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 1 - How peace is attained

Now, according to the presentation of the Great Miracle, from the way of attaining peace and the divisions of the kayas , there is a brief explanation of the first.

At the time of the pure, ultimate wisdom of the path, that wisdom is gathered together as the continuity of the three realms to be abandoned. These realms have the aspects of grasping and fixation, which are of the nature of conceptual examination and analytic discernment:

By mind and mental contents together with alaya,
Entering into dharmadhatu, the time of the fourth,[1]
Space and wisdom are non-dual and of one taste.
Possession of the two purities then pacifies complexity.

The phenomena of motion producing mind and mental contents, included under the aspects of grasping and fixation, are at the level of the three realms. The Two Truths of the Essence of Wisdom (ye shes snying po’i bden gnyis) says:

Mind and mental contents are the three realms.
These thoughts are superimposed upon[2] phenomena.

According to that, the eight consciousnesses and alaya are pacified and dissolve in the luminous nature of mind, naturally pure dharmadhatu. At that time, that ground of primordial space and the wisdom of the things to be dissolved are non-dually mixed. Their one taste is ultimate dharmakaya possessing the two purities. The two complete purities are:

  1. Purity of the primordially undefiled nature
  2. Purity from incidental stains.

The Letter of the Drop of Amrita (spring yig bdud rtsi thigs pa) says:

Like water poured into water
And oil extracted by oil,
Are the simple suchness of knowables
Mixed with inseparable wisdom.

This is called “dharmakaya,”
The nature of all the buddhas.

Whenever there is a gap in the continuous entering of mental contents, there is the single taste of the great wisdom. The Prajñaparamita-sañcayagatha says:

Having burned away the dry firewood of knowables,
Is peace, the dharmakaya of the victorious ones.
Then there is no birth and there is no cessation;
Cessation of mind produces perception of the kayas .

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

The fourth division of time, in addition to past, present and future.

[2]:

or “exaggerations of.”

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