Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary)
by Gyurme Dorje | 1987 | 304,894 words
The English translation of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, including Longchenpa's commentary from the 14th century. The whole work is presented as a critical investigation into the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, of which the Guhyagarbhatantra is it's principle text. It contains twenty-two chapters teaching the essence and practice of Mahayoga, which s...
Text 19.13 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 19.13]
If one maintains the commitment of sameness
Which unites in sameness,
One will obtain the Great Perfection of sameness.
But if one transgresses it, one will not obtain Buddha-hood. [13][Tibetan]
mnyam-la mnyam-par sbyor-ba-yi /
mnyam-pa'i dam-tshig-la gnas-na /
mnyam-rdzogs chen-po thob-'gyur-bas /
'das-nas sangs-rgyas ma-yin-no / [13]
Commentary:
[It has two parts, of which the former concerns the benefits for one who keeps them. (It comments on Ch. 19.13):]
This great commitment of sameness (mnyam-pa'i dam-tshig) is the nature which unites (mnyam-par sbyor-ba-yi) one through the skillful means of the path and profound discriminative awareness in (la) the truth that all things are sameness (mnyam) in the primordial Buddha-hood of Buddha-body and pristine cognition. If one maintains (-la gnas-na) it, one will obtain (thob-'gyur) Buddha-hood, the Great Perfection (rdzogs-pa chen-po) spontaneous in its attributes of sameness (mnyam), where the resultant three Buddha-bodies are without conjnuction or disjunction. Therefore this commitment is indeed to be guarded. But (-bas) if one transgresses this ('das-na) commitment, one will not obtain Buddha-hood (sangs-rgyas ma-yin-no). So it is not to be transgressed, just as one finds happiness by maintaining the laws of a king, but is punished when one transgresses them.
[The latter, the retribution exacted for degeneration (of the commitments), has two aspects.]
[The first concerns the harm which degeneration and obscuration bring to others when the defects of degeneration occur in the basic commitments. (It comments on Ch. 19.14):]
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