Realisation of Dreams and Mind

Lord Paindapa, you who practice yogic discipline!

Your name has been prophesied by the devas; what a great wonder!

Under the hand of glorious Advayalalita

Are the vajra brothers and sisters whose minds do not differ.

Headed by Sri Gunamati,

Dakas who are sitting in the right hand row, listen to me!

After them, the secret yoginis,

Headed by the consort Sukhavajri,

Dakinis who are sitting in the left hand row, listen to me!

Generally, all Dharmas are illusion.

Dreams are exalted as special illusion.

Early in the night, dreams arise born from habitual patterns.

There is nothing whatsoever to rely on there.

At midnight, the deceptions of Mara appear.

One should not trust in these.

At dawn, there are prophecies by the devas.

How wondrous, how great indeed!

At the break of dawn this morning,

The great lord master appeared

And taught the Dharma which revealed the ultimate.

This is the unforgettable memory of what Maitripa said:

"In general, all Dharmas are mind.

The Guru arises from mind.

The Guru is nothing other than mind.

Everything that appears is the nature of mind.

This mind itself is primordially non-existent.

In the natural state, unborn and innate,

There is nothing to abandon by discursive effort.

Rest at ease, naturally, without restriction.

This can be shown by signs:

A human corpse, an outcast, a dog, a pig,

An infant, a madman, an elephant,

A precious jewel, a blue lotus,

Quicksilver, a deer, a lion,

A Brahman, and a black antelope; did you see them?" Maitripa asked.

The realization of the truth was shown by these signs:

Not fixated on either samsara or Nirvana,

Not holding acceptance or rejection in one's being,

Not hoping for fruition from others,

Mind free from occupation and complexity,

Not falling into the four extremes,

Nonmeditation and nonwandering,

Free from thought and speech,

Beyond any analogy whatsoever.

Through the kindness of the Guru, I realised these.

Since the experience of these realisations has dawned,

Mind and mental events have ceased,

And space and insight are inseparable.

Faults and virtues neither increase nor decrease.

Bliss, emptiness, and luminosity are unceasing.

Therefore, luminosity dawns beyond coming or going.

This transmission of the innate, the pith of the view

Through the sign meanings which reveal the unborn,

I heard from the great lord master.

The reason why I sing these words

Is the insistent request of the honourable lords.

I could not refuse the Dharma brothers and sisters.

Dakinis, do not be jealous!

Thus, this song was sung for the Dharma brothers and sisters headed by Paindapa at the Rinchen Tsul monastery in Nepal to show the meaning of the signs of mahamudra as revealed by Maitripa's appearance in a dream.

Response to a Logician

Milarepa

I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.

And sing this song in response to you.

Listen, pay heed to what I say,

forget your critique for a while.

The best seeing is the way of "nonseeing" --

the radiance of the mind itself.

The best prize is what cannot be looked for --

the priceless treasure of the mind itself.

The most nourishing food is "noneating" --

the transcendent food of samadhi.

The most thirst-quenching drink is "nondrinking" --

the nectar of heartfelt compassion.

Oh, this self-realizing awareness

is beyond words and description!

The mind is not the world of children,

nor is it that of logicians.

Attaining the truth of "nonattainment,"

you receive the highest initiation.

Perceiving the void of high and low,

you reach the sublime stage.

Approaching the truth of "nonmovement,"

you follow the supreme path.

Knowing the end of birth and death,

the ultimate purpose is fulfilled.

Seeing the emptiness of reason,

supreme logic is perfected.

When you know that great and small are groundless,

you have entered the highest gateway.

Comprehending beyond good and evil

opens the way to perfect skill.

Experiencing the dissolution of duality,

you embrace the highest view.

Observing the truth of "nonobservation"

opens the way to meditating.

Comprehending beyond "ought" and "oughtn't"

opens the way to perfect action.

When you realize the truth of "noneffort,"

you are approaching the highest fruition.

Ignorant are those who lack this truth:

arrogant teachers inflated by learning,

scholars bewitched by mere words,

and yogis seduced by prejudice.

For though they yearn for freedom,

they find only enslavement.

Song to the Rock Demoness

milarepa

River, ripples, and waves, these three,

When emerging, arise from the ocean itself.

When disappearing, they disappear into the ocean itself.

Habitual thinking, love, and possessiveness, these three,

When arising, arise from the alaya consciousness itself.

When disappearing, they disappear into the alaya consciousness itself.

