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The Song of Mahamudra
by Tilopa
But for you, Naropa, earnest and loyal, must this be said.
One can break the yoke thus gaining liberation.
If with the mind one then observes the mind;
One destroys distinctions and reaches Buddhahood.
Nor do the distinctive thoughts floating through the mind.
Once the Self-mind is seen, Discrimination stops.
But neither by black nor white is space tinged.
From the Self-mind all things emerge;
The Mind by virtues and by vices is not stained.
The long eons of Samsara ne'er can hide the Mind's brilliant light.
expressed. Though we say "the Mind is a bright light," it is beyond all words and
symbols. Although the Mind is void in essence, all things it embraces and contains.
Shut firm the mouth and silent remain;
Empty your mind and think of naught.
Like a hollow bamboo rest at ease your body.
Giving not nor taking, put your mind at rest.
Mahamudra is like a mind that clings to naught.
Thus practicing, in time you will reach Buddhahood.
Precepts, and teaching from the Schools and Scriptures will not bring
realization of the Innate Truth.
For if the mind when filled with some desire should seek a goal,
it only hides the Light.
Awakening,
Cease all activity; abandon all desire; let thoughts rise and fall as they
will like the ocean waves.
One who never harms the Non-abiding nor the Principles of non-distinction,
upholds the Tantric Precepts.
Perceives the real meaning given in the Scriptures.
the prison of this world. This is the Dharma's supreme torch. Those who
disbelieve it are fools who ever wallow in misery and sorrow.
the Guru's blessing emancipation is at hand.
Alas, all things in this world are meaningless; they are but sorrow's seeds.
Small teachings lead to acts. One should only follow teachings that are great.
Royal Practice; the Path of No-practice is the Way of the Buddhas. 0ne who
treads that Path reaches Buddhahood.
Substance it has none. Grasp not the world nor your kin;
Cut the strings of lust and hatred; meditate in woods and mountains.
If without effort you remain loosely in the "natural state," soon Mahamudra
you will win and attain the Non-attainment.
cut the root of your mind and Samsara falls.
The strong light of the mind in but a flash will burn the veil of ignorance.
Whoever strives to practice Dharma finds not the truth of Beyond-practice.
One should cut cleanly through the root of the mind and stare naked.
One should thus break away from all distinctions and remain at ease.
acceptance and rejection.
Since the consciousness is not born, no one can obstruct it or soil it;
Staying in the "Unborn" realm all appearances will dissolve into the
ultimate Dharma.
All self-will and pride will vanish into naught.
The supreme Understanding transcends all this and that.
The supreme Action embraces great resourcefulness without attachment.
The supreme Accomplishment is to realize immanence without hope.
In mid-course, like the Ganges, it flows on slow and gentle;
In the end, it is a great vast ocean,
Where the lights of Child and Mother merge in one.
From: Teachings of the Buddha, Ed. Jack Kornfield
Nagarjuna's Mahamudra Vision
Homage to Manjusrikumarabhuta!
Whose mind is free of attachment,
Who in his compassion and wisdom
Has taught the inexpressible.
Then surely no cessation or liberation;
The Buddha is like the sky
And all beings have that nature.
But all is a complex continuum
With an intrinsic face of void,
The object of ultimate awareness.
Appears like a reflection,
Pure and naturally quiescent,
With a non-dual identity of suchness.
Where there is nothing at all,
And it conceives of emotional states -
Happiness, suffering, and equanimity.
The happiness of heaven,
The suffering of hell,
Are all false creations, figments of mind.
Old age, disease and death,
And the idea that virtue leads to happiness,
Are mere ideas, unreal notions.
By the devil he paints,
The sufferer in Samsara
Is terrified by his own imagination.
Thrashing and struggling about,
So beings drown
In the mess of their own thoughts.
Causes an experience of suffering;
Mind is poisoned by interpretation
Of consciousness of form.
With a mind of compassionate insight,
Remain in perfect awareness
In order to help all beings.
Freed from the web of interpretive thought,
Insurpassable understanding is gained
As Buddha, friend to the world.
The ultimate truth is always seen;
Dismissing the idea of beginning, middle and end
The flow is seen as Emptiness.
Empty and insubstantial,
Naked and changeless,
Eternally quiescent and illumined.
Dissolve upon waking,
So the confusion of Samsara
Fades away in enlightenment.
As eternal, substantial and satisfying,
Shrouding them in a fog of desire
The round of existence arises.
Yet commonly beings are conceived to exist;
Both beings and their ideas
Are false beliefs.
This birth into an illusory becoming,
Into a world of good and evil action
With good or bad rebirth to follow.
All things come to an end.
So there is nothing inherently substantial
And all things are utterly pure.
Full of delusive thought,
Can be crossed in the boat Universal Approach.
Who can reach the other side without it?
Colophon
The Twenty Mahayana Verses, (in Sanskrit,
Mahayanavimsaka; in Tibetan: Theg pa chen po nyi
shu pa) were composed by the master Nagarjuna.
They were translated into Tibetan by the Kashmiri
Pandit Ananda and the Bhikshu translator Drakjor
Sherab (Grags 'byor shes rab). They have been
translated into English by the Anagarika
Kunzang Tenzin on the last day of the year 1973
in the hope that the karma of the year may be mitigated.
May all beings be happy!
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