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Teachings
of HH3 Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje
'Wishing
Prayer for the Attainment of the Ultimate Mahamudra'
Namo Guru
You Lamas, Yidams and Protectors of the power circles,
You victorious Buddhas and your Bodhisattva sons of the ten directions
and the three times,
Think lovingly of us and give your blessings
That our wishes may be fulfilled exactly as they are made.
Arising from
the snow mountain of the perfectly pure thoughts and actions of ourselves
and all beings,
May the river of good deeds, unsullied by the concept of a separation
into three,
Flow into the ocean of the four Buddha-states.
Until that
happens, may we, in all lifetimes, from one birth to the next,
Never once hear the sound of pain or suffering,
But instead experience oceans of radiant goodness and joy.
Having attained
a free and fully endowed birth,
A precious human life with confidence, diligence, and wisdom,
Relying upon a spiritual teacher and receiving his Essential instructions,
May we then practice the precious teachings without hindrance in this
and all future lives.
Hearing the
teachings frees us from the veils of ignorance.
Contemplating the Oral instructions removes the darkness of doubt.
The light arising from meditation makes clear the nature of mind, exactly
as it is.
May the light of these three wisdoms increase.
May we receive
the flawless teachings, the foundation of which are the two truths
Which are free from the extremes of eternalism and nihilism,
And through the supreme path of the two accumulations, free from the extremes
of negation and affirmation,
May we obtain the fruit which is free from the extremes of either,
Dwelling in the conditioned state or in the state of only peace.
The basis
of purification is the mind itself in its union of clarity and emptiness.
The method of purification is the great Mahamudra Diamond-practice.
What is to be purified are the transitory illusory impurities.
The fruit of the purification is the perfectly pure truth-state.
May this become realized.
Overcoming
doubts concerning the fundamental teaching gives trust in the view.
Protecting this view without distraction is the essence of meditation.
Correct meditation in itself is best behavior.
May we trust the view, the meditation and the conduct.
All phenomena
are projections of the mind.
Mind is not a mind; the mind is empty in essence.
Although empty, everything constantly arises in it.
Through the deepest examination of the mind may we find its innermost
root.
Self-manifestation,
which has never existed as such, is erroneously seen as an object.
Through ignorance, self-awareness is mistakenly experienced as an I.
Through attachment to this duality we are caught in the conditioned world.
May the root of confusion be found.
It is not
existent for even the Buddhas do not see it.
It is not non-existent, being the basis for both samsara and nirvana.
It is not the opposites, nor both, nor something else, but rather their
union - the middle way.
May we realize the true nature of mind, which is beyond extremes.
It cannot
be described by saying, It is.
It cannot be denied by saying, It is not.
The incomprehensible absolute reality is not composite.
May we achieve certainty about the correctness of this ultimate meaning.
As long as
this is not recognized, the wheel of existence turns.
When this is understood, the state of Buddha is nothing other than that.
There is nothing that can be described as either existing or not existing.
May the nature of reality, the true nature of the Buddha mind, be recognized.
Appearance
is only mind, emptiness is only mind, enlightenment is only mind, and
confusion is only one's own mind.
Arising is only mind; disappearance is only mind.
May every doubt and hesitation that concerns the mind be overcome.
May we neither
be sullied by forced intellectual meditation nor disturbed by the winds
of everyday life.
May we skillfully hold onto our practice concerning the nature of mind.
May the immovable
ocean of meditative peace,
Where the waves of subtle and gross thoughts come to rest through their
own power, and
Where the waters of the unmoving mind remain in themselves,
Unspotted by laziness, sleepiness or unclarity, become stable.
If again
and again we examine the mind, which cannot be examined,
We see that which cannot be seen, with total clarity, just as it is.
May the faultless mind, freed from all doubts about being and not being,
recognize itself.
Through the
examination of external objects we see the mind, not the objects.
Through the examination of the mind we see its empty essence, but not
the mind.
Through the examination of both, attachment to duality disappears by itself.
May the clear light, the true essence of mind, be recognized.
Being without
intellectual concepts, it is called the Great Sign, or Mahamudra.
Being without extremes, it is called the Great Middle Way, or Madhyamika.
As it embraces everything, it is called the Great Perfection, or Maha-Ati.
May we have the confidence that the experience of one is the experience
of the meaning of all.
May we constantly
and effortlessly experience the never-ending highest joy, which is without
attachment,
The clear light that is without categories or veils of obscuration, and
The spontaneous, concept-free state that is beyond intellect.
Attachment
to pleasant experiences vanishes of its own accord.
Illusory and negative thoughts are in their essence pure, like space.
In that simple state of mind there is nothing that must be given up or
developed, avoided or attained.
May the truth of the uncomplicated nature of reality be realized.
Although
the true nature of beings is always the Buddha essence,
Still we always wander in the ceaseless wheel of life, not understanding
that.
May infinite compassion arise for the limitless suffering of all beings.
Although
this infinite compassion is strong and unceasing,
The truth of its empty nature arises nakedly the very moment it appears.
This union of emptiness and compassion is the highest faultless way.
May we meditate inseparable from it, the whole time, day and night.
May we attain
the state of Buddha through maturity, realization, and completion,
And develop beings through divine eyes and clear sight arising through
the power of meditation.
May we realize the Buddha fields and fulfill the wishing prayer of the
perfection of the Buddha qualities.
You Buddhas
and Bodhisattvas from the ten directions,
Through your compassion and through the power of all the pure and good
that exists,
May the pure wishing prayers of ourselves and all beings be fulfilled,
Just as they were made.
Extracted
from: "Mahamudra. Boundless Joy and Freedom.
Blue Dolphin Publishing, ISBN: 0-931892-69-4.
With kind permission by the publisher.
Reproduced
here with kind permission.
Talk originally reproduced in :
second
alternative translation - Vow of Mahamudra
third
alternative translation - Aspiration Prayer of Mahamudra
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