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 2c.1 - The great perfection beyond accepting and rejecting

A third meaning :

As for the limbs of the essence of practicing non-duality.
This is the state of the great perfection, where all is of equal taste.
Accepting and rejecting are things that should not be done.
Cast away attachment to objective reference points.
Attachments to the grasper are formations of samsara.
Without fixated objects, as it is in space,
There is no bondage and also there is no liberation.

The essential nature is beyond effort and establishing and accepting and rejecting, like space. Realizing this is the view. Not being distracted from this is meditation. Therefore, aware that this meditation is beyond existence and non-existence, accepting and rejecting, and hope and fear, attain stability by meditating in this samadhi.

Here there is no thought of improvement, still less of doing any other meditation. The All-creating King

says:

Having desire for bliss is the sickness of desire,
By not desiring bliss, bliss will be received.
By establishing buddhahood, there is no establishment.
The nature that need not be sought is spontaneously present.
Do not conceptualize, and the nature will need no seeking.

Also:

Kye mahasattva,
If you want to establish the nature of your own mind,
As it is self-established, when you are without desire,
Don’t try to establish the equanimity of non-thought.
Rest in the sphere of the nature that does not accept and reject.
Naturally rest in the state of natural motionlessness.

As for mind, the essence of it is suchness itself.
All of the dharmas, likewise, are established as suchness.
Do not fabricate anything in the state of suchness.
Do not establish anything other than the essence.
If it is sought, that buddha-space will not be found.

It is already made. You need not make it now.
It is already established. No need to do it again.
Meditate in non-thought. Don't realize anything.

If fixation and attachment exist, we are not liberated from samsara.

The Song of the Oral Instructions of the inexhaustible Treasury (mi zad pa’i gter mdzod man ngag gi glu) says:

If the mind of yoga is drunk with the poisons of hope and fear,
Co-emergent wisdom will be bound in place.[1]

Having no reference point, we go beyond all bondage and liberation. The same text says:

The ultimate vajra mind has neither hope nor fear.

Even going to Hell, we will not suffer there.
Even in fruition, there is no more to gain.

Having abandoned help and harm by pleasure and pain,
By good and evil actions, these will not grow and diminish.

Wanting a better Buddha, besides this non-duality
As realization of wisdom, we should be labeled fools.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

It will not be realized.

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