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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
112 ways to sit still · Kashmir Shaivism, 8th c.
139 readings
The question · 23 verses
- Having Heard Everything · Vijnana Bhairava 1
- Still Not Settled · Vijnana Bhairava 2
- Praise Before the Answer · Vijnana Bhairava 7
- Like a Conjurer's Trick · Vijnana Bhairava 9
- Teaching for Confused Minds · Vijnana Bhairava 10
- Fullness Beyond Thought · Vijnana Bhairava 15
- Who Worships Whom · Vijnana Bhairava 16
- Asking for the Doorway · Vijnana Bhairava 23
The breath · 9 dharanas
- Fullness at the breath's turning · Vijnana Bhairava 24
- Resting in both spaces · Vijnana Bhairava 25
- Neither going nor entering · Vijnana Bhairava 26
- Stillness at breath's end · Vijnana Bhairava 27
- A ray thinning away · Vijnana Bhairava 28
- Lightning climbing the wheels · Vijnana Bhairava 29
- Twelve steps of letting go · Vijnana Bhairava 30
- Crossing at the brow · Vijnana Bhairava 31
- Where Two Breaths Meet · Vijnana Bhairava 64
Sound and the letter · 8 dharanas
- The sound that never stops · Vijnana Bhairava 38
- Emptiness after the sound · Vijnana Bhairava 39
- Both edges of a letter · Vijnana Bhairava 40
- Strings played long · Vijnana Bhairava 41
- Sound ending in emptiness · Vijnana Bhairava 42
- The Open Sound A · Vijnana Bhairava 90
- Resting on the Final Release · Vijnana Bhairava 91
- The Name Said Unbroken · Vijnana Bhairava 130
Emptiness · 16 dharanas
- Peacock feather eyes · Vijnana Bhairava 32
- Space in every direction · Vijnana Bhairava 43
- Back and root together · Vijnana Bhairava 44
- Back, Root, Heart Empty · Vijnana Bhairava 45
- One Moment, Whole Body · Vijnana Bhairava 46
- Sky Filling the Flesh · Vijnana Bhairava 47
- Skin as a Wall · Vijnana Bhairava 48
- Everything Becomes Empty · Vijnana Bhairava 58
- Gaze Into the Pot · Vijnana Bhairava 59
- Gaze on empty space · Vijnana Bhairava 60
- Gazing at Clear Sky · Vijnana Bhairava 84
- Everything Melting into the Head · Vijnana Bhairava 85
- Dwelling in the dark night · Vijnana Bhairava 87
- Closed eyes, a form spread · Vijnana Bhairava 88
- Sky Without Walls · Vijnana Bhairava 92
- Mind Placed in Outer Space · Vijnana Bhairava 128
The body · 19 dharanas
- Thought Dissolving on Anything · Vijnana Bhairava 33
- Mind Set Inside the Skull · Vijnana Bhairava 34
- A Thread in the Middle · Vijnana Bhairava 35
- The point behind closed eyes · Vijnana Bhairava 36
- A spark in the heart · Vijnana Bhairava 37
- Inside the Closed Lotus · Vijnana Bhairava 49
- The Twelve-Finger End · Vijnana Bhairava 50
- Casting the Mind Outward · Vijnana Bhairava 51
- Burning the Inner City · Vijnana Bhairava 52
- Subtler Than the Body · Vijnana Bhairava 54
- Full and Faint Power · Vijnana Bhairava 55
- Everything as Awareness · Vijnana Bhairava 63
- Awake at Sleep's Edge · Vijnana Bhairava 75
- Five Named Ways of Looking · Vijnana Bhairava 77
- Sitting on One Side · Vijnana Bhairava 78
- Space Under the Arms · Vijnana Bhairava 79
- Silent Ha, Open Mouth · Vijnana Bhairava 81
- Seat Without Support · Vijnana Bhairava 82
- Blocked sense, empty open · Vijnana Bhairava 89
Pleasure and feeling · 14 dharanas
- Filled With Your Own Joy · Vijnana Bhairava 65
- Joy rising at once · Vijnana Bhairava 66
- An ant's touch · Vijnana Bhairava 67
- Between fire and poison · Vijnana Bhairava 68
- Joy Settling Into Presence · Vijnana Bhairava 69
- Remembered Pleasure Alone · Vijnana Bhairava 70
- Great Gladness, Long Awaited · Vijnana Bhairava 71
- Delight in Eating and Drinking · Vijnana Bhairava 72
