The Great Secret of Mind: Special Instructions on the Nonduality of Dzogchen Paperback by Tulku Pema Rigtsal (Author), Keith Dowman (Translator)

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The Great Secret of Mind: Special Instructions on the Nonduality of Dzogchen Paperback by Tulku Pema Rigtsal (Author), Keith Dowman (Translator)  chapter and contents detail is given below.

1. THE VIEW:

•  The nature of the physical world
•  The difference between “insider” and “outsider” meditation
• The fallacy of materialism: how the actuality contradicts  our assumption that our happiness and sadness depend upon material things
• The unreality of material things
• All things are figments of the mind
• How this body emerges from the karmically conditioned mind, and how we may anticipate the next life
• Distinguishing between impure outer appearances and the pure nature of reality
• All phenomena are unreal: all is just a delusive display of  mind
•  The method of eliminating belief in concrete reality, the  cause of suffering
• The ways of establishing the unreal world as magical illusion in the different levels of approach
• People ignorant of the illusory nature of their own unreal mind spin around in confusion
• Pure presence itself is buddha
• Illustrating the similarity of the world and magical  illusion
• The conviction that all is unreal accords with the sutras
•  An introduction to the secret of mind
• The dualistic nature of the intellect illustrated in the question-answermethod of the sutras
• Reasonable proof that buddha-nature exists in our mindstream
• When the natural perfection of mind is realized, there is  no need to apply an appropriate antidote to each karmic impulse
• Reconciliation of the view that the world is an empty,  unreal, subjective delusion with the scientific view that it is composed of atoms
• Sickness and physical pain are relieved by making a habit  of recognizing pure empty presence
• Mind is the root of all experience
• Knowing the whole world as figments of mind, undisturbed  at the timeof death, we are released in the bardo
• The creative and fulfillment phases are complete and  perfect in the space of basic empty presence
•  Why all beings are continuously bound in samsara
•  Delusion dissolves when we look at the essence of mind
•  The advantage of perceiving all things as mere conceptual labels
•  When pure presence is spontaneously recognized, its veils  naturally dissolve
•  Creativity is necessarily released in pure presence
•  Samsara never existed except as mere creative visions
•  In unconditioned pure presence, all buddha-potential is spontaneously manifest
•  When we abide in unchangeable mind, there is enormous  instant advantage
•  Uncontrolled emotion effects severe ecological damage
•  The Dzogchen process necessarily and naturally preserves the environment
•  Illustrating that all things arise out of the basis of mind
•  With a full understanding of the inseparability of appearances and emptiness, vision is naturally suffused by infinite purity
• A finger pointing directly at pure presence
• Reasons for the necessity to seek a rigzin-lama to introduce pure presence
• The potential of pure being and primal awareness is already manifest in basic pure presence
• Dispelling doubt about the unconditioned potentiality of pure presence
•  How to make the five poisons into the path itself
• Until discursive thought dissolves in spaciousness, karmic repercussions must be considered
• The benefits of hearing Dzogchen precepts

2. MEDITATION AS THE PATH:

•  First, conviction in the view is essential
• The reason for meditation
•  Disposition of meditation
•  Without meditation, even trivial events create severe suffering
• Meditation removes the attachment that is the root of suffering
•  The cause of manifest suffering is hope and fear
•  A short explanation of how to sustain the primal awareness of intrinsic presence
•  The place of meditation
•  The disposition of the body
•  How to sustain pure presence in brief
•  How to sustain pure presence in general
• The five faults that hinder concentration
•  The eight volitional antidotes to the five faults
• In unitary shamata and vipasyana, the nine mental states and the fivemystical experiences are correlated
• The simple, quintessential disposition
•  The method of practicing the essential pure presence in sessions
• The place of deviation into mystical experience
•  The distinction between mind and pure presence
•  The rigzin-lama’s personal instruction inspires meditation

3. CONDUCT:

•  An explanation of conduct
• The sin of ignorance of the continuity of reflexively liberating thought
• The preeminence of the mode of simultaneous arising and releasing of thought
• Meditation experience arises naturally in the mindstream
• When conduct consists of simultaneous arising and releasing, it is free of karma and its effects
• A categorical assertion that Dzogchen transcends cause and effect
• So long as dualistic perception obtains, heed karma and its effects
• The evidence of the accomplishment of unchangeable self- beneficial pure presence is equanimity in the face of the eight worldly obsessions
• The evidence of the accomplishment of unchangeable altruistic pure presence is spontaneous compassion and reliance on the laws of karma and their results
• Practitioners of the lower approaches are bound by strenuous effort
•  Conduct is characterized by the three modes of release
• The perspectives of both sutra and tantra agree in rejecting gross emotivity
•  Infusing conduct with the six perfections
•  Addiction to wealth leads to suffering
•  Everyone, high and low, has been a slave to attachment
•  The stupidity of suicide
•  With detachment, the mere possession of wealth and fame does no harm
•  Others are served best by an unselfish mind
•  When we know objects of attachment as delusion, the five sensory pleasures do us no harm
•  Those with pure presence are labeled “buddha,” while the ignorant are “sentient beings”
•  Three special features of intrinsic awareness
• Discursive thought necessarily dissolves into basic pure presence
•  Detachment from samsara, nirvana, and the path between them is the crux
•  “Hand-holding” instruction, in short

 4. THE ATTAINMENT:
The spontaneous manifestation of buddha-potential in basic pure presence
 Knowing the great perfection: buddha in one lifetime!
 Contemporary stories of physical dissolution and liberation in a rainbowbody

5. THE FOUR BARDOS:

•  For those of middling acumen: instruction about liberation in the bardo
• The bardo of life
• The bardo of the process of dying
• The actual practice in the bardo of the death process
•  Consciousness sublimation is among the five nonmeditation methods of attaining buddha