Self-awareness, self-illumination, self-liberation, these three,

When arising, arise from the mind itself.

When disappearing, they disappear into the mind itself.

The unborn, unceasing, and unexpressed, these three,

When emerging, arise from the nature of being itself.

When disappearing, they disappear into the nature of being itself.

The visions of demons, clinging to demons, and thoughts of demons,

When arising, arise from the Yogin himself.

When disappearing, they disappear into the Yogin himself.

Since demons are the phantoms of the mind,

If it is not understood by the Yogin that they are empty appearances,

And even if he thinks they are real, meditation is confused.

But the root of the delusion is in his own mind.

By observation of the nature of manifestations,

He realizes the identity of manifestation and void,

And by understanding, he knows that the two are not different.

Meditation and not meditation are not two but one,

The cause of all errors is to look upon the two things as different.

From the ultimate point of view, there is no view.

If you make comparison between the nature of the mind

And the nature of the heavens,

Then the true nature of being itself is penetrated.

See, now, that you look into the true meaning which is beyond thought.

Arrange to enter into undisturbed meditation.

And be mindful of the Unceasing Intuitive Sensation!

The Profound Definitive Meaning

milarepa

For the mind that masters view the emptiness dawns

In the content seen not even an atom exists

A seer and seen refined until they're gone

This way of realizing view, it works quite well

When meditation is clear light river flow

There is no need to confine it to sessions and breaks

Meditator and object refined until they're gone

This heart bone of meditation, it beats quite well

When you're sure that conducts work is luminous light

And you're sure that interdependence is emptiness

A doer and deed refined until they're gone

This way of working with conduct, it works quite well

When biased thinking has vanished into space

No phony facades, eight dharmas, nor hopes and fears,

A keeper and kept refined until they're gone

This way of keeping samaya, it works quite well

When you've finally discovered your mind is dharmakaya

And you're really doing yourself and others good

A winner and won refined until they're gone

This way of winning results, it works quite well.

The Song of Food and Dwelling

milarepa

I bow down at the feet of the wish-fulfilling Guru.

Pray vouchsafe me your grace in bestowing beneficial food,

Pray make me realize my own body as the house of Buddha,

Pray grant me this knowledge.

I built the house through fear,

The house of Sunyata, the void nature of being;

Now I have no fear of its collapsing.

I, the Yogi with the wish-fulfilling gem,

Feel happiness and joy where'er I stay.

Because of the fear of cold, I sought for clothes;

The clothing I found is the Ah Shea Vital Heat.

Now I have no fear of coldness.

Because of the fear of poverty, I sought for riches;

The riches I found are the inexhaustible Seven Holy Jewels.

Now I have no fear of poverty.

Because of the fear of hunger, I sought for food;

The food I found is the Samadhi of Suchness.

Now I have no fear of hunger.

Because of the fear of thirst, I sought for drink;

The heavenly drink I found is the wine of mindfulness.

Now I have no fear of thirst.

Because of the fear of loneliness, I searched for a friend;

The friend I found is the bliss of perpetual Sunyata.

Now I have no fear of loneliness.

Because of the fear of going astray,

I sought for the right path to follow.

The wide path I found is the Path of Two-in-One.

Now I do not fear to lose my way.

I am a yogi with all desirable possessions,

A man always happy where'er he stays.

Here at Yolmo Tagpu Senge Tson,

The tigress howling with a pathetic, trembling cry,

Reminds me that her helpless cubs are innocently playing.

I cannot help but feel a great compassion for them,

I cannot help but practice more diligently,

I cannot help but augment thus my Bodhi-Mind.

The touching cry of the monkey,

So impressive and so moving,

Cannot help but raise in me deep pity.

The little monkey's chattering is amusing and pathetic;

As I hear it, I cannot but think of it with compassion.

The voice of the cuckoo is so moving,

And so tuneful is the lark's sweet singing,

That when I hear them I cannot help but listen --

When I listen to them,

I cannot help but shed tears.

The varied cries and cawings of the crow,

Are a good and helpful friend unto the yogi.

Even without a single friend,

To remain here is a pleasure.

With joy flowing from my heart, I sing this happy song;

May the dark shadow of all men's sorrows

Be dispelled by my joyful singing.

The Song of the Twelve Deceptions

Themes

Birth, Rebirth

Death

Womb

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Worldly affairs are all deceptive;

So I seek the Truth Divine.

Excitements and distractions are illusions;

So I meditate on the Non-dual Truth.

