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What should be employed as a lamp of recollection at near-attainment?
Lamp of recollection.
What should be merged with natural luminosity after near-attainment?
Near-attainment.
Where does the practitioner aspire to awaken within after merging near-attainment with luminosity?
Primordial expanse.
What happens if the force of recollection is weak and consciousness is lost?
Experience an absence of thought.
What should awaken as dharmadhatu if consciousness is lost?
ālaya (basis of all).
What quality should characterize the awakened ālaya as dharmadhatu?
Clear, lucid, and free of all conceptualization.
What vision will dawn if dharmakaya is not merged with?
Appearances of the hundred deities.
How will the hundred deity appearances sound and look?
Terrifying sounds and startling brilliance.
What should be recalled if the deity appearances cause terror?
They are like nothing more than stuffed lions.
For how many days of meditative absorption should one behold the buddha faces?
For five days.
What should be connected with the buddha faces?
My own natural radiance.
What should awareness enter into after connecting with buddha faces?
Luminosity.
How should liberation be achieved when luminosity dissolves into awareness?
Liberated like a child leaping into its mother’s lap.
What vision appears when union dissolves into wisdom?
Luminosity appears as radiant spheres (bindu).
What path is associated with the appearances of fourfold wisdom?
Inner Path of Vajrasattva.
What ground should be seized when the inner path of Vajrasattva manifests?
Very ground of awareness.
What are the eight great gateways of spontaneous wisdom?
Kāyas, wisdoms, compassion, lights, Freedom from extremes, non-duality, purity, and impurity.
What is the nature of entrance to or withdrawal from samsara and nirvana?
Simply the natural expression of awareness.
What confidence should be gained from the great display of the ground?
Confidence in which nothing ever wavers from the ground itself.
Through familiarity with what phase, may the subtle body of wind and mind arise?
Creation phase.
Through what aspects may the subtle body arise as the yidam deity?
Five aspects of complete enlightenment.
What kaya should be merged with in the bardo through creation phase practice?
Sambhogakay.
What kaya should one arise in through merging with sambhogakaya in bardo?
Illusory so.
What practices grant relief to those who take devotion as their practice?
Five recollections, six clairvoyances, And unfailing powers of mnemonic retention.
What should be brought to mind to come under protection?
Guru.
Whose face should be recalled and beheld?
Yidam deity.
What aspects should be recollected along with yidam deity?
View, meditation, Places of rebirth, and the pith instructions.
What memories should be accessible in the bardo according to the aspiration?
Past lives.
What perspectives should be accessible in the bardo according to the aspiration?
View death and transmigration and future birth.
What abilities should be developed regarding others' minds?
Know the minds of others.
What awareness should be gained regarding phenomena in the bardo?
Be aware of hidden phenomena.
What should be seen in their realms in the bardo?
Beings of the six classes.
What sensory abilities should be gained in the bardo?
Pure sensory perception and clairvoyance.
What should be unfailingly recalled and retained in the bardo?
All the boundless forms of Dharma.
What nature should be recognized at this crucial time in the bardo?
Empty, primordially pure and unelaborate nature of awareness.
What confidence should be gained by recognizing the empty nature of awareness?
Confidence.
Is there a limit to investigating the bardo of dharmata in essence?
No.
What happens when investigation is turned upon the investigator?
It is clear that there is nothing whatsoever that is real.
What disappears by itself when nothing real is found?
Even the idea of non-existence.
What is the site of primordial liberation?
This (investigation revealing nothing real) is the site of primordial liberation.
What kaya is attained through realizing primordial liberation?
‘Youthful kāya in a vase’.
What should emanate from the youthful kaya?
Emanate from its spontaneous, creative power.
What is the purpose of emanations from the youthful kaya?
To dredge the depths of saṃsāra for the benefit of all.
If wandering into the bardo of becoming, what will the practitioner become?
Aggregate of the four ‘names’ With all senses intact and a body of mental energy.
What will be clearly recalled and known in the becoming bardo?
Clearly recall my death and know that I’ve passed on.
What will the practitioner be barred from in the becoming bardo?
Place of liberation and site of rebirth.
What will be followed in the becoming bardo?
Winds of karma.
What sensations and emotions will be experienced in the becoming bardo?
Suffer exhaustion, And, in terror, endure the torments of my death.
