Lama Shabkar

Within this state of unwavering awareness, look outwards.

For this reason, they are not liberated.

All that appears is definitely self-display.

All that appears and exists, like a reflection, appears but is empty.

resounds but is empty.

Its nature is empty from the very beginning.

look in the same way towards the watcher, the mind itself.

thoughts vanish spontaneously and are empty like the sky.

All that appears is the magical display of the mind.

One is not fettered by appearance, but by attachment.

So cut your deluded attachment.

My heart, children.

Songs of Examining by Lama Shabka Emaho, now listen once again, fortunate and noble children of my heart.

No matter which spiritual practice you may perform, it can't reach the crucial point unless you resolve your own mind.

It would be like standing directly in front of a target and shooting your arrows far away.

It would be like letting a thief stay inside your house

while frantically searching for him outside of it.

It would be like having a demon at the eastern door and placing a ghost trap in the western entrance.

It would be like a beggar who does not know that a stone in his fireplace is made of gold.

and goes around begging alms from others.