Companions and servants are deceptive;

So I remain in solitude.

Money and possessions are also deceptive;

So if I have them, I give them away.

Things in the outer world are all illusion;

The Inner Mind is that which I observe.

Wandering thoughts are all deceptive;

So I only tread the Path of Wisdom.

Deceptive are the teachings of Expedient Truth;

The Final Truth is that on which I meditate.

Books written in black ink are all misleading;

I only meditate on the Pith-Instructions of the Whispered Lineage.

Words and sayings, too, are but illusion;

At ease, I rest my mind in the effortless state.

Birth and death are both illusions;

I observe but the truth of No-Arising.

The common mind is in every way misleading;

And so I practice how to animate Awareness.

The Mind-holding Practice is misleading and deceptive;

And so I rest in the realm of Reality.

The Song of View, Practice, and Action

Themes

Birth, Rebirth

Freedom

Garden

Womb

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The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan, Translated by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa

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Oh, my Guru! The Exemplar of the View, Practice, and Action,

Pray vouchsafe me your grace, and enable me

To be absorbed in the realm of Self-nature!

For the View, Practice, Action, and Accomplishment

There are three Key-points you should know:

All the manifestation, the Universe itself, is contained in the mind;

The nature of Mind is the realm of illumination

Which can neither be conceived nor touched.

These are the Key-points of the View.

Errant thoughts are liberated in the Dharmakaya;

The awareness, the illumination, is always blissful;

Meditate in a manner of non-doing and non-effort.

These are the Key-points of Practice.

In the action of naturalness

The Ten Virtues spontaneously grow;

All the Ten Vices are thus purified.

By corrections or remedies

The Illuminating Void is ne'er disturbed.

These are the Key-points of Action.

There is no Nirvana to attain beyond;

There is no Samsara here to renounce;

Truly to know the Self-mind

It is to be the Buddha Himself.

These are the Key-points of Accomplishment.

Reduce inwardly the Three Key-points to One.

This One is the Void Nature of Being,

Which only a wondrous Guru

Can clearly illustrate.

Much activity is of no avail;

If one sees the Simultaneously Born Wisdom,

He reaches the goal.

For all practitioners of Dharma

The preaching is a precious gem;

It is my direct experience from yogic meditation.

Think carefully and bear it in your minds,

Oh, my children and disciples.

The Song on Reaching the Mountain Peak

Commentary by

Ivan M. Granger

Themes

Birth, Rebirth

Light

Mountain

Wine

Womb

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The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan, Translated by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa

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Hearken, my sons! If you want

To climb the mountain peak

You should hold the Self-mind's light,

Tie it with a great "Knot,"

And catch it with a firm "Hook."

If you practice thus

You can climb the mountain peak

To enjoy the view.

Come, you gifted men and women,

Drink the brew of Experience!

Come "inside" to enjoy the scene --

See it and enjoy it to the full!

The Incapable remain outside;

Those who cannot drink pure

Beer may quaff small beer.

He who cannot strive for Bodhi,

Should strive for superior birth.

Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,

Themes

Freedom

Honey

Lotus

Moon

Pain and Wounding

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The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan, Translated by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa

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Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,

Once lived a Saint, known as the second Buddha;

His fame was heard in all the Ten Directions.

To Him, the Jewel a'top the eternal Banner of Dharma

I pay homage and give offerings.

Is He not the holy Master, the great Midripa?

Upon the Lotus-seat of Midripa

My Father Guru places his reliance;

He drinks heavenly nectar

With the supreme view of Mahamudra;

He has realized the innate Truth in utter freedom.

He is the supreme one, Jetsun Marpa.

Undefiled by faults or vices,

He is the Transformation Body of Buddha.

He says: "Before Enlightenment,

All things in the outer world

Are deceptive and confusing;

Clinging to outer forms,

One is ever thus entangled.

After Enlightenment, one sees all things and objects

As but magic shadow-plays,

And all objective things

Become his helpful friends.

In the uncreated Dharmakaya all are pure;

Nothing has ever manifested

In the Realm of Ultimate Truth."

He says: "Before Enlightenment,

The ever-running Mind-consciousness within

Is shut in a confusing blindness

Which is the source of passions, actions, and desires.

After Enlightenment, it becomes the

Self-illuminating Wisdom --

All merits and virtues spring from it.

In Ultimate Truth there is not even Wisdom;

Here one enters the Realm where Dharma is exhausted."

The coproreal form

Is built of the Four Elements;

Before one attains Enlightenment,

All illness and all suffering come from it.

