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 ’...

Now the merit of these teachings is dedicated to sentient beings. As to how:

Thus, by the single taste of difference as non-dual,
All sentient beings will be completely liberated
From self and other, as well as grasping and fixation.
Exhausted here within the confusion of samsara,
By the perception and understanding that "this is it,[1]"
May mind this very day relieve its weariness.

This supremely wondrous merit, vast and non-dual, is like immaculate space. Those in the realms of beings, exhausted in samsara by confusion that grasps duality, have become far-distanced from this realization. However, as a hundred light rays of merit are emanated by those in the bhumis and divine realms, may those beings ease their weariness in the pleasure grove of the Buddha Bhagavat, built of flowers.

Realms of the gods adorn the sky above the earth,
Arising on red supporting feet of spotless light,
To these seven levels[2] of noble ones may beings cross.

May they have the vast wealth of the Buddha's treasury.
In their mountain peaks and forests may beings be delighted
With lands of herbs adorned with flowers and flowing water.
Because of having passed through this life successfully,
May freedom and its qualities be fully established.

As the moon, only beautified by being wreathed in clouds,
Makes white kumut lotuses stretch into space and bloom,
By this may the "good light rabbit[3]" of ultimate peace be grasped.
For beings without remainder, may there be the ground of life.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Realization of these teachings.

[2]:

The first seven bhumis.

[3]:

The moon, with its rabbit's image.

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