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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? | Älaya (basis of all). |
What quality should characterize the awakened Älaya 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? | KÄyas, 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 kÄya 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 saṃsÄra 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 dharmakÄya of great bliss. |
What is described as great and indestructible? | Sphere, the essence of saá¹sÄra and nirvÄá¹a. |
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 Oá¸á¸iyÄna 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 kÄyas and pure realms. |
With what did he reveal miraculous displays? | Infinite nirmÄá¹akÄyas 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 Oá¸á¸iyÄna Guru directly? | In your thirteenth year. |
What did the Oá¸á¸iyÄna Guru authorize? | Profound treasures and conferred his blessings. |
What attainments did he receive? | Including the Prince’s sÄdhana supports. |
What kind of treasures did he bring forth? | Treasures of the mind. |
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