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Milarepa
Root
Verses of Illuminating Wisdom
I prostrate
to the holy siddha gurus!
The lineage of gurus
From the great master Tilopa to the great scholar Naropa and the translator
Marpa from Lhodrak.
I the yogin
of Gung-thang
With an attitude of faith
Served the Lhodrak Jetsun.
With compassion he bestowed his thought upon me.
Having obtained his spiritual instructions
I meditated diligently upon them.
When blessing arose
My body blazed with heat.
So I was warm in only a cotton robe.
Luminosity arose in my mind.
Of all the many tantras and transmissions nothing is equal to this.
You should know this difference.
When one practises this, the basis path and fruit arise in succession.
Mahamudra
is the true nature of mind.
Here its characteristics will be shown in three parts
Mahamudra as basis, mahamudra as path, mahamudra as fruit.
Mahamudra
as basis
It is the
thought of buddhas and the mind of sentient beings.
It is without colour, form, centre or periphery.
It is free from bias in any direction.
It cannot be experienced as existent or as non-existent.
It is not deluded and cannot be liberated.
It does not arise from any cause and is not affected by any condition.
Wise buddhas cannot contrive it, foolish beings cannot damage it.
It cannot be improved by realization nor impaired by error.
In this way mahamudra is the basis.
Mahamudra
as path
It is the
practice which rests upon the basis.
When settling one settles without objectification.
When resting in stillness one rests without any wavering.
When moving, one moves without holding.
Whatever arises, arises as reality itself.
This is the one practice.
In this way mahamudra is the path.
Mahamudra
as fruit
It is freedom
from the liberated
Freedom from the liberator
Freedom from hope and fear.
As mind and dharmas are exhausted it is ungraspable.
It transcends mind and expression
In this way mahamudra is the fruit.
(In such
a way the basis, path and fruit of mahamudra are explained by Jetsun Milarepa.
These instructions were translated into English by the layman Jampa Thaye).
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