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


#one-pointedness (Tib. [[རྩེ་གཅིག་]], ''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 (Tib. [[སྤྲོས་བྲལ་]], Wyl. ''spros bral''), which is reached through the clear seeing of [[vipashyana]]
#simplicity (Tib. [[སྤྲོས་བྲལ་]], ''trödral'';  Wyl. ''spros bral''), which is reached through the clear seeing of [[vipashyana]]
#one taste (Tib. [[རོ་གཅིག་]], ''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. [[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]].  
#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]].  


==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Tsoknyi Rinpoche]], Los Angeles, USA, 19 May 2000
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Myall Lakes, Australia, 21 January 2012
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Myall Lakes, Australia, 21 January 2012
*[[Dokhampa Shedrub Nyima]]:
**[[Dharma Mati]], Berlin, Germany, 10-13 October 2019
**London, UK, 19-20 October 2019
**[[Dzogchen Beara]], Ireland, 25-28 October 2019


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

Revision as of 14:54, 6 November 2019

Four yogas (Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་, naljor shyi, 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་, trödral; 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.

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Further Reading