Parting from the Four Attachments (ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ།) presents the quintessential mind training teaching of the Sakya tradition, the famous four-line instruction bestowed by Manjushri to Sakya Kunga Nyingpo. In December 2014, during the 32nd Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya, the 4th Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche taught this based on the well-known commentary composed by Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen. It was the very first public teaching gave by Jamgön Kontrul Rinpoche and was published in a book in 2015.

The ebook features a few photographs of Rinpoche taken during the Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya as well as an Appendix with The Aspiration for Mind Training composed by Jamgön Kontrul Lodrö Thaye.

The Root Text
The Teaching

History
Homage & Pledge to Compose
Refuge & Bodhicitta
The First Instruction: If You Cling to This Life, You Aren’t a Practitioner

Meditation 1: Precious Human Life & Death and Impermanence—Parting from Attachment to This Life The

Second Instruction: If You Cling to Samsara, You Don’t Have Renunciation

Meditation 2: The Sufferings of Samsara—Parting from Attachment to Samsara

The Third Instruction: If you Cling to Your Own Aims, You Don’t Have Bodhichitta

Meditation 3: Bodhichitta—Parting from Attachment to Your Own Aims

The Fourth Instruction: If You Have Grasping, You Don’t Have the View

Meditation 4: The Emptiness of All Interdependent Phenomena—Parting from Grasping

Dedication
Final Remarks

Appendix: The Aspiration for Mind Training