- Song Becomes the Listener · Vijnana Bhairava 73
- Wherever the Mind Rests · Vijnana Bhairava 74
- Watching a Wish Rise · Vijnana Bhairava 96
- Who Is Left Over · Vijnana Bhairava 97
- Stilling the Storm Moments · Vijnana Bhairava 101
- Sudden Jolts Open It · Vijnana Bhairava 118
Looking at the world · 13 dharanas
- World Made of Imagining · Vijnana Bhairava 53
- Everything, Taken in Order · Vijnana Bhairava 56
- The Far Edge of Everything · Vijnana Bhairava 57
- Gaze on Dappled Light · Vijnana Bhairava 76
- A Fixed Gaze, Then Nothing · Vijnana Bhairava 80
- Slow Sway, Settled Mind · Vijnana Bhairava 83
- World as Painted Show · Vijnana Bhairava 102
- Waves of one water · Vijnana Bhairava 110
- Whirling Until Stillness · Vijnana Bhairava 111
- Closing the Two Doors · Vijnana Bhairava 114
- Looking Down the Well · Vijnana Bhairava 115
- Body Without Support · Vijnana Bhairava 119
- Withdrawing the Gaze Slowly · Vijnana Bhairava 120
Between two thoughts · 10 dharanas
- The middle between · Vijnana Bhairava 61
- Dropped, not replaced · Vijnana Bhairava 62
- Awareness at a Pinprick · Vijnana Bhairava 93
- The Middle Between Two Pulls · Vijnana Bhairava 103
- Mind without support · Vijnana Bhairava 108
- When Support Gives Out · Vijnana Bhairava 112
- Eyes Held Open · Vijnana Bhairava 113
- Wherever the Mind Wanders · Vijnana Bhairava 116
- Awareness Through Any Sense · Vijnana Bhairava 117
- Wherever the Mind Goes · Vijnana Bhairava 129
Knowing who you are · 23 dharanas
- Outer Light Is Darkness · Vijnana Bhairava 86
- No Maker Within · Vijnana Bhairava 94
- Known Only by Its Parts · Vijnana Bhairava 95
- Fix the Mind on Knowing · Vijnana Bhairava 98
- Knowing Without an Owner · Vijnana Bhairava 99
- One Awareness, Every Body · Vijnana Bhairava 100
- Everywhere I Am · Vijnana Bhairava 104
- Knowing Without Borders · Vijnana Bhairava 105
- Alert Inside Ordinary Seeing · Vijnana Bhairava 106
- Another's Body As Yours · Vijnana Bhairava 107
- Firm certainty of being Shiva · Vijnana Bhairava 109
- Turning Away Through Devotion · Vijnana Bhairava 121
- Emptiness Inside Every Object · Vijnana Bhairava 122
- Purity Beyond Sorting · Vijnana Bhairava 123
- Nothing Apart From It · Vijnana Bhairava 124
- Same Toward Friend, Foe · Vijnana Bhairava 125
- The Middle of Likes · Vijnana Bhairava 126
- Whatever Cannot Be Grasped · Vijnana Bhairava 127
- I, Mine, This · Vijnana Bhairava 131
- Words Held to Meaning · Vijnana Bhairava 132
- The Conjuror's Net · Vijnana Bhairava 133
- Nothing Changes, Nothing Acts · Vijnana Bhairava 134
- Bondage Is a Reflection · Vijnana Bhairava 135
The closing · 27 verses
- The Doors of Sense · Vijnana Bhairava 136
- Knower and Known Are One · Vijnana Bhairava 137
- When the Four Run Out · Vijnana Bhairava 138
- One Hundred Twelve, Briefly Told · Vijnana Bhairava 139
- Absorbed in Any One · Vijnana Bhairava 140
- Who Does the Worship? · Vijnana Bhairava 143
- Rite Belongs Outside · Vijnana Bhairava 144
- Sound That Sounds Itself · Vijnana Bhairava 145
- Meditation Without a Picture · Vijnana Bhairava 146
- Worship Is Resting · Vijnana Bhairava 147
- Fullness That Grows Daily · Vijnana Bhairava 148
- Offering Into Emptiness · Vijnana Bhairava 149
- Worship as Contentment · Vijnana Bhairava 150
- Entering Rudra's Power · Vijnana Bhairava 151
- Bathing in the Self · Vijnana Bhairava 152
- Giver and Receiver Are One · Vijnana Bhairava 153
- The Steady Wealth · Vijnana Bhairava 160
- Satisfied By the Essence · Vijnana Bhairava 161
- Heart of Every Power · Vijnana Bhairava 162
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