Simply Being: Texts in the Dzogchen Tradition
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