The Vow and Aspiration of Mahamudra: Including the Pith Instructions of Mahamudra: Including the Pith Instructions of Mahamudra by Tilopa
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The Vow and Aspiration of Mahamudra - Garmapa Dorje
The Vow and Aspiration of Mahamudra
Including the Pith Instructions of Mahamudra by Tilopa
By Garmapa Rinjen Droje, Translated by C.A. Muses, Compiled by Marilynn Hughes
The Vow and Aspiration of Mahamudra
Including the Pith Instructions of Mahamudra by Tilopa
By Garmapa Rinjen Droje, Translated by C.A. Muses, Compiled by Marilynn Hughes
Copyright 2015, Garmapa Rinjen Droje, Tilopa, Translation by C.A. Muses, 1961
Copyright 2015, Compiled by Marilynn Hughes
Published by ‘The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation
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The Vow and Aspiration of Mahamudra
Including the Pith Instructions of Mahamudra by Tilopa
By Garmapa Rinjen Droje, Translated by C.A. Muses, Compiled by Marilynn Hughes
CONTENTS
Translator’s Introduction - 6
The Vow – 12
The Pith Instructions of Mahamudra by Tilopa - 21
The Aspiration - 40
SOURCES - 46
The Vow and Aspiration of Mahamudra
Including the Pith Instructions of Mahamudra by Tilopa
By Garmapa Rinjen Droje, Translated by C.A. Muses, Compiled by Marilynn Hughes
INTRODUCTION
(Bolded items are Additional Comments or Commentaries
Added by Marilynn Hughes)
EDITOR’S NOTE –
Mahāmudrā (Tib. p’yag-rgya-chen-po) means literally the great attitude or symbolic gesture
. The term derives from the Hindu Tantra (as śri or mahāyantra) and the subsequent Buddhist Tantra of North India. One writer of that school, Advayavajra, in his Čaturmudrā, refers to Mahāmudrā in very much the same way that Śakti—as ultimate Divinity as Goddess—is referred to in higher treatises of the Hindu Tantra: She is not an object subject to time… she combines saṃsāra and nirvāṇa; her substance is universal Love; she is the unique essence of the Innate Transcendent Bliss.
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Translator's Introduction
"Buddhism seldom positively asserts what is the Truth. Rather, it teaches the truth-seekers to understand and to explore their own minds, for in the quest of Reality nothing is more important or befitting for the seeker than to know what the mind actually is rather than to know only what mind knows of—the so-called knowledge and objects known by the mind. Reality is the object known, but the first step is to understand the knower of this Reality. Whatever one's beliefs, opinions, and thoughts, all these depend on the mind and come through the mind, for there is no possibility for one to escape from the sphere of mind in thinking or knowing.
After waking from sleep, each day of our