Muni's PlayIn the Dagpo Kagyu tradition as presented by Dagpo Tashi Namgyal, Mahāmudrā is divided into four distinct phases known as the four yogas of mahāmudrā (S. catvāri mahāmudrā yoga, Tibetan: ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི།, Wylie: phyag rgya chen po’i rnal ‘byor bzhi).
They are as follows:
| Yoga | Sanskrit | Tibetan | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-pointedness | एकाग्र (ekāgra) | རྩེ་གཅིག་ (rtse gcig) | Focused, unwavering attention. |
| Simplicity | निष्प्रपञ्च (niṣprapañca) | སྤྲོས་བྲལ་ (spros bral) | “Free from complexity” or “not elaborate.” |
| One taste | समरस (samarasa) | རོ་གཅིག་ (ro gcig) | The equality of all phenomena. |
| Non-meditation | अभावना (abhāvanā) | སྒོམ་མེད་ (sgom med) | The state of not holding to either an object of meditation or to a meditator. Nothing further needs to be ‘meditated upon’ or ‘cultivated’ at this stage. |