Lada: Certainty

Thoughts are like clouds,
invoked by the rocks of belief.

Drop clinging to opinions,
and the sky becomes blue.

The fresh wind of certainty,
clears the clouds of doubt.

Utilizing thoughts: Lada

When we practice looking into the ungraspable
nature of thoughts, we no longer need to be
scared of any thought that might occur;
we do not have to struggle with thoughts
nor be caught up in our thinking.

Instead, by recognizing its essence,
the thinking itself is used as the path.

That is the principle of

utilizing

thoughts

Elevating dualistic thoughts to the path

A transient thought arises from the unborn emptiness.

It embodies the nature of all-embracing reality.

These two have been inseparable from the beginning.

I therefore proclaim the two to be of one flavour.

Virupa: Lada

Where the mind detaches itself from discrimination
there is neither defilement nor doubt;

Where mind perceives intrinsic reality directly,
there is no duality of knowledge and knower.

Savari: Non-meditation

In the discipline of quiescent mahamudra

there is nothing to meditate on, not even an atom.

Do not meditate,
for the perfect meditation

is to remain inseparable

from the state of non-meditation.

Tilopa: Lada

The nature of mind is neither modulated nor unmodulated.

Understand it to be of primal purity, beyond concepts.

By abstaining from cogitation or contemplation,

examination or analysis,

meditation or performance,

as well as from hope or fear,

the mental clinging to them will be pacified spontaneously

and the mind will attune itself

to the primordial intrinsic reality.

Lada: Determining the mind

Watch that which has been determined

without any mental activities.

Space is designated as empty,

yet its exact nature cannot be verbalized.

Similarly the mind is designated as luminously clear,

yet its exact nature is empty, with no ground for definition.

Thus the self-nature of mind is and has been

from the very beginning like that of SPACE.

Tilopa

Lada: Biting

Just right here,
just right now.

One taste,
many flavours.

Pure awareness,
empty mind.

Piercing appearances,
unveiling reality.

No more doubts,
only certainty.

Virupa: Lada

By detaching itself from the duality
of observation and observer,
the mind achieves self-liberation
from division;

By thus smashing the contrived practitioner,
the mind frees itself from striving and seeking;

By discarding the concern for the fruit
of inner development, the meditator
unshackles himself from hope and fear;

By eliminating the sense of the "self" or the "I",
the mind emerges victorious in its battle
against inner adversaries;

By dismantling the clinging to substance,
the meditator will gain liberation from
both samsara and nirvana.

Lada: Time for Transcending

This is when the practitioner´s dense meditation
moods of bliss, clarity and nonthought have
dissolved. His mind has cleared up to such an extent
that the meditation training in space-like aware
emptiness has become constant. Or it is when
the daytime experience for the most part has
become constant. When you thus find a decisive
certainty within thoughts and perceptions it
is the time for transcending.

If the transcending takes place too soon, you
will miss the real experience and instead become
an insensitive intellectual spouting forth the words
of a "high view".

If too late, even though there may be many
fortunate people who dissolve their clinging
to experiences and are liberated into steady
realization, others may intensify their clinging
to noble thoughts and conviction and get
involved in various levels of virtuous activities.

Lada: Transcending

Now cast away all concerns about meditator and
meditation object, experiencer and object of experience,
the realizer and what is realized. Abandon all aims
such as holding notions about whether or not "this
is it" and the urge to meditate and be mindful.
Without even the intention "I should not keep
anything in mind", simply allow your ordinary
mind, plain and uncontrived, to be as it
naturally is.