Finding Comfort and Ease in the Nature of Mind

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Finding Comfort and Ease in the Nature of Mind (Tib. སེམས་ཉིད་ངལ་གསོ་, Semnyi Ngalso, Wyl. sems nyid ngal gso) is the first volume of Longchenpa’s Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease, a work within the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition. It is a profound and comprehensive presentation of the Buddhist view and path that combines a scholastic expository method with direct pith instructions designed for serious practitioners. The subject matter covers both sutra and tantra.

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Related Texts

Aside from the root text, there are three other texts on the same topic:

1. A Large Commentary called the Great Chariot.
རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སེམས་ཉིད་ངལ་གསོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཤིང་རྟ་ཆེན་པོ་, rdzogs pa chen po sems nyid ngal gso'i 'grel pa shing rta chen po
2. White Lotus Garland: A Summary of the Great Chariot
རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སེམས་ཉིད་ངལ་གསོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཤིང་རྟ་ཆེན་པོའི་བསྡུས་དོན་གྱི་གནས་རྒྱ་ཆེར་དབྱེ་བ་པདྨ་དཀར་པོའི་ཕྲེང་བ་, rdzogs pa chen po sems nyid ngal gso'i 'grel pa shing rta chen po'i bsdus don gyi gnas rgya cher dbye ba pad+ma dkar po'i phreng ba
3. Guided Meditative Instructions called The Excellent Path to Enlightenment (partially translated as 'Twenty-Seven Courses of Training in Dzogpa Chenpo' in Longchen Rabjam, The Practice of Dzogchen, translated by Tulku Thondup, Snow Lion, 2nd edition 1996, pages 303-315)
རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སེམས་ཉིད་ངལ་གསོའི་གནས་གསུམ་དགེ་བ་གསུམ་གྱི་དོན་ཁྲིད་བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་བཟང་, rdzogs pa chen po sems nyid ngal gso'i gnas gsum dge ba gsum gyi don khrid byang chub lam bzang

Translations

  • H.V. Guenther, Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Part 1: Mind, Dharma Publishing, 1975
  • Longchen Rapjampa, The Great Chariot: A Treatise on the Great Perfection, translated by Ives Waldo and edited by Connie Miller, Library of Tibetan Classics, Wisdom, forthcoming
  • Longchenpa, Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: Trilogy of Rest, Volume 1, translated by the Padmakara Translation Group (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2017)

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