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 3 - Passing the pass into freedom from viewed and viewer

Moreover, the experience arises like this. When the conceptual mind of assertion and denial arises:

When anything is viewed, the viewer’s essence is lost.
Objects and the directions, when sought will not be found.
The seeker too is unperceived in simplicity.
Without an object of action, an actor does not exist.

Viewing this arising, when we try to reject the watcher and leave things as they are, while we are looking for something to reject, not only are there no directions, places, and objects; but the borderless, all-encompassing seeker is not perceivable either. There is no trace of anything we could affirm or deny, no reference points at all. As for the support, mind, being like space, the All-Creating King says:

Not existing, not realized, no vision of anything,
Naturally existing equanimity of non-thought.
As it is eternal, no mind of effort arises.
Mahasukha abides as the essence of all dharmas.

That is what encountering it is like.

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