Zurchungpa's Testament by Dilgo Khyentse & The Padmakara Translation Group

Author:Dilgo Khyentse & The Padmakara Translation Group
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2020-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

The root of liberation from samsara is having the correct view, and the correct view is the view that is free from the different extremes. If one clings to the appearance aspect, one falls into the extreme of eternalism; if one clings to the emptiness aspect, one falls into that of nihilism. We have to be free from clinging to either of these extremes of existence and nonexistence. This cannot be achieved by intellectual fabrication. The absolute nature can only be recognized by direct experience. It is not a question of trying to isolate an empty aspect of the mind and to fix one’s mind on it, or of isolating a clarity aspect of the mind and clinging to that. This sort of intellectual manipulation will never bring us to Buddhahood. Our meditation must therefore be free from the work of the intellect.

Do not be distracted from this state beyond all thought. And although there is no particular deity to meditate upon, no visualization details or attributes that you have to remember, no object for the mind to concentrate on, at the same time there must be no wandering, no lack of mindfulness. The close mindfulness and vigilance needed here are the same as those of someone trying to pull a thorn out of his skin—very carefully, without hurting himself. The real meditation is to simply remain in the absolute nature without obscuring the mind with all sort of intellectual constructs.

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