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 1b.2c.iii - The divisions: The three actions of mind

Coveting finds another’s wealth unbearable.
Therefore it makes an attempt to make it into one’s own.
Related is longing for others’ glories, such as learning.

Malice is the angry mind that harms another.
Related is anger that does not want their benefit.

Wrong views include eternalism and nihilism,
Or the view that says that cause and effect do not exist.
Related are errors of glorification and denigration.

Inappropriately wishing that others’ belongings were ours is covetousness. Getting angry at the learning and so forth of others and wishing it were one’s own is related. Wanting to harm others is malice. Being unhappy and angry with peoples’ benefits is related.

Denigrating karmic cause and effect and falling into the extremes of eternalism and nihilism are wrong views. Exaggeratedly glorifying and denigrating the true Dharma, the spiritual friends who teach it, and others who are in accord with the Dharma is related.

The Abhidharmakosha says:

Coveting wrongly craves another’s wealth
Malice is hostility to beings.
Wrong views deny that there is good and evil

The commentary on the Examination of Beings says:

To be angry at learning and so forth and covet it, to be angry and displeased at others’ benefits, to disparage true spiritual friends, the Dharma and others are the related actions.

Though in this case denigration of Dharma and individuals are said to be the related action, the Prajñaparamita in Eight Thousand Lines says:

Subhuti, those who accumulate the karma of depriving others of the Dharma will be born as beings of the lower realms or among those who have fallen into wrong views. They will suffer among the beings of the great Hell, the Avici Hell. Having been contained in its fires for a kalpa, they will be born in the great Hells of other world systems. There too, when they have been contained in fire for a kalpa, it is taught that they will go to another, and so forth beyond measure.

The Sutra of the Miracle of Ascertaining Complete Peace (rab tu zhi ba’i rnam par nges pa cho ‘phrul gyi mdo) says:

For many kalpas their bodies
Will be of five hundred pagtse
Having five hundred heads,
Every head possessing
No less than five hundred tongues;

And every tongue with plows,
Five hundred and not less,
That are hotly blazing,
Will be repeatedly plowed,
All this because of the karma
Of the evil deed denigration.

The Jewel Heap Sutra says:

Kashyapa, If some individual says that I or someone like me who has grasped the Dharma and grasped the measure of individual beings, has not grasped the measure of the Dharma and not grasped the measure of individual beings, that individual will fall.

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