Third yoga: spark

VAST

CLEAR

EMPTY

ordinary mind

Mahakala: Strength

MAHAKALA

The wrathful face of compassion.

Karmic law in action.

The STRENGTH of spontaneous presence.

The POWER of MINDFULNESS,

protecting AWARENESS from delusion.

Self: Faking enlightenment

I can quote many masters,
I can fake spontaneity,
I can pretend to possess insight,
but while there is identification
with an I,
the great perfection of the mind
will remain hidden within confusion.

Garuda: Rigpa

Given spontaneous presence,
timelessly ensured and free
of hope and fear,
if you strive to achieve again and again,
you will see that there is nothing to achieve.

Nothing to achieve:
this is the fruition of
omnipresent awareness.

Longchenpa: Ati

Nowadays, those "elephants" who pride themselves on
being ati practitioners, allege that thought patterns,
stirring and proliferating, are awakened mind.

All of these fools are submerged in darkness,
far from the meaning of natural great perfection.

They do not understand even dynamic energy
or what arises from that energy,
to say nothing of the essence of awakened mind.

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.

The cave of Dawn: Beyond the intellect

Get in the dark cave of subconscious mind,
with the light of mindfulness,
and you will find out,
surprisingly,
that there is nobody
neither outside,
nor inside.

In fact,
there is no real difference
between outside and inside.

This, my friend, is the
cave of Dawn.

Now: Non-conceptual wisdom mind

In this very moment,
mixed up with memories
from the past,
and expectations for the future,
hides the little grain of

NOW

Let IT shine.

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

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

Non-attachment: Generosity

Prajnaparamita: A

Hidden in the midst of ritual,
you can find the formless technique.

Simple

Profound

Direct

Jigme Lingpa and the heart essence

From the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse

Homage to glorious Samantabhadra!

The true nature of things is naturally free of conceptual projections.

It does not exist, since even the victorious ones do not see it.

Yet neither is it non-existent, as it is the ground of all samsara and nirvana.

There is no contradiction here, for it lies beyond the realm of expression.

May all realize this Great Perfection, the true nature of the ground!

In essence it is empty, hence free from the limitations of permanence.

By nature it is clear, and free from the limitations of nihilism.

Its capacity unobstructed, it is the ground of manifold emanations.

It is divided into three, yet in truth there are no such differentiations.

May all realize this Great Perfection, the true nature of the ground!

Inconceivable and free of all superimposition, one-sided fixation

On things being either existent or non-existent completely dissolves.

The full import of this turns back even the tongue of the victors.

Without beginning, middle, or end, it is a great expanse of deep clarity.

May all realize this Great Perfection, the true nature of the ground!

Its essence is pristine, unoriginated, and primordially pure.

Whatever manifests is the expression of this unconditioned spontaneous presence.

Without perceiving them as other, realizing the great unity of awareness-emptiness,

One’s understanding of the ground will reach a point of culmination.

May there be no deviations and mistakes concerning this key point of the path!

Pure from the beginning, even the term “view” does not exist.

Aware of the original state, the sheath of meditation falls away.

There are no reference points, hence no need to restrain one’s conduct.

In the spontaneously present nature, this state of naked simplicity,

May there be no deviations and mistakes concerning this key point of the path!

Not falling into partiality towards positive thoughts or negative ones,

And without giving free rein to a state of indifferent neutrality,

Manifestation and liberation—an expanse unrestricted, unbridled, and spontaneously free.

Understanding that the nature is inherently devoid of needing to accept and reject,

May there be no deviations and mistakes concerning this key point of the path!

Like space, awareness is the universal ground and starting point.

Manifest ground spontaneously present, yet vanishing like clouds in the sky,

The mind radiates out, projecting outwards and then returning within

To the youthful vase body’s inner space, possessing six unique characteristics–

May all seize the throne of this majestic fruition!

From the very beginning, awareness itself is Samantabhadra.

Within it, all hoping for attainments dissolves into the sphere of reality,

The true character of the Great Perfection, beyond intentional effort;

The sphere of reality and awareness, the inner space of Samantabhadri–

May all seize the throne of this majestic fruition!

Utterly non-abiding–the nature of the Great Middle Way;

All-embracing and spontaneously vast–the state of Mahamudra;

Freed from limitations and wide open–the key point of the Great Perfection.

The virtues of the levels and paths fundamentally complete–spontaneously present inner space.

May all seize the throne of this majestic fruition!

This profound prayer, a summation of the seal

Of the quintessential vast expanse,

Was set down at the behest of the protector of the teachings,

The Rishi Rahula, who took the form of a monk.

To make meaningful the spread of the profound reality

And bring to perfection this prayer of interdependence,

I let loose this profound seal to the mad yogi of Kong.

Entrusting it to this hidden master of awareness

Who himself has been blessed by Akashagarbha.

May its benefit for beings equal the extent of space!

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.