Blending Verbal Perspectives

I am fascinated by the teaching treasured by Nyoshul Khenpo...:

Good in the beginning (Arousing Bodhicitta)
Good in the Middle (Practicing Naked Awareness)
Good in the End (Sealing the Merit with Emptiness)

...compared to Lama Surya Das,
abstracting the theme of this teaching from a similar Dzogchen perspective as:

Conceptual Practice (Arriving & Intensifying)
Non-Conceptual Practice (Relaxation)
Conceptual Practice (Intensification)

Aside: Kalu Rinpoche taught that mantra work [conceptual practice] empowers/energizes the naked awareness [non-conceptual] practice.

Personal Reminder: It would be good to list other conceptual intensification practices. In particular, I should look at Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche's "Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness" to integrate the Madyamaka perspective into the frame above.