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 ’...

When this co-emergent self-arising wisdom arises, from the viewpoint of the mind of the yogin:

Appearance and emptiness are an all-pervading unity,
Transcending all the extremes of existence and non-existence.
Samsara and nirvana are not conceived as two.
Knowing and its objects are of a single essence.
See these as neither equal or not with dharmata.

The inner and outer dharmin, the eight examples of illusion, and dharmata, the essence by nature unborn, are not different. This is seeing the overall unity of appearance and emptiness. The All- Creating King says:

Whatever appears is one within the state of suchness.
As for this unfabricated king of equality,
Realization of dharmakaya, arises from within.

The nature of mind beyond the extremes of existence and non-existence, the pure motionless luminosity of wisdom, arises as the non-dual play of samsara and nirvana. The same text says:

Pacifying beginning, middle, and end,
Pacifying samsara and nirvana,
With the spontaneous presence of great bliss,
By wisdom that is quite incomparable,
By its own power rising out of insight,

Dharmas will not arise as something other. At that time, knowable objects and the knower, mind, arise as the equality of non-dual wisdom. The same text says:

Both inner and outer are subsequently inner. This profound aspect has no conceptual objects.

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