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 - Passing the pass into the nature as limitless as space

As for passing the path into the single nature, as limitless as space:

Within the primordial purity of the nature of mind,
Without abandoning, antidotes, separation or attainment,
Objects of meditation are superfluous.
Without outer grasping or inner fixation, abandon clinging.
Without any grasping of “this,” let us cut through attachment.
Without success or failure, abandon hope and fear.

Within the primordially enlightened nature of mind, there is now nothing to purify, so attachments of accepting and rejecting are unnecessary. The All-Creating King says:

Kye mahasattva,
If one wants the establishment of one’s own mind,
Since it is established by being without desire,
Rest within the equanimity of non-thought.
Naturally rest in the realm that neither accepts or rejects.
Naturally rest in the state that is naturally motionless.

Since outer and inner grasping and fixation do not exist at all, do not cling. The same text says:

With nothing inside or outside, this is dharmadhatu.
The aspect that is deep has no conceptual objects.

Since within unity there is nothing to call “this,” destroy the coils of attachment. The same text says:

As for mind, the nature of it is suchness.
Therefore all the dharmas are established as suchness.
Do not fabricate anything in that nature of suchness.

Also it says that there are neither success nor failure:

There is nothing to succeed at, nothing to fail in producing.
Do not be caught within the trap of hope and fear.

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