The Bodhicitta Sutra: Ten Scriptures of the Great Perfection by Wilkinson Christopher

Author:Wilkinson, Christopher [Wilkinson, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christopher Wilkinson
Published: 2018-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

The Sutra that Puts Things into Order

Then again that Mahasattva

Spoke to the gathered hosts

On the commentary on the significance

Of the Sutra that Uses Three Transmissions

And Four Upadeśa Instructions

To Put Things into Order:

Kye!

O Gathered Hosts,

Now listen!

This is the transmission of the lineage of the ear canal.

One who is of the lineage of the ear canal,

Whoever he may be,

Will not travel toward the vajra reality of the All Good,

For such is the objective in which we have nothing to travel toward.

In this way,

Reality is present as a unity.

For this reason,

For anyone who is fit for it

I teach the reality that has no traveling,

And they will attain it.

As for the thusness of the heart-essence of the Bodhicitta,

It is the heart-essence from which all the Dharmas come forth.

From this heart-essence that is beyond all complications

An uncomplicated reality emerges.

This is a great wonder.

Thus did he speak on the lineage of the ear canal.

You may ask who it is that actually appears,

And how they do so.

Reality and our true minds are actually being taught.

The A and the beautiful Ta

Are described as being the body of the Dharma.

The Bodhicitta of our hearts is the body of the Dharma.

As for the aspects of the miraculous five heaps,

They are the elaborations of the branches of the eight consciousnesses.

As for the field of practice

For everyone in the three realms of the world,

The good things we desire in our five kinds of emotional problems

Have five aspects.

The profundities in the speech of the Buddhas of the three times

Are an unborn reality that has form, sound, and scent.

These profundities are spoken of by the Buddhas

Because they are unborn.

Thus did he teach us.

In this same way,

The upadeśa instructions for putting things into order

Are that the objectives of all Buddhas and sentient beings

Are just like realities that do not move.

We have nothing to do,

So this is the Great Perfection of liberation.

In it we have no work or action,

And no quest or practice,

So this is described as being liberation.

This self-originating wisdom

That has no causes or conditions

Is a natural presence that we do not seek,

So it is the liberation of the self. [20]

We are liberated by having nothing to search for,

So we teach this to others.

So did he teach us.

In this same way,

The four kinds of upadeśa instructions

Are upadeśa instructions on the Bodhicitta.

The sorrows of the six classes of living beings

And their five kinds of emotional problems

Are the true nature of our heart Bodhicitta.

We are completed in the bodies, speech, and minds

Of the Buddhas.

We encompass the bodies, speech, and minds

Of sentient beings.

We play within the body and the wisdom

Of the Buddhas of the three times.

The sentient beings of the three realms

Engage in the five poisons in their own faces.

Just as this heart of the Bodhicitta

Does not move within the demarcations of real things,

There is the analogy that in our true natures,

Which are like the sky,

We encompass everything,

And we dwell on what seems to be the end of the sky.

So he spoke.

These are the upadeśa instructions on the Bodhicitta.

So in this way there are upadeśa instructions for our unions.

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