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 - The brief teaching of suffering
After thus realizing the impermanence of life, in order to teach the suffering intrinsic to samsara, regarding the way of things as it was discussed above:
These impermanent dharmas of the three realms of samsara,
Unremittingly changeable, involve the extremest sufferings.
With sufferings of suffering, change, and composite nature,
All beings of its six cities are living in misery.
The Sutra of Instructions to the King says:
O great king, this samsara is change. This samsara is impermanence. This samsara is suffering.
The three kinds of suffering are the suffering of suffering, the suffering of change, and the sufferings of the composite. With these, the six kinds of sentient beings abide and sink in the ocean of samsara.