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 2b.2 - Resting in clear luminosity without disturbance

While resting in clear luminosity without disturbance:

We should let ourselves rest like a clear and vacant ocean,
Free from the turbulent waves of grasping and fixation.

Clear because mind does not arise, smooth because it is not discursive, be like an ocean resting where it is, clear and pure of conceptual disturbances and defiling thoughts. The All-Creating King says:

The samadhi of a clear and luminous ocean
Is not produced by word-dependent mind.
It is suchness pure of all disturbance.

Also:

When this is known, by resting within it undistracted,
Not engaging in effort, the mind does not train in antidotes.
Objects are not put aside, and mindfulness is not gathered.
Since anything that arises is itself the meaning,
Enter into the meaning of me, the doer of all.

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