Steps to Liberation

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Steps to Liberation (T. thar ba'i them skas). A treatise by Jigme Lingpa on mind training (lojong) according to the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

This text is an expansion of a short text by Longchenpa, which is itself a commentary on a very short (one page) text by Garab Dorje.[1]

In this tradition of mind training, one trains in bodhicitta by contemplating the following seven topics:[1]

  1. impermanence
  2. fleeting and lasting happiness.
  3. the various circumstances that lead to death
  4. the pointlessness of all mundane endeavors
  5. the virtues of the Buddha
  6. the instructions of the guru
  7. non-conceptuality

Text

Full title

  • Steps to Liberation: Essential instructions on the common preliminary practice of the sevenfold mind training (T. thun mong gi sngon 'gro sems sbyong rnam pa bdun gyi don khrid thar ba'i them skas)

English translation

  • Steps to the Great Perfection: The Mind-Training Tradition of the Dzogchen Masters, translated by Cortland Dahl (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2016)

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cortland Dahl, Steps to the Great Perfection.

Sources

  • Dahl, Cortland (2018), Steps to the Great Perfection: The Mind-Training Tradition of the Dzogchen Masters, Shambhala 
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