FOUR YOGAS OF MAHAMUDRA
TULKU URGYEN RINPOCHE
The Four Yogas of Mahamudra are called One-Pointedness, Simplicity, One Taste, and Nonmeditation. The stage of fruition is realized when the dharmakaya throne of nonmeditation is attained.
One-pointedness, the first yoga of Mahamudra, has three levels: lesser, medium, and greater. One-pointedness, for the most part, consist of shamatha and the gradual progression through the stages of shamatha with support, and without support, and finally to the shamatha that delights the Tathagatas. During the process fixation gradually diminishes.
The next stage, Simplicity, basically means non-fixation. During the three levels lesser, medium and greater Simplicity, fixation falls more and more apart, While One-pointedness is mainly shamatha, Simplicity emphasizes vipashyana.
One Taste is the state of mind in which shamatha and vipashyana is united. Appearance and mind arise as one taste. One does not need to confine appearances to being there and consciousness to being here, but the dualistic fixation of appearance and mind mingle into one taste in the space of nonduality.
Dualistic concepts such as good and bad, pure and impure, pleasure and pain, existence and nonexistence, object to be accepted and rejected, adopted or avoided, as well as hope and fear: everything mingle as one taste, the royal seat of dharmakaya.
At this level there still remain some sense of enjoying the spectacle of one nature, one taste, but at the fourth stage, Nonmeditation, even subtle concepts of watcher and something watched, meditator and object of meditation, are dissolved within the space free from mental constructs.
Thus, the Dharmakaya Throne of Nonmeditation is attained. Dzogchen calls this stage the exhaustion of phenomena beyond concepts. Nothing needs to be meditated upon or cultivated; that is Dharmakaya.
At the time of One-pointedness don't fixate.
During Simplicity don't fall into extremes.
Don't cling to the taste of One Taste.
Nonmeditation transcends conceptual mind.
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