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still we have to make the meal ready and at this moment we can spoil everything. The complexity of the preparatory stage and all that is involved in it leaves no room for trans. cendental mystification, and the effort that is needed is the opposite of any cheap commercial recipe.
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The 'path' as a whole comprises five stages, a preparatory one, a stage of application which links all that has been done and experienced with the third stage, the 'path of seeing', which, in turn, merges into the 'path of cultivation' which is to live one's life in the light of the vision, and, finally, the 'stage of no-more learning', which means that we cannot act but as fully integrated personalities.
2 bDen-gnyis gsal-byed zla-ba'i sgron-ma, a detailed commentary on Kunmkhyen Jigs-med-gling-pa's Yon-tan-mdzod, by mKhan-po Yon-dga' Vol. I p. 274.
mKhan-po Yon-dga' seems to have been a contemporary of gZhan-dga' (1871-1927). He derives much of his information from the works of Klong-chen rab' byams-pa (1308-1363), the foremost rNying-ma-pa sage.
3 ibid., p. 274.
5 ibid.
4 ibid., p. 275. 8 ibid.
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9 ibid., p. 276.
10 For further details see H. V. Guenther and L. S Kawamura, Mind in Buddhist Psychology, Dharma Publishing 1975, pp. 118f.
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