Part 2a - The ways with and without appearance

Now we should enter into the completion stage:

The completion stage is either with or without appearance.
With development gathered in, as clouds dissolve in the sky,
It is placed in an apprehensionless state without appearance.
That is called the completion^[1] of that developing stage
From the time it appears, its nature is free from complexity.

By the stages of undistracted meditation with appearance,
Beginners should stop attachment to the developing stage.
For appearance thus producing an antidote
to attachment to appearance as being truly existing.

Stabilized ones should stop attachment to completion.
Emptiness is the remedy for fixated characteristics.

Thus, having gathered in gradually there are naada and bindhu, and very fine

life letters like a hundred divided hairs of a horse’s tail. ??? As for its dissolving into Dharmadhatu and resting there, Beginners meditate in the completion stage without appearance, so that conceptual attachment to the things and individualizing marks of the developing stage is overcome.

From the developing stage, by resting in undistracted mind without emanation or gathering, there is the arising of the wisdom of bliss, clarity, and non-thought, the completion stage with appearance. As the object of meditation for those with a little familiarity or stabilization, it produces the antidote to one-sided attachment to emptiness.