Ten Early Tantras of the Great Perfection: A Basket of Diamonds by Wilkinson Christopher

Author:Wilkinson, Christopher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christopher Wilkinson
Published: 2016-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

Teaching the Contemplation of What this Means.

Then the Blessed One, the All Good One, entered the equanimity of the samadhi that casts off doubt, and personally made a statement to himself:

We think of origins and applications that move,

But they are not real.

We let them be the way that they are.

Nobody sees the eight assemblies.[19]

The name of a sentient being does not own a sentient being.

Buddhahood is Buddhahood.

It is in the natural condition of every sentient being.

It is a self-originating thusness

That we do not get rid of or reject.

We use a method in which

We do not contemplate any appearing thing,

And we play in it.

This is not acceptable to everyone.

It is a Dharma that everyone rejects.

When those who have the five kinds of emotional problems

Or those who have done the five unpardonable acts

Enter into the path of total purity,

They will be received by the king of equanimity.

We do not give up anything,

Including women and all the rest,

But when we put the real meaning of the stories

Logically into our minds,

Call it the third samadhi,

And practice it as a philosophical conclusion,

We will have deviated into the transmissions of seeking and practicing.

This is a delusion.

We live in a land where bliss is effortless and spontaneously perfected.

Wisdom is the true heart of magnificent self-origination.

This is not to be visualized.

It does not move.

It is beyond all discovery.

We are totally present in our objects,

Just as they are,

For we are finished with effortlessness.

We are not born.

We do not stop.

Our state is like the sky.

There is nothing to show

By saying: “This.”

This is the embodiment of the single circle.

It has neither expansion nor contraction.

It is the holy path of freedom.

It is not an idea.

We do not conceptualize it.

It is beyond wisdom and methods.

It has no perimeter.

It has no center.

There is nothing that we may designate to be its heart.

It is uncontrived like the sky.

It is beyond the objects we talk or think about.

It is beyond the analogies

That use logic to scrutinize what things mean.

It is the heart of the Victorious One.

To point at the river of perfect enlightenment

By saying: “This,”

Is difficult to do,

For the heart of the Dharma,

The self-aware Bodhicitta,

Is the greatest.

To say: “As for the Bodhicitta,

It is like this,”

Makes our finding it

Into something that is extremely difficult.

This has no masculine, feminine, or neuter,

No color and no shape.

The true nature of every dharma

Is also like that.

This is the only thing to be proclaimed:

We do not dwell on any true nature,

For that would be a clinging to identifiers for real things.

When absence is absent,

We dwell in what is not absent,

Whether it be our own power or something else,

But this is not our clarity.

The proclamations of the Victorious Ones

On being free from works

Are not to be forced upon others,

But they may be introduced to it.

They will not be of the nature

To empty out the dominion of definitions,

But they will be engaged in just what is.

Our minds are developed in this.

We also attain our rewards through this.

One who practices this

Will only bring all the limitations of samsara

To their conclusions.

From The Fish Lies in Wait: The Bodhicitta, this is chapter six: Teaching the Contemplation of What this Means.

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