainment] :L6L4: [3. How those of lesser powers, by becoming gradually accustomed to the means of resting, can also accomplish thestate of a vidyadhara.] :L4L5: [a. The brief teaching:] :L5L5: [b. Shamatha,] :L5L6: [1) Taming discursive thoughts] :L6L6: [2) Holding the object one-pointedly] :L6L6: [3) The actual samadhi of shamatha (i.e. Single-pointed concentration, having bliss as a fruit)] :L6L5: [c. Vipashyana] :L5L6: [1) The way of training.] :L6
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