The Great Chariot
by Longchenpa | 268,580 words
A Commentary on Great Perfection: The Nature of Mind, Easer of Weariness In Sanskrit the title is ‘Mahāsandhi-cittā-visranta-vṛtti-mahāratha-nāma’. In Tibetan ‘rDzogs pa chen po sems nyid ngal gso’i shing rta chen po shes bya ba ’...
Part 4 - The purpose of doing three recitations of that ritual
The first arouses the bodhicitta of aspiration
The second arouses the bodhicitta of entering.
By the third these two become stable and are purified.
The Ocean Cloud (rgya mtsho sprin) says:
By the first, second, and third recitations, aspiring, entering, and both are made stable and excellent.
Aspiring and entering arise with a single essence and are not different things. Though in the ritual they are joined as if they were different, and three different characteristics arise from the three recitations, they are not different in essence. This is because in nature they are in a single mind, at a single time, and with a single action. The Bodhisattvabhumi says:
Since these two, aspiring and entering, are inseparable in nature, they should be known to constitute a single action to produce benefit for others and not to be different in nature.