After Enlightenment, it becomes the two-in-one Body

Of Buddha clear as the cloudless firmament!

Thus rooted out are the base Samsaric clingings.

In Absolute Truth there is no body.

The malignant male and femal demons

Who create myriad troubles and obstructions,

Seem real before one has Enlightenment;

But when one realizes their nature truly,

They become Protectors of the Dharma,

And by their help and freely-given assistance

One attains to numerous accomplishments.

In Ultimate Truth there are no Buddhas and no demons;

One enters here the Realm where Dharma is exhausted.

Among all Vehicles, this ultimate teaching

Is found only in the Tantras.

It says in the Highest Division of the Tantra:

"When the various elements gather in the Nadis,

One sees the demon-forms appear.

If one knows not that they are but mind-created

Visions, and deems them to be real,

One is indeed most foolish and most stupid."

In time past, wrapped up in clinging blindness,

I lingered in the den of confusion,

Deeming benevolent deities and malignant

Demons to be real and subsistent.

Now, through the Holy One's grace and blessing

I realize that both Samsara and Nirvana

Are neither existent nor non-existent;

And I see all forms as Mahamudra.

Realizing the groundless nature of ignorance,

My former awareness, clouded and unstable

Like reflections of the moon in rippling water,

Becomes transparent, clear as shining crystal.

Its sun-like brilliance is free from obscuring clouds,

Its light transcends all forms of blindness,

Ignorance and confusion thus vanish without trace.

This is the truth I have experienced within.

Again, the foolish concept "demons" iself

Is groundless, void, and yet illuminating!

Oh, this indeed is marvelous and wonderful!

The Song of Perfect Assurance (to the Demons)

Commentary by

Ivan M. Granger

Themes

Sound

Womb

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Obeisance to the perfect Marpa.

I am the Yogi who perceives the Ultimate Truth.

In the Origin of the Unborn, I first gain assurance;

On the Path of Non-extinction, slowly

I perfect my power;

With meaningful symbols and words

Flowing from my great compassion,

I now sing this song

From the absolute realm of Dharma Essence.

Because your sinful Karma has created

Dense blindness and impenetrable obstruction,

You cannot understand the meaning

Of Ultimate Truth.

Listen, therefore, to the Expedient Truth.

In their spotless, ancient Sutras,

All the Buddhas in the past, repeatedly

Admonished with the eternal Truth of Karma --

That every sentient being is one's kinsman.

This is eternal Truth which never fails.

Listen closely to the teaching of Compassion.

I, the Yogi who developed by his practices,

Know that outer hindrances are but a shadow-show,

And the phantasmal world

A magic play of mind unborn.

By looking inward into the mind is seen

Mind-nature -- without substance, intrinsically void.

Through meditation in solitude, the grace

Of the Succession Gurus and the teaching

Of the great Naropa are attained.

The inner truth of the Buddha

Should be the object of meditation.

By the gracious instruction of my Guru,

Is the abstruse inner meaning of Tantra understood.

Through the practice of Arising and

Perfecting Yoga,

Is the Vital Power engendered

And the inner reason for the microcosm realized.

Thus in the outer world I do not fear

The illusory obstacles.

To the Great Divine Lineage I belong,

With innumerable yogis great as all Space.

When in one's own mind one ponders

On the original state of Mind,

Illusory thoughts of themselves dissolve

Into the Realm of Dharmadhatu.

Neither afflicter nor afflicted can be seen.

Exhaustive study of the Sutras

Teaches us no more than this.

The View, Concisely Put

naropa

The View, Concisely Put

This mind that knows emptiness

Is itself the awakened mind, bodhicitta.

The Buddha potential is just this.

The sugata essence is just this.

Because of tasting what is,

It is also the great bliss.

The understanding of secret mantra is just this.

Means and knowledge is just this.

This self-knowing, while one is still defiled,

Does not depend on other things,

So self-existing wakefulness is just this.

Being aware, it is cognizance.

A natural knowing that is free of thought.

This self-knowing cannot possibly form thoughts.

Without conceptualizing 'a mind,'

Since it is not something to be conceived,

This original wakefulness, cognizant yet thought-free,

Is like the wisdom of the Tathagata.

Therefore, it is taught, "Realize that luminous mind

Is the mind of original wakefulness,

And don't seek an enlightenment separate from that."

The Summary of Mahamudra

Themes

Bliss

Fire

Freedom

Water

Womb

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Homage to the state of great bliss!

