Homage to Total Good.
Homage
to
these strange and marvelous dharmas,
naturally-arrived-at
from beginningless time;
to this
self-engendered full knowledge,
Sheer Luminosity
Bodhicitta;
to this unmoving,
undiffusive treasury,
source of all
appearances/becoming,
material/vital,
sangsara/nirvana.
Listen
attentively as I explain these marvelous total vastnesses:
the peak of all
peaks of Vehicles —
receptive centre
of sun, moon & King of Mountains;
the Sheer
Luminosity naturally-arrived-at —
receptive centre
of Vajra Heart;
the unsought,
unstriven for —
receptive centre
of nature as it lies.
• • •
CHAPTER
ONE
NIRVANA
AND SANGSARA HAVE NEVER MOVED FROM THE REALM
[. . .and the totality of dharmas has never moved from
the continuity of the sky-like Great Completion.]
Out of the naturally-arrived-at receptive
centre everything comes.
On what ground? It is substantially void, its nature
unimpeded.
No thing is arrived-at/existent. Every thing
appears.
While sangsara
and nirvana display themselves
from
the receptive centre of the Three Bodies,
still, they have
never moved from the Realm, the Dharma Proper,
Buddhafield
of Comfort.
˚
No things have
ever reverted from being ornaments of the
ALL
REALM—
the continuity of changeless space
(great
receptive centre of Mind Proper),
the receptive centre of compassion’s
miracles
(You
never know what role it will play.).
Objective and
subjective absorptions and projections
are
Bodhicitta’s special powers.
Since whatever
appears is no thing whatsoever,
marvelously
amazing, these miracles of dharmas!
˚
Inner and outer
comings and goings, all that appears in shapes,
are ornaments of
the Realm, appearing as a physical wheel.
All heard sounds
& languages without exception
are ornaments of
the Realm, appearing as a verbal wheel.
Memory,
awareness, flightiness, projections, misunderstandings, and thoughtlessness as
well
are
ornaments of the Realm, appearing as a mental wheel.
˚
The six classes of beings and the four
modes of birth
have moved not one iota from the Realm of
Dharmas continuity.
The worlds of appearances and becoming, the
six spheres of sense,
the subjective and objective realms,
are a great
vastness of Total Voidness.
“They seem to be
missing from the Realm of Dharmas continuity,”
says the way of
illusion. Baseless
warbling!
In just the way
they show themselves, they dawn as ornaments of the
Realm
of Dharmas.
˚
[Dharmabody.]
The by nature level and unbudging
Dharmabody that Bodhicitta is
is totally settled, self-Void,
untransformed and untransported
in the great continuity of the realm of
things seen and heard.
Hence all appearances are the continuity of
the
Dharma
Proper/self-engendered Full Knowledge
coiled up in a single, comfortable
receptive centre
unworked for,
unstriven for.
˚
[Perfect Assets Body.]
Self-displaying and immovable, its Perfect
Asset
is a nature naturally-arrived-at from
exactly the way it appears.
There is no fixing or transforming it.
It is by nature evenly distributed.
˚
[Emanation Body.]
The meaning behind these self-produced
phantom marvels
which have emanated by virtue of their
dawnings as role-playings
(without being
mixed up in the myriad things)
has never left their job of being
the
unemployed Total Good.
˚
[Body and Full Knowledge are
perfected in the Awareness continuity.]
While in Bodhicitta (which has no pitfalls)
itself
the unseekable Three Bodies are naturally
completed,
they are unmoved from the Realm,
naturally-arrived-at,
uncompounded.
While Body and Full Knowledge are a natural
completion of
Buddha-activity,
They are the Total Completion of the Great
Accumulation,
receptive centre
of the great Total Dawn.
˚
[The Buddhafield as receptive centre
of Awareness.]
Even though one were viewing the Dharma
Proper in the Realm of Dharmas continuity,
the totally naturally-arrived-at, the
unmoving, unchanging Field;
that knowledge would itself dawn
unimpededly as an ornament of the Realm.
Having done nothing, looked for nothing,
totally placed,
they’re like the sun and the sky it
illumines.
These
strange and marvelous dharmas!
˚
In this totally naturally-arrived-at Realm
womb
Sangsara is Total Good. Nirvana is Total Good.
In the Total Good receptive centre sangsara
and nirvana are totally lacking.
Appearance is Total Good. Void is Total Good.
In the Total Good receptive centre
appearance and Void are totally lacking.
Birth and Death? Total Good.
Pleasure and suffering? Total
Good.
The Total Good receptive centre has no
birth, death, pleasure and suffering.
Self and others? Total Good.
Eternalism and nihilism? Total
Good.
The Total Good receptive centre has no
self, others, eternalism or nihilism.
˚
Because we hold on to being and nonbeing,
we are bound to error.
How strange we want to attach appropriate labels
like ‘sangsara’
and ‘nirvana’
to something so dreamlike it won’t hold up!
˚
All is the great naturally-arrived-at Total
Good.
There has not been, is not, and will not be
any error.
The
mere word ‘becoming’ tells us we are beyond extreme statements on ‘being’ and
‘nonbeing’.
No
one has made an error about anything in the past.
Now
there is no error. No
error is to come.
This is the meaning behind, “The three becomings are
pure from the letter ‘A’.”
˚
[You don’t get anywhere by merely
being without error in regard to the word ‘illusion’.]
Since there is no
error, there is no errorless Dharma.
The totally
naturally-arrived-at, self-produced great Awareness
was, is and will
be unliberated.
A mere word has
never made anyone experience liberation in the past
and it will not
in the future. Bonds
are totally lacking.
It is a sky-like
purity; unbelittlable, with no
partial definitions.
This is the
meaning behind, “Absolutely liberated from the letter ‘A’.”
˚
[The
great vastness of the natural, level Realm does not experience the existence of
nirvana and sangsara.]
In brief,
out of the Realm
womb naturally-arrived-at and vast,
whether it be
sangsara or nirvana that arises
as
role-playing from the special powers,
still, there is
no experience of sangsara’s or nirvana’s existence
on
account of that arising.
Whatever dreams
arise through the special power of sleep
are
devoid of meaning;
so, spread
yourself out to the limit on the great, vast natural smoothness,
the
comfortable bed of Awareness.
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