Simply Being: Texts in the Dzogchen Tradition

Simply Being

Simply Being presents twelve texts collected and translated by James Low, who copied them from the travelling libraries of yogis practising in the Himalayas. These twelve traditional teachings show us how to recognize our own enlightened being as infinite awareness free of all effort and artifice. Freed from limiting false assumptions, human nature is revealed as a joyful process of open responsiveness.
James often teaches from the texts in this book.

English Simply Being: Texts in the Dzogchen Tradition. Translated and introduced by James Low. 3rd edition. (Antony Rowe, 2010) ISBN 978 1907571015

French. La Simplicité de la Grande Perfection: Recueil de Textes Dzogchen. Translated into French by Nathalie Koralnik and Patrice Sammut. [Éditions du Rocher, 1998]. ISBN: 2268029956 9782268029955

German. Aus dem Handgepäck eines tibetischen Yogi. Translated into German by Theo Kierdorf and Hildegard Höhr.  (Wandel Verlag, 2013) ISBN: 978-3-942380-17-1

Italian. Lo Stato naturale dell’essere: testi della tradizione dzogchen. Translated into Italian by M. Passavanti. (Ubaldini Editore, 2010) ISBN 9788834016541

Spanish. Simplemente ser: textos de la tradición dsogchen Translated into Spanish by Marta Pérez-Yarza. (Ediciones Dharma, 2009) ISBN 978 8496478442

 
Contents
Part 1.  The Texts

CHAPTER 1. THE EXPANSIVE ORAL INSTRUCTIONS OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA MASTER, CHETSANGPA RATNA SRI BUDDHI [1]

CHAPTER 2.  A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF REFUGE AND BODHICITTA by Patrul Rinpoche

CHAPTER 3. THE EXPANSIVE ORAL INSTRUCTIONS OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA MASTER, CHETSANGPA RATNA SRI BUDDHI: [2]

CHAPTER 4.  THE MEDITATION AND RECITATION ON VAJRASATTVA WHO PURIFIES ERRORS AND OBSCURATIONS by Chimed Rigdzin Rinpoche

CHAPTER 5.  THE EXPANSIVE ORAL INSTRUCTIONS OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA MASTER, CHETSANGPA RATNA SRI BUDDHI: [3]

CHAPTER 6. ENCOURAGEMENT THROUGH IMPERMANENCE by Rigdzin Godem

CHAPTER 7.  INSTRUCTIONS IN THE MAHAYANA VIEW WHICH CLARIFIES THE TWO TRUTHS by Patrul Rinpoche

CHAPTER 8.  THE DIRECT INDICATION OF BUDDHAHOOD BEYOND CLASSIFICATION by Nuden Dorje

CHAPTER 9.  THE NATURAL WAY AND THE WAY OF DELUSION by Padma Sambhava

CHAPTER 10.  SELF-LIBERATING UNDERSTANDING by Patrul Rinpoche

CHAPTER 11.  THE ESSENTIAL POINT IN THREE STATEMENTS by Patrul Rinpoche

CHAPTER 12.  A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF MAHAMUDRA by Maitripa

CHAPTER 13. THE TREASURY OF SONGS by Saraha

PART 2.  The Talks

CHAPTER 14.  ON REFUGE AND BODHICITTA

CHAPTER 15.  THE TRANSMISSION OF THE DHARMA

CHAPTER 16.  FOUR QUALITIES OF ACTUALITY

CHAPTER 17.  ON THE THREE STATEMENTS OF GARAB DORJE

 

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