Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book Two: Vajrayana and the Great Perfection: 2 by Longchen Yeshe Dorje Kangyur Rinpoche & Jigme Lingpa

Author:Longchen Yeshe Dorje Kangyur Rinpoche & Jigme Lingpa [Kangyur Rinpoche, Longchen Yeshe Dorje]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2013-12-17T02:00:00+00:00

Wonderful displays and marvelous qualities

From nowhere else derive

But from the wisdom that relies on skillful means.

From here indeed do they arise.

[35] For such practitioners, thoughts arise in just the same way as for ordinary people. But it is not the mere thought, in the moment that it arises, that accumulates karma. It is through the continuous profusion of thoughts, and the clinging to them, that beings are fettered in samsara. If one’s thoughts are linked with the objects of the six consciousnesses, one is but an ordinary being, and one is propelled into samsara. The situation is different, however, when the duality of apprehending mind and apprehended object is eliminated. Objects of perception—forms, sounds, and so on—unceasingly arise, appearing like reflections in the stainless mirror of limpid consciousness. They are like stars reflected on the surface of the sea. They are the manifold display of all the bright qualities of the unceasing radiance of the senses. And yet, in the very instant of their arising, they are, by their very nature, empty. If the mind does not cling to, and examine, the sense objects, thinking of them as existing in a concrete manner (thus straying into the side of appearances)—in other words, if the mind is not attached to them as being “this or that”—the link between apprehending mind and apprehended phenomena, mutually related as subject and object, is severed in the state of object-free awareness. And as the state of thought-free, self-cognizing, primordial wisdom is preserved with a natural, uncontrived mindfulness, all the impure elements (earth, water, and so on), both outer and inner, are spontaneously cleansed. And the level at which phenomena are exhausted in ultimate reality is reached. Such practitioners need not wait long—for many lives—to attain the ground of unsurpassed primordial wisdom, following in the footsteps of the Victorious Ones. They attain it here and now.

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