The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: 3 by Trungpa Chogyam & Carolyn Rose Gimian

Author:Trungpa, Chogyam & Carolyn Rose Gimian [Trungpa, Chogyam]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2010-09-28T03:00:00+00:00

MAHAMUDRA UPADESA

ORAL INSTRUCTIONS ON MAHAMUDRA GIVEN BY SRI TILOPA TO NAROPA AT THE BANKS OF THE GANGES RIVER

Translated from the Sanskrit into Tibetan by Chökyi Lodrö (Chos kyi bLo gros), Marpa the Translator

Homage to the Coemergent Wisdom!1

Mahamudra cannot be shown;

But for you who are devoted to the guru, who have mastered the ascetic practices

And are forbearant in suffering, intelligent Naropa,

Take this to heart, my fortunate student.

Kye-ho!2

Look at the nature of the world,

Impermanent like a mirage or dream;

Even the mirage or dream does not exist.

Therefore, develop renunciation and abandon worldly activities.

Renounce servants and kin, causes of passion and aggression.

Meditate alone in the forest, in retreats, in solitary places.

Remain in the state of nonmeditation.

If you attain nonattainment, then you have attained mahamudra.

The dharma3 of samsara is petty, causing passion and aggression.

The things we have created have no substance; therefore, seek the substance of the ultimate.

The dharma of mind cannot see the meaning of transcendent mind.

The dharma of action cannot discover the meaning of nonaction.

If you would attain the realization of transcendent mind and nonaction,

Then cut the root of mind and let consciousness remain naked.

Let the polluted waters of mental activities clear.

Do not seek to stop projections, but let them come to rest of themselves.

If there is no rejecting or accepting, then you are liberated in the mahamudra.

When trees grow leaves and branches,

If you cut the roots, the many leaves and branches wither.

Likewise, if you cut the root of mind,

The various mental activities will subside.

The darkness that has collected in thousands of kalpas4

One torch will dispel.

Likewise, one moment’s experience of luminous mind

Will dissolve the veil of karmic impurities.

Men of lesser intelligence who cannot grasp this,

Concentrate your awareness and focus on the breath.

Through different eye-gazes and concentration practices,

Discipline your mind until it rests naturally.

If you perceive space,

The fixed ideas of center and boundary dissolve.

Likewise, if mind perceives mind,

All mental activities will cease, you will remain in a state of nonthought,

And you will realize the supreme bodhichitta.5

Vapors arising from the earth become clouds and then vanish into the sky;

It is not known where the clouds go when they have dissolved.

Likewise, the waves of thoughts derived from mind

Dissolve when mind perceives mind.

Space has neither color nor shape;

It is changeless, it is not tinged by black or white.

Likewise, luminous mind has neither color nor shape;

It is not tinged by black or white, virtue or vice.

The sun’s pure and brilliant essence

Cannot be dimmed by the darkness that endures for a thousand kalpas.

Likewise, the luminous essence of mind

Cannot be dimmed by the long kalpas of samsara.

Though it may be said that space is empty,

Space cannot be described.

Likewise, though it may be said that mind is luminous,

Naming it does not prove that it exists.

Space is completely without locality.

Likewise, mahamudra mind dwells nowhere.

Without change, rest loose in the primordial state;

There is no doubt that your bonds will loosen.

The essence of mind is like space;

Therefore, there is nothing which it does not encompass.

Let the movements of the body ease into genuineness,

Cease your idle chatter, let your speech become an echo,

Have no mind, but see the dharma of the leap.

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