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'''Four yogas''' ([[Wyl.]] ''rnal 'byor bzhi'') — four stages of attainment in the meditation practice of [[Mahamudra]].
'''Four yogas''' (Tib. [[རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་]], [[Wyl.]] ''rnal 'byor bzhi'')—four stages of attainment in the meditation practice of [[Mahamudra]].


#one-pointedness (Tib. ''tsé chik''; Wyl. ''rtse gcig''), which establishes the state of [[shamatha]]
#one-pointedness (Tib. [[རྩེ་གཅིག་]], ''tsé chik''; Wyl. ''rtse gcig''), which establishes the state of [[shamatha]]
#simplicity (Wyl. ''spros bral''), which is reached through the clear seeing of [[vipashyana]]
#simplicity (Tib. [[སྤྲོས་བྲལ་]], Wyl. ''spros bral''), which is reached through the clear seeing of [[vipashyana]]
#one taste (Tib. ''ro chik''; Wyl. ''ro gcig''), when shamatha and vipashyana become one
#one taste (Tib. [[རོ་གཅིག་]], ''ro chik''; Wyl. ''ro gcig''), when shamatha and vipashyana become one
#non-meditation (Tib. ''gom mé''; Wyl. ''sgom med'') is reached when one goes beyond the mind, and beyond the concept of a meditator meditating, the level of [[Dzogchen]].  
#non-meditation (Tib. [[སྒོམ་མེད་]], ''gom mé''; Wyl. ''sgom med'') is reached when one goes beyond the mind, and beyond the concept of a meditator meditating, the level of [[Dzogchen]].  


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
*[[Kalu Rinpoche]], ''The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen'', [[Khyentse Özer]], Rigpa, London, 1990.  
*[[Kalu Rinpoche]], ''The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen'', [[Khyentse Özer]], Rigpa, London, 1990.  
 
*[[Herbert V. Guenther]], ''Meditation Differently'', The Māhamudrā Approach: The Four Tuning-in Phases, 1992.  {{Dictref|[[HVG]]}} {{Dictref|[[MD]]}}
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Revision as of 11:59, 18 March 2011

Four yogas (Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་, Wyl. rnal 'byor bzhi)—four stages of attainment in the meditation practice of Mahamudra.

  1. one-pointedness (Tib. རྩེ་གཅིག་, tsé chik; Wyl. rtse gcig), which establishes the state of shamatha
  2. simplicity (Tib. སྤྲོས་བྲལ་, Wyl. spros bral), which is reached through the clear seeing of vipashyana
  3. one taste (Tib. རོ་གཅིག་, ro chik; Wyl. ro gcig), when shamatha and vipashyana become one
  4. non-meditation (Tib. སྒོམ་མེད་, gom mé; Wyl. sgom med) is reached when one goes beyond the mind, and beyond the concept of a meditator meditating, the level of Dzogchen.

Further Reading