Namo guru.
Gurus
and yidams, deities of the mandala,
Buddhas of the three times and
ten directions and your children,
Consider me with kindness,
Grant
your blessing that all my wishes be realized.
Sprung from the
snow, mountain of the pure actions and intentions,
Mine and those of
all sentient beings without limit,
May the river of virtue undefiled
by the three spheres
Flow into the ocean of the four bodies of
buddha.
As long as I have not realized this,
Through all my
life times, birth after birth,
May not even the words for defilement
and suffering be heard
And may I enjoy the prosperity of oceans of
happiness and virtue.
Having obtained this excellent free and
well-favored life
Along with faith, energy and intelligence,
Having
attended a worthy master and received the pith of the sacred
instructions,
May I practice the sacred dharma properly in all my
lives without interruption.
The study of scriptures frees one
from the veil of ignorance.
The contemplation of oral instructions
overcomes the darkness of doubt.
Light born of meditation illuminates
the way things are.
May the radiance of the three wisdoms increase.
The
significance of the ground is the two truths,
free from the extremes
of eternalism and nihilism.
The excellent path, the two
accumulations
free from the extremes of assumption and denial.
The
result obtained is the two benefits,
free from the extremes of
existence and peace.
May I meet the dharma which is free from error.
The
ground of refinement is mind itself, indivisible luminosity and
emptiness.
The refining, the great vajra composure of mahamudra.
What
is to be refined, the incidental stains of confusion.
The result of
refining, the unstained dharmakaya, may I realize it.
Confidence
in outlook is cutting assumptions about the ground.
The key to
meditation is maintaining that without distraction.
The supreme
activity is to exercise the sense of meditation in everything.
May I
have confidence in outlook, meditation and activity.
All dharmas
are projections of the mind.
As for mind, there is no mind; mind's
nature is empty.
Empty and immediate, mind appears as everything.
Investigating
it well, may I settle the basic points.
Appearances, which never
existed in themselves, have been confused as objects.
Awareness
itself, because of ignorance, has been confused as a self.
Through
the power of dualistic fixation I wander in the realm of existence.
May
ignorance and confusion be completely resolved.
It doesn't
exist; even buddhas do not see it.
It doesn't not exist; it is the
origin of samsara and nirvana.
No contradiction; conjunction, the
middle way.
May I realize the pure being of mind, free of extremes.
If
one says "it is this," nothing has been posited.
If one says "it is
not this," nothing has been denied.
Unconditioned pure being
transcends intellect.
May I gain conviction in the ultimate position.
Not
realizing it, one circles in the ocean of samsara.
Realizing it,
buddha isn't anywhere else.
"It is everything." "It isn't anything."
None of this.
Pure being, the basis of everything, may I see any
misunderstanding here.
Since appearance is mind and emptiness is
mind,
Since realization is mind and delusion is mind,
Since
arising is mind and cessation is mind,
May all assumptions about mind
be eliminated.
Unpolluted by meditation with intellectual
efforts,
Undisturbed by the winds of everyday affairs,
Not
manipulating, knowing how to let what is true be itself,
May I become
skilled in this practice of mind and maintain it.
The waves of
subtle and coarse thoughts calm down in their own ground.
Motionless,
the river of mind abides naturally.
Free from the contaminations of
dullness and torpor,
May I establish the still ocean of shamata.
When
one looks again and again at the mind which cannot be looked at,
And
sees vividly for what it is, the meaning of not seeing,
Doubts about
the meaning of "is" and "is not" are resolved.
Without confusion,
may my own face know itself.
Looking at objects, there is no
object, one sees mind.
Looking at mind, there is no mind, it is empty
of nature.
Looking at both of these, dualistic clinging subsides on
its own.
May I realize sheer clarity, the way mind is.
Free
from mental constructions, it is called mahamudra.
Free from
extremes, it is called madhyamika.
Everything complete here, it is
also called maha ati.
May I attain the confidence that, in
understanding one, all are realized.
The great bliss of
non-attachment is continuous.
Sheer clarity without fixations is free
of obscurations.
Passing beyond intellect, non-thought is naturally
present.
May these experiences continually arise without effort.
Attachment
to good and fixation on experience subside on their own.
Confusion
and evil concepts are cleared away in the realm of ultimate nature.
In
the ordinary mind, there is no rejection or acceptance, no separation
or attainment.
May I realize the truth of pure being, complete
simplicity.
While the nature of beings has always been full
enlightenment,
Not realizing this, they wander in endless samsara.
For
the boundless suffering of sentient beings
May overwhelming
compassion be born in my being.
While such compassion is active
and immediate,
In the moment of compassion, its essential emptiness
is nakedly clear.
This conjunction is the undeviating supreme path.
Inseparable
from it, may I meditate day and night.
From the power of
meditation come eyes and actual knowledge,
Sentient beings are
ripened and domains of enlightenment refined.
Aspirations for the
realization of all aspects of buddhahood are fulfilled.
May I
complete these three--fulfillment, ripening and refinement--and become
buddha.
By the compassion of the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the
ten directions
And the power of whatever pure virtue there may be,
May
my wishes and those of all beings
Be fulfilled as we ask in this
way.