Concerning what is called Mahamudra

All things are your own mind.

Seeing objects as external is a mistaken concept;

Like a dream, they are empty of concreteness.

This mind, as well, is a mere movement of attention

That has no self-nature, being merely a gust of wind.

Empty of identity, like space.

All things, like space, are equal.

When speaking of 'Mahamudra'

It is not an entity that can be shown.

There the mind's suchness

Is itself the state of Mahamudra.

It is neither something to be corrected nor transformed,

But when anyone sees and realizes its nature

All that appears and exists is Mahamudra,

The great all-encompassing Dharmakaya.

Naturally and without contriving, allowed simply to be,

This unimagined Dharmakaya,

Letting it be without seeking is the meditation training.

But to meditate while seeking is deluded mind.

Just as with space and a magical display,

While neither cultivating nor not cultivating

How can you be separate and not separate!

This is a yogi's understanding.

All good deeds and harmful actions

Dissolve by simply knowing this nature.

The emotions are the great wisdom.

Like a jungle fire, they are the yogi's helpers.

How can there be staying or going?

What meditation is there by fleeing to a hermitage?

Without understanding this, all possible means

Never bring more than temporary liberation.

When understanding this nature, what is there to bind you?

While being undistracted from its continuity,

There is neither a composed nor an uncomposed state

To be cultivated or corrected with a remedy.

It is not made out of anything

Experience self-liberated is dharmadhatu.

Thinking self-liberated is great wisdom,

Non-dual equality is dharmakaya.

Like the continuous flow of a great river,

Whatever you do is meaningful,

This is the eternal awakened state,

The great bliss, leaving no place for samasara.

All things are empty of their own identities.

This concept fixed on emptiness has dissolved in itself.

Free of concept, holding nothing in mind,

Is in itself the path of the Buddhas.

For the most fortunate ones,

I have made these concise words of heartfelt advice.

Through this, may every single sentient being

Be established in Mahamudra.

The Songs of Naropa: Commentaries on songs of Realization, Translated by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche / Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang

Advice to Marpa Lotsawa

You Marpa, the translator from Tibet!

Do not make the eight worldly dharmas the goal of your life.

Do not create the bias of self and other, grasping and fixation.

Do not slander friends or enemies.

Do not distort the ways of others.

Learning and contemplation are the torch that illumines the darkness.

Do not be ambushed on the supreme path of liberation.

Previously, we have been guru and disciple;

Keep this with you in the future; do not give this up.

This precious jewel of your mind,

Do not throw it in the river like an idiot.

Guard it carefully with undistracted attention,

And you will accomplish all needs, desires, and intentions.

NAGARDŻUNADedicatory Verse

Themes

Freedom

I prostrate to the Perfect Buddha,

The best of teachers, who taught that

Whatever is depedently arisen is

Unceasing, unborn,

Unannihilated, not permanent,

Not coming, not going,

Without distinction, without identity,

And free from conceptual construction.

nagardżuna

Change

If something has an essence--

How can it ever change

Into anything else?

A thing doesn't change into something else--

Youth does not age,

Age does not age.

If something changed into something else--

Milk would be butter

Or butter would not be milk.

Were there a trace of something,

There would be a trace of emptiness.

Were there no trace of anything,

There would be no trace of emptiness.

Buddhas say emptiness

Is relinquishing opinions.

Believers in emptiness

Are incurable.

Body

Themes

Womb

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Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend, by Nagarjuna / Translated by Padmakara Translation Group

Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness, by Nagarjuna / Translated by David Ross Komito

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I have no body apart

From parts which form it.

I know no parts

Apart from a "body."

A body with no parts

Would be unformed,

A part of my body apart from my body

Would be absurd.

Were the body here or not,

It would need no parts.

Partless bodies are pointless.

Do not get stuck in the "body."

I cannot say,

"My body is like its parts."

I cannot say,

"It's something else."

Feelings, perceptions,

Drives, minds, things

Are like this body

In every way.

Conflict with emptiness

Is no conflict;

Objections to emptiness,

No objections.

Space

No trace of space

Is there before

The absence of obstruction

Which describes it.

With no obstruction,

How can there be

Absence of obstruction?

Who distinguishes between them?

Space is not obstruction

Or an absence of it,

Nor is it a description

Or something to describe.

Fluidity and heat,

Energy and gravity

Are just like space.

In seeing things

To be or not to be

Fools fail to see

A world at ease.

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