Dharmashop – Daily Life Prayer Book
མཇུག་མཐར་པའི་ཚིག
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གུ་རུའི་ཚིག་བདུན་བླ་སྒྲུབ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཉེར་མཁོའི་ཞལ་འདོན་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས་བཞུགས་སོ།
Essential Prayers Related to the Guru Yoga Practice According to the
Seven Line Prayer
རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཏིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ངག་འདོན་ཁྲིགས་སུ་བསྡེབས་པ་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་
ལམ་བཟང་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།
The Excellent Path to Omniscience: The Dzogchen Preliminary Practice
of Longchen Nyingtik
རྒྱུན་མཁོའི་ཞལ་འདོན་གཅེས་བཏུས་བཞུགས་སོ།
Booklet printed for free distribution by Sonam Gompo, Dharamsala, India
Translations from Padmakara Translation Group and Padma Karpo
Translation Committee
The nine ways of mind-abiding
(semnépé tab gu, sems gnas pa’i thabs dgu)
Whatever the object of our meditation, we pass through nine stages in the development of shamatha.
1. Placement (jokpa, ‘jog pa) – focusing the mind upon an object
2. Continuous Placement (gyündu jokpa, rgyun du ‘jog pa) – maintaining that continuity
3. Re-placement (len té jokpa, blan te ‘jog pa) – whenever one forgets the object and becomes distracted one resettles the mind
4. Close placement (nyewar jokpa, nye bar ‘jog pa) – by settling in that way, the mind becomes increasingly focused on the object
5. Taming (dulwar jepa, dul bar byed pa) – by thinking of the qualities of samadhi, one feels greater joy for meditation
6. Pacification (shyiwar jepa, zhi bar byed pa) – then seeing the faults of distraction, one’s dislike for meditation is pacified
7. Thorough Pacification (nampar shyiwar jepa, rnam par zhi bar byed pa) – then whenever the cause of distraction, such as the subsidiary disturbing emotions or sleepiness or mental unease occur, they are completely pacified
8. Working at One-pointedness (tsechik tu jepa, rtse gcig tu byed pa) – then one attains some stability through applying the antidotes for distraction
9. Even Placement (nyampar jokpa jepa, mnyam par ‘jog pa byed pa) – finally one is able to rest the mind on its object quite naturally, without resorting to any antidote. Note: this is also known as the ‘one-pointed mind of the desire realm’ (dösem tsechikpa, ‘dod sems rtse gcig pa)
These nine are taken from Maitreya’s Ornament of Mahayana Sutras (tekpa chenpo dodéjen, theg pa chen po’i mdo sde’i rgyan, Skt. Mahayanasutralankara).
