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 2a.3 - Establishing it by abandoning the five obscurations

Moreover:

Controlled in mind and body, they love to stay in solitude.
They abandon the love of chatter, and being drowsy or lazy.
Neither hostile nor resentful, they have little to ask of others.
In such a way, samadhi will quickly be established.

Uncontrolled body and mind, becoming shamelessly mean spirited, contradict the path of peace. Living in cities and such places where many people gather, we will be harmed. Delighting in abiding in drowsiness, dullness and laziness, if nothing else will be established, why even mention samadhi? It is incompatible with such things. As for hostility and resentment, since they distract the mind, vipashyana will be interrupted. A place of relationships with many people and dear friends, since it is also a place of passion and aggression, is contradictory to samadhi. Those whose samadhi is damaged by delight in talking will obscure and hinder its arising. They will also give birth to much hostility and contention. If these hindrances are abandoned, samadhi will naturally develop, and the Dharma of the Victorious One will be grasped. The former text says:

Without preoccupations, delighting in solitude,
With few acquaintances, giving up sleep and laziness,
Neither depressed or manic, body and mind are controlled.
By that it is not hard to gain supreme samadhi

The Wisdom Mudra (ye shes phyag rgya) says:

The body far from crowds, completely devoted to peace,
As graceful as a deer, will be the cause of non-dwelling.
Like air within the sky, without desiring attainment,
So we will grasp the Dharma of the Victorious One.

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