Read Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire Online

Authors: Lama Thubten Yeshe,Philip Glass

Tags: #Tantra, #Sexuality, #Buddhism, #Mysticism, #Psychology, #Self-help

Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire (25 page)

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Selected Additional Reading

THE FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE

MAHAYANA TRADITION

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Document Outline

Title Page
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 - Basic Purity
- SHAKYAMUNI, THE FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM
- FUNDAMENTAL PURITY OF THE MIND
- THE TANTRIC APPROACH
- THE PRINCIPLE OF TRANSFORMATION
Chapter 2 - Desire and Happiness
- DESIRE, FRUSTRATION, AND SELF-CONTROL
- RELIGION AND THE REJECTION OF PLEASURE
- BUDDHA AND THE PATH OF ENJOYMENT
- FOLLOWING THE PATH TODAY
Chapter 3 - Pleasure, Disappointment, and Fulfi llment
- TANTRA AND ENJOYMENT
- IMAGES OF WHOLENESS
- FOUR CLASSES OF TANTRA
- DESIRE AND DISTORTION
- THE SOURCE OF DISSATISFACTION
- THE TANTRIC SOLUTION
- A NOTE OF CAUTION
Chapter 4 - Overthrowing the Tyranny of Ordinary Appearances
- BEYOND LIMITATIONS: SEEING ONESELF AS A DEITY
- PROBLEMS OF SELF-EMANATION
- THE MIND DISTRACTED OUTWARD
- THE CHALLENGE OF EXPLORING INNER SPACE
Chapter 5 - Emerging from Dissatisfaction
- WHAT IS RENUNCIATION?
- DEVELOPING DETACHMENT
- GIVING UP FALSE REFUGE
Chapter 6 - Opening the Heart
- SELFISHNESS OR DEDICATION TO OTHERS?
- THE OPEN-HEARTED BODHICHITTA MOTIVATION
- LIBERATION FROM SELF-CHERISHING
- MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT BODHICHITTA
- DEVELOPING EQUANIMITY: THE FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSAL COMPASSION
- BODHICHITTA IS NECESSARY FOR PRACTICING TANTRA
Chapter 7 - Dissolving Self-Created Limitations
- THE BURDEN OF MISTAKEN VIEWS
- DREAMS AND EMPTINESS
- EGO-GRASPING AND INSECURITY
- IDENTIFYING THE INNER ENEMY
- LOOSENING THE GRIP OF MISCONCEPTION
- CULTIVATING THE MIDDLE WAY
Chapter 8 - Clear Spaciousness of Mind
- MAKING SPACE THROUGH “NOT SEEING”
- CLARITY AND NONDUALITY
- MANIFESTATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- CLARITY, LOVE, AND PEACE
- CLARITY, COLOR, AND BLISS
- BLISSFUL ABSORPTION INTO REALITY
- RIPENING OUR ENLIGHTENED POTENTIAL
Chapter 9 - Inspiration and the Guru
- THE NEED FOR INSPIRATION
- THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL GURU
- THE SPIRITUAL GUIDE AND MODEL
- TRANSMISSION THROUGH EMPOWERMENT
- RECEIVING INITIATION
- THE FORMAL PRACTICE OF GURU YOGA
- CONTINUOUS RECOGNITION OF UNITY
- TOUCHING THE HEART WITH INSPIRATION
- BREAKING THE HABIT OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCES
Chapter 10 - Entering Highest Tantric Practice
- THE VAJRA BODY AND RESIDENT MIND
- CHANGING OUR VIEW OF DEATH
- DEATH, INTERMEDIATE STATE, AND REBIRTH
- THE THREE ASPECTS OF BUDDHAHOOD
- TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR HUMAN FORM
- THE PROCESS OF DYING
- DEATH AND DHARMAKAYA
- BARDO AND SAMBHOGAKAYA
- REBIRTH AND NIRMANAKAYA
- CUTTING REBIRTH
Chapter 11 - Arising as a Deity
- FROM SELF-PITY TO DIVINE SELF-EMANATION
- DISSOLUTION
- REAPEARANCE
- LETTING GO
- DIVINE PRIDE AND CLEAR APPEARANCE
- THE TANTRIC PERSONALITY
- INTEGRATING WISDOM AND ENJOYMENT
Chapter 12 - Final Accomplishment
- THE COMPLETION STAGE: INNER FIRE AND ENERGY CONTROL
- BLISSFUL AWARENESS
- DAKAS AND DAKINIS
- THE FRUIT OF TANTRIC PRACTICE
- QUALITIES LEADING TO SUCCESS
Glossary
Selected Additional Reading
Index
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE MAHAYANA TRADITION
About Wisdom
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Copyright Page

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