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Outline to “Living and Dying”

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“The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying”
By Sogyal Rinpoche

i. Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
ii. Preface

PART ONE: LIVING (chapters 1-10)
1. In the Mirror of Death
1.1. Death in the Modern World
1.2. The Journey Through Life and Death
2. Impermanence
2.1 The Great Deception
2.2 Active Laziness
2.3 Facing Death
2.4 Taking Life Seriously
2.5 Autum Clouds
3. Reflection and Change
3.1 Accepting Death
3.2 A Change in the Depths of the Heart
3.3 The Heartbeat of Death
3.4 Working with Changes
3.5 The Spirit of the Warrior
3.6 The Message of Impermanence: What Hope there is in Death
3.7  The Changeless
4. The Nature of Mind
4.1 The Mind and the Nature of Mind
4.2 The Sky and the Clouds
4.3 The Four Faults
4.4 Looking In
4.5 The Promise of Enlightenment The Nature of Mind
5. Bringing the Mind Home
5.1 Training the Mind
5.2 The Heart of Meditation
5.3 The Practice of Mindfulness
5.4 Natural Great Peace
5.5 Methods in Meditation
5.6 The Posture
5.7 Three Methods of Meditation
5.7.1 Watching the Breath
5.7.2 Using an Object
5.7.3 Reciting a Mantra
5.8 The Mind in Meditation
5.9 A Delicate Balance
5.10 Thought and Emotions: The Waves And The Ocean
5.11 Experiences
5.12 TakingBreaks
5.13 Integration: Meditation in Action
5.14 Inspiration
6. Evolution, Karma, and Rebirth
6.1 Some Suggestive “Proofs” of Rebirth
6.2 The Continuity of Mind
6.3 Karma
6.4 The Good Heart
6.5 Creativity
6.6 Responsibility
6.7 Reincarnations in Tibet
7. Bardos and Other Realities
7.1 Bardos
7.2 Uncertainty and Opportunity
7.3 Other Realities
7.4 Life and Death in the Palm of Their Hands
8. This Life: The Natural Bardo
8.1 KarmicVision
8.2 Six Realms
8.3 The Doors of Perception
8.4 The Wisdom of Egolessness
8.5 Ego on the Spiritual Path
8.6 The Wise Guide
8.7 The Three Wisdom Tools
8.8 Doubts on the Path
9. The Spiritual Path
9.1 Finding the Way
9.2 How to Follow the Path
9.3 The Master
9.4 The Alchemy of Devotion
9.5 The Stream of Blessings
9.6 GuruYoga: Merging with the Wisdom Mind of the Master
9.6.1 Invocation
9.6.2 Maturing and Deepening the Blessing
9.6.3 Empowerment
9.6.4 Resting in the Rigpa
10. The Innermost Essence
10.1 The View
10.2 Meditation
10.3 Action
10.4 The Rainbow Body
PART TWO: DYING (chapters 11-15)
11. Heart Advice on Helping the Dying
11.1 Showing Unconditional Love
11.2 Telling the Truth
11.3 Fears About Dying
11.4 Unfinished Business
11.5 Saying Goodbye
11.6 Toward a Peaceful Death
12. Compassion: The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel
12.1 The Story of Tonglen and the Power of Compassion
12.2 How to Awaken Love and Compassion
12.2.1 Loving Kindness: Unsealing the Spring
12.2.2 Compassion: Considering Yourself the Same as Others
12.2.3 Compassion: Exchanging Yourself for Others
12.2.4 Using a Friend to Generate Compassion
12.2.5 How to Mediate on Compassion
12.2.6 How to Direct Your Compassion
12.3 The Stages of Tonglen
12.4 The Preliminary Tonglen Practice
12.4.1 Environmental Tonglen
12.4.2 Self Tonglen
12.4.3. Tonglen in a Living Situation
12.4.4 Tonglen for Others
12.5 The Main Tonglen Practice
12.6 Tonglen for a Dying Person
12.7 The Holy Secret
13. Spiritual Help for the Dying
13.1 By the Bedside of the Dying
13.2 Giving Hope and Finding Forgiveness
13.3 Finding a Spiritual Practice
13.4 The Essential Phowa Practice
13.4.1 Practice One
13.4.2 Practice Two
13.4.3 Practice Three
13.5 Using the Essential Phowa Practice to Help the Dying
13.6 Dedicating Our Death
14. The Practices for Dying
14.1 The Moment of Death
14.2 Letting Go of Attachment
14.3 Entering the Clear Awareness
14.4 The Instructions for Dying
14.5 The Practice for Dying
14.6 Phowa: The Transference of the Consciousness
14.7 The Grace of Prayer at the Moment of Death
14.8 The Atmosphere for Dying
14.9 Leaving the Body
15. The Process of Dying
15.1 The Exhaustion of our Lifespan
15.2 Untimely Death
15.3 The “Painful” Bardo of Dying
15.4 The Process of Dying
15.5 The Position for Dying
15.6 The Outer Dissolution: The Sense and the Elements
15.6.1 Earth
15.6.2 Water
15.6.3 Fire
15.6.4 Air
15.7 The Inner Dissolution
15.8 The Death of “The Poisons”
PART THREE: DEATH AND REBIRTH (chapter 16-12)
16. The Ground
16.1 The Ground of the Ordinary Mind
16.2 The Meeting of Mother and Child
16.3 The Duration of the Ground Luminosity
16.4 The Death of a Master
17. Intrinsic Radiance
17.1 The Four Phases of Dharmata
17.1.1 Luminosity- The Landscape of Light
17.1.2 Union- The Deities
17.1.3 Wisdom
17.1.4 Spontaneous Presence
17.2 Understanding Dharmata
17.3 Recognition
18. The Bardo of Becoming
18.1 The Mental Body
18.2 The Experiences of the Bardo
18.3 The Duration of the Bardo of Becoming
18.4 Judgment
18.5 The Power of the Mind
18.6 Rebirth
19. Helping after Death
19.1 When we can help
19.2 How we can help
19.3 The Clairvoyance of the Dead Person
19.4 Tibetan Buddhist Practices for the Dead
19.4.1 The Tibetan Book of the Dead
19.4.2 Ne Dren and Chang Chok
19.4.3 The Purification of the Six Realms
19.4.4 The Practice of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities
19.4.5 Cremation
19.4.6 The Weekly Practices
19.5 Helping the Bereaved
19.6 A Heart Practice
19.6.1 Invocation
19.6.2 Calling Out
19.6.3 Filling the Heart with Bliss
19.6.4 Helping the Dead
19.7 Keeping the Heart Open
19.8 Ending Grief and Learning Through Grief
20. The Near-Death Experience: A Staircase to Heaven?
20.1 The Darkness and The Tunnel
20.2 The Light
20.3 Similarities with the Bardo of Becoming
20.4 The Délok: A Tibetan Near-Death Experience
20.5 The Message of the Near-Death Experience
20.6 The Meaning of the Near-Death Experience
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION (chapters 21-22)
21. The Universal Process
21.1 Revelations of the Bardo
21.2 The Process in Sleep
21.3 The Process in Everyday Life
21.4 The Energy of Delight
21.5 An Unfolding Vision of Wholeness
22. Servants of Peace
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