An Outline to Practices on Living and Dying

Herein outline to editorial guide on application of practices within:

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
By Sogyal Rinpoche

Taken from full outline to text

—Practice of Mindfulness
5. Bringing the Mind Home
5.2 The Heart of Meditation (59-61)
5.3. The Practice of Mindfulness (61-62)
5.5. Natural Great Peace (62-63)
5.6 The Posture (65-68)
5.7. Three Methods of Meditation (68-72)
5.7.1. Watching the Breath
5.7.2. Using an Object
5.7.3. Reciting a Mantra
—Guru Yoga
9. The Spiritual Path
9.6. Guru Yoga: Merging with the Wisdom Mind of the Master (143-149)
9.6.1. Invocation
9.6.2. Maturing and Deepening the Blessing
9.6.3. Empowerment
9.6.4. Resting in the Rigpa
—Training of the Dzogchen Path (View, Meditation, Action)
10. The Innermost Essence
10.1 The View (152-159)
10.2 Meditation (159-163)
10.3 Action (163-167)
—Tonglen Practice
12. Compassion: The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel
12.2 How to Awaken Love and Compassion (195-202)
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
12.4. The Preliminary Tonglen Practice (202-204)
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 (204-206)
—Phowa Practice
13. Spiritual Help for the Dying
13.4. The Essential Phowa Practice (214-217)
13.4.1. Practice One
13.4.2. Practice Two
13.4.3. Practice Three
14. The Practices for Dying
14.5. The Practices for Dying (229-231)
14.6. Phowa: The Transference of the Consciousness (231-235)
14.7. The Grace of Prayer at the Moment of Death (236-237)
14.9. Leaving the Body (242-243)
Part 3: Death And Rebirth
—Tibetan Buddhist Practices for the Dead
19.Helping after Death
19.4. Tibetan Buddhist Practices for the Dead (304-309)
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

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