Editing Mahamudra (section)

===Four yogas and five paths===
In 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'', {{bo|t=ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི།|w=phyag rgya chen po'i rnal 'byor bzhi}}). They are as follows:{{sfnp|Namgyal|Lhalungpa|2006|p=463}}

# one-pointedness (S. [[ekagrata|''ekāgra'']], T. རྩེ་གཅིག་ ''rtse gcig'');
# simplicity (S. ''niṣprapānca'', T. སྤྲོས་བྲལ་ ''spros bral''), "free from complexity" or "not elaborate;"
# one taste (S. ''samarasa'', T. རོ་གཅིག་ ''ro gcig'');
# non-meditation (S. ''abhāvanā'', T. སྒོམ་མེད་ ''sgom med''), the state of not holding to either an object of meditation nor to a meditator. Nothing further needs to be 'meditated upon' or 'cultivated' at this stage.

These stages parallel the [[Semde#Four Yogas of Semde|four yogas of Dzogchen semde]]. The four yogas of mahāmudrā have been correlated with the Mahāyāna [[Bhūmi (Buddhism)|five paths]] (S. ''pañcamārga''), according to [[Tsele Natsok Rangdröl|Tsele Natsok Rangdrol]] (''Lamp of Mahāmudrā''):

*[[Ngöndro|Outer and inner preliminary practices]]: the path of accumulation
*One-pointedness: the path of application
*Simplicity: the path of seeing and most of the path of meditation (bhūmis one through six)
*One taste: the last part of the path of meditation, most of the path of no-more-learning (bhūmis seven through nine)
*Nonmeditation: the last part of the path of no-more learning (tenth bhūmi) and buddhahood (bhūmis eleven through thirteen)

[[Dagpo Tashi Namgyal|Dakpo Tashi Namgyal]] meanwhile in his ''Moonlight of Mahāmudrā'' correlates them as follows:

*Outer and inner preliminary practices and one-pointedness: the path of accumulation
*Simplicity: the path of application
*One taste: the paths of meditation & no-more-learning
*Nonmeditation: the path of no more learning & buddhahood.

According to Je Gyare as reported by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (''Moonlight of Mahāmudrā''):

*One-pointedness: paths of accumulation and application
*Simplicity: path of seeing (first bhūmi)
*One taste: paths of meditation and part of the path no-more-learning (bhūmis two through eight)
*Nonmeditation: rest of path of no-more-learning, buddhahood (bhūmis nine through thirteen)

According to Drelpa Dönsal as reported by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (''Moonlight of Mahāmudrā''):

*One-pointedness: paths of accumulation and application
*Simplicity: path of seeing (first bhūmi)
*One taste: paths of meditation and no-more-learning (bhūmis two through ten)
*Nonmeditation: buddhahood (bhūmis eleven through thirteen)