Saraha: the vanishment of the Self

So simple,
yet so difficult to attain.

Unless we walk along the path,
ordinary mind will remain hiddden.

One and the same for all of us:

BEYOND THE INTELLECT

Experiences and realization

This is bringing brass to mind as gold.

You think carrying this experience onto
the path will accomplish the ultimate.

That is like being attached to the bliss
of a dream.

You claim that the aggregates are impermanent
and bliss is permanent?

Fourth symbol: Beyond the intellect

Intellect, mind and mental appearances
have this very nature.

All the worlds appearing in their diversity
have this very nature.

All the varieties of the seen and the seer
have this very nature.

Attachment, desire, aversion and bodichitta
too, have this very nature.

Saraha: Nothing to negate or construct

There is no negating,no constructing,
and no apprehending: it is inconceivable.
The ignorant are bound by mental categories.
The inseparable, the coemergent,
is utterly pure.

Nonduality: Appearance and emptiness

First a thing, and in the end a nonthing-
neither is established;
likewise, there is nothing
other than these two.

There is no place to abide in the
beginning, middle or end.

For those whose minds are
obscured by continual concepts,
emptiness and compassion
are expressed in words.

Saraha: Nonattachment to what is untrue.

Just as an image appears
on the mirror´s surface,
where the ignorant look
in their lack of knowledge,
so the mind that throws
away the truth relies on many
concepts that are not true.

Saraha: Attachment

Bugs on excrement are attached to its smell
and think the pure fragrance of sandalwood foul.
Likewise, attached to dense ignorance,
the source of samsara,
individuals toss away the
trascendence of suffering.