Heart Drops of Kun tu bZang po

Description

This precious set of teachings was translated by Geshe Sonam Gurung & Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D. under the Guidance of H.H. the 33rd Menri Trizin for the Pointing Out the Great Way Foundation.

This book is the shortest of Shar rdza Rinpoche’s trilogy on Bön Great Completion by-passing meditation. It contains:

(1) a detailed set of by-passing preliminary practices, including very detailed emptiness meditations;

(2) thoroughly cutting through pith instructions on view, meditation, conduct, and fruition to establish stable awakening. Emphasis is given to “the great non-action” as the essential point for crossing over from ordinary mind to awakened mind-itself;

(3) by-passing pith instructions to purify ordinary perception to directly experience each level of by-passing visions. Emphasis is given to the specialness of by-passing pith instructions as compared to thoroughly cutting through pith instructions, drawing from the teachings in Awakened Awareness of the Cuckoo and

(4) pith instructions for recognizing similar visions in the dying process and after-death bardos to transfer consciousness at that time.

A commentary on this text was transcribed in English from teachings by Lopon Tenzin Namdak, and made into a book entitled Heart Drops of Dharmakāya, Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1993. That translation was based on lectures he gave on the text to Western students in Nepal in 1991.