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 2f - The way we will be tormented within samsara, if we do not make an effort now

A person who has the freedoms and favors by the power of former goodness:

Whoever has the happy good fortune of the Dharma,
Having become a vessel of that precious spotlessness,
And yet does not hold its cooling rain of Dharma-amrita,
Will be competely destroyed by the torments of samsara.

While we have the precious human body, when the rain of Dharma falls, if we do not make ourselves into vessels or receptacles of it, we will only exhaust ourselves in suffering the torments of samsara.

The Generation Born in an Iron House (lcags kyi khyim du skyes pa’i rabs) says:

Even though the free and favored vessel was gained,
Since no drops of Dharma were received within it,
Now we shall roast in Hell-fire, so difficult to bear.
Long and excruciating pain will be our karma.

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