The-Tibetan-Book-of-Living-and-Dying

Master, 69, 137-39; blessings of,
143-47; deaths of, 270-77;
and devotion, 139-43; as
meditation object, 69-71; and
path of Dzogchen, 170-71;
true, 132-34
Maudgalyayana, 98
Meditation, 12, 53; alertness and
relaxation in, 76-77; bardo of,
112; beginning prayer for,
61-62; Buddha and, 57-58,
60-61, 76; on compassion,
203-4; duration of, 80;
Dzogchen, 67, 68, 163-67;
ending prayer for, 61; experiences
in, 79-81; eyes open
during, 67-68; gaze recommended,
67; Good in the
Beginning, Good in the Middle,
Good in the End and,
60-61; hands, position for,
68; and inspiration, 84-85;
integration of, into action,
82-83; methods of, 65-66,
69-74; and mind, 56, 58-60,
74-75; and mindfulness,
62-63; mouth open position,
68; negativity, defusing and,
62, 64, 77, 78; obstacles to,
79-80; and ordinary life,
82-83, 351-53; peace in,
63-64; poem by Nyoshul
Khenpo and, 63; posture for,
66-68; purpose of, 60; taking
breaks, 81-82; thoughts and
emotions in, 77-79; three
sacred principles of, 60-62;
Tibetan saying and, 65; as
wisdom tool, 126. See also
Calm Abiding
Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare),
202
Merton, Thomas, 360
Michelangelo, 105
Milarepa, 12, 15, 21-22, 39, 40,
99-100, 130, 146, 362, 366
Milinda, King, 95
INDEX 431
Mind, 47-49; in bardo of becoming,
291-92, 296-99; bringing
home, 57-58, 63; continuity
of, 93-96; and death, 16-17;
enlightened, 13; ground of
ordinary, 265-67; impermanence
of, 27; looking in,
52-53; and meditation, 56,
58-60, 74-75; relax, 63-64;
release, 63; samsara and, 59;
Shantideva on, 59; training,
58-60; Western view of, 13.
See also Nature of mind
Mindfulness, 62-63. See also
Calm Abiding
"Mind in comfort and ease" posture,
68
Mipham, 20
Mö gü, See Devotion (mö gü)
Moment of death. See Death,
moment of
Montaigne, Michel de, 15
Moody, Raymond, 10, 24, 296,
322, 331, 332, 333
More, Sir Thomas, 191
Morse, Melvin, 327, 329, 338-39
Mother Luminosity, 166, 267. See
also Ground Luminosity
Mother Teresa, 54, 105, 212
Motoyama, Dr. Hiroshi, 237-38
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 93,
355
"Myth of Er" (Plato), 93
Nachiketas, 131
Nadi, See Channels (nadi)
Nagasena, 95-96
Nangya, See Buddhist (nangya)
Nature, 84
Nature of mind, 12, 47-49,
49-50; as Child Luminosity,
267; faults preventing realization
of, 50-51; introduction
to, 42-45; and wisdom of
ordinariness, 54-55. See also
Mind; Rigpa
Naylor, Freda, 30-31