How often will the torments of death be endured in the becoming bardo?
Repeatedly, at the end of each and every week.
What will be sought in the becoming bardo?
Place to take rebirth.
Through familiarization with what practices, pure realms can be reached in bardo?
Intense Joy, The Glorious, Stacked Lotuses, Perfect Deeds Accomplished, And Blazing Mountain.
What is granted by these pure realms?
Wondrous relief of total liberation.
Where should the practitioner proceed without hesitation?
To those pure realms.
If not ripened by empowerment, what may be manifested as indications of future birth?
Indications of my future birth will manifest:
What visual cue indicates rebirth in the hells?
Look downwards at a tree stump.
What visual cue indicates rebirth in the hungry spirit realm?
Look downwards at smoke.
What visual cue indicates rebirth as an animal?
Look ahead and perceive blood.
What visual cue indicates rebirth as a titan?
Look ahead and perceive rain and snow.
What visual cue indicates rebirth as a god?
Look up and perceive whiteness.
If reborn as a desire realm god, what will one delight in?
Delight in objects.
If reborn as a form realm god, what will one revel in?
Revel in light.
If reborn as a formless realm god, what will one relish?
Relish open space that is devoid of anything at all.
When especially should insubstantiality of attachment and aversion be practiced?
Upon seeing the union of my future parents.
Through what training may insubstantiality of attachment be achieved?
Trained in the insubstantiality of attachment and aversion.
What empowerment meaning should be experienced to avoid rebirth?
Meaning of the third empowerment.
What purifying actions should be done to avoid rebirth?
Purifying the four ways of taking birth.
Based on familiarity with what conduct, can birth be blended with nirmanakaya?
Mantric conduct.
What cleansing agent of yoga helps blend birth with nirmanakaya?
Cleansing agent of creation phase yoga.
What power is gained by blending birth with nirmanakaya?
Gain the power to reconnect with my practice.
What should be integrated if empowerments that ripen cannot be integrated?
Empowerments that ripen.
What should be kept and result to be obtained if empowerments are not integrated?
Instructions that liberate, samaya that is to be kept And result to be obtained.
With what key points should one be familiar if empowerments are not integrated?
Key points of transference of the three doors.
Who is the prayer addressed to?
Noble guru, at your feet I pray.
What kind of body does the prayer mention?
All-pervasive luminous dharmakāya of great bliss.
What is described as great and indestructible?
Sphere, the essence of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa.
Who is considered the primordial protector?
Sovereign who is present in all things.
Who is described as the heir to the wisdom mind of the Oḍḍiyāna Guru?
The second buddha.
Who is called the universal ruler?
Of oceanic adepts and revealers of treasure.
What kind of life did Chokgyur Lingpa have?
Liberated life beyond imagining.
What did Chokgyur Lingpa discover?
Nectar of perfect peace at the outset.
What did Chokgyur Lingpa arrange?
Vast, ocean-like clouds of kāyas and pure realms.
With what did he reveal miraculous displays?
Infinite nirmāṇakāyas in art, through rebirth and supreme.
What training did he reveal the display of?
Fourfold training.
Where in particular did he adopt a guise?
In the Land of Snows.
Whose guise did he adopt in the Land of Snows?
Son of Lord Tri Song.
What supreme siddhi did he attain?
Of the son of Lord Tri Song.
Who did he manifest as?
Sangye Lingpa and the rest.
How many wondrous forms are mentioned?
A hundred wondrous and amazing dance-like forms.
What does the prayer say about his magnanimity?
With pre-eminent magnanimity, you consider the beings of this degenerate age.
How does he appear according to needs?
With pre-eminent activity, you appear according to the needs of those to be trained.
What kind of treasury does he hold?
Unprecedented secret treasury.
In what three ways is he pre-eminent?
Pre-eminent in these three ways.
Where was he intentionally born?
Heart of Upper Dokham.
What did he transcend in youth?
Realm of the ordinary.
What life did he awaken affinity for?
Noble life of liberation.
Who did he bring inspiration to?
Those with faith.
When did he meet the Oḍḍiyāna Guru directly?
In your thirteenth year.
What did the Oḍḍiyāna Guru authorize?
Profound treasures and conferred his blessings.
What attainments did he receive?
Including the Prince’s sādhana supports.
What kind of treasures did he bring forth?
Treasures of the mind.