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He focused on the collection of advanced cave and hermitage yogi practices called the sKu gsum rang shar [Self-Arising Three-fold Embodiment of Enlightenment] and asked us to translate it, along with putting it in a form that was understandable and teachable to Westerners.
there is some risk that these most advanced meditations will disappear because fewer practitioners are available who are capable of mastering these most advanced meditation practices.
Part I. Introduction The Unique Contributions of Shardza Rinpoche
W.M. Gorvine (2006) appropriately says that Shar rdza bKra’ shis rGyal mtshan is “the most prominent and influential figure in the Tibetan Bon religion in the twentieth century.”
Thereafter he began intensively practicing his one hundred thousand preliminaries. Then, his master gave him the A Khrid actual foundational teachings16 on concentration on the letter A, as well as emptiness meditation instructions. Later that year, Shar rdza Rinpoche went into a meditation retreat and “reached an experience of the absence of true existence (bden med) of all phenomena.”17
Tenzin Namdak adds, “From then on he began keeping notes for his books called Five Treasures.”22 After realizing the natural state, his recognition of the liveliness of awakened awareness is said to have become strong “to such an extent that he could easily understand whatever texts he was reading.”23
At the age of twenty-five he met the master Me ston Chen po and renewed his monastic vows.
extracting the vital essence while fasting in meditation retreats (bcud len),
At the age of twenty-seven Shar rdza Rinpoche began the serious practice of solo Inner Fire (gtum mo) after receiving a transmission on the rTsa rlung mkha’ ‘gro mdzod [Secret Treasury on Channels and Winds of the Ḍākinīs]. He had a clear experience of a variety of blisses, along with the eradication of all residual conceptual thought.27 From Khro tshang rTogs ldan dGa’ bde he received the teachings from the gSang thur (Lower Secret) and trained in the path of great bliss of the lower gateway. However, as a monk, he was not likely to have done so with an actual female consort.28
The distinction between automatic meditation (ngang sgom) and mastery meditation (klong sgom), wherein meditation is continuous with full mastery of whatever is intended,
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Self-Arising Three-Fold Embodiment of Enlightenment by Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen, Geshe Sonam Gurung , and Daniel P. Brown presents key insights from the Tibetan Buddhism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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