Four yogas

Four yogas (Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་, naljor shyi, Wyl. rnal 'byor bzhi) — four stages of attainment in the meditation practice of Mahamudra.

1. one-pointedness (Tib. རྩེ་གཅིག་, tsé chik; Wyl. rtse gcig), which establishes the state of shamatha
2. simplicity (Tib. སྤྲོས་བྲལ་, trödral; Wyl. spros bral), which is reached through the clear seeing of vipashyana
3. one taste (Tib. རོ་གཅིག་, ro chik; Wyl. ro gcig), when shamatha and vipashyana become one
4. non-meditation (Tib. སྒོམ་མེད་, gom mé; Wyl. sgom med) is reached when one goes beyond the mind, and beyond the concept of a meditator meditating, the level of Dzogchen.

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

• Sogyal Rinpoche, Myall Lakes, Australia, 21 January 2012
• Dokhampa Shedrub Nyima, Dharma Mati, Berlin, Germany, 10-13 October 2019
• Dokhampa Shedrub Nyima, London, UK, 19-20 October 2019

Further Reading

• Kalu Rinpoche, The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen, Khyentse Özer, Rigpa, London, 1990.
• Herbert V. Guenther, Meditation Differently, The Māhamudrā Approach: The Four Tuning-in Phases, 1992. HVG MD