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 ’...

Now, from the extensive teaching of the eight means of resting, As for resting without many distractions of emanation and gathering:

In the unborn nature of mind, the pure state like the sky,
Events within the mind are not solidified.
But left to fade and vanish like a heap of clouds.
Meditate in what is, and eternally has been so,
The undistracted awareness of simplicity.

Rest thoughts and mental contents as they are in the sky-like nature of mind, watching them fade away like clouds. As for meditating in that undistracted state, the nature which is exemplified, the All Creating King says:

Kye! Now vajra being, meditate in suchness.
By realization, the view liberated as it is,
Distractionless resting in the nature is effortless.
All as it is is self-arising and frees itself.

Also:

This unborn nature of mind that is like the sky
Is unborn and ceaseless. Rest within that nature.

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