Longchenpa

The web of magic states

Perfect Buddhahood is not to be found anywhere in the ten directions or four times. Since mind itself is perfectly awakened as Buddhahood, do not seek Buddhahood elsewhere.

If you put this into practice, it makes no difference whether thoughts arise or indeed what takes place.

Do not direct your thoughts outwardly to sense objects. Think inwardly about your ordinary mind or settle into some unborn state between these alternatives as the natural state.

Rather, identify unobstructed awareness in your immediate perception of it. In the very instant you do so, you abide in enlightened intent that is like space beyond elaboration, imagination,

or expression, a state free of limitation in which nothing has been deliberately rejected, but which is not experienced in light of your ordinary consciousness.

Here the phrase, is not experienced in light of your ordinary consciousness, is used because there is no proliferation and resolution of thoughts. Since you do not think about the sense objects you perceive, it is said that nothing can be characterized as real.

when both seemingly real sense objects and the proliferation and resolution of thoughts are absent. There are no other modes by which samsara and nirvana can be evaluated and reified. And so there is one's own awareness that is timeless awareness

as one's individual experience of self-knowing awareness, indescribable, inconceivable, and inexpressible.

the great Garuda states. Rely on the state of resting naturally and you are free of needing to do anything about Samsara or Nirvana. As for the miraculous expressions of mind and sensory appearances,

This is self, this is other. The hindrances of mental stirring, perceiving, thinking and fixating are dispelled. And so there is imperturbable rest

that defies all attempts at verbal expression. The implication that whatever manifests is the miraculous expression of ordinary conceptual mind can be discerned in the interval

between the mind free of phenomena and its conceptual process.

This key point is the great universal path adhered to by those who are spiritually advanced and by those who follow them. This has been stated in passages such as the following. Indescribable.

inconceivable and inexpressible. Perfection of sublime knowing is unborn and unceasing. The very essence of space

It is the domain of each individual's self-knowing, timeless awareness. I pay homage to the mother of victorious ones of the three times.

Do not think of anything. Do not think of anything at all. Do not contrive, but relax naturally and gently. The uncontrived state

is the precious unborn treasury. It is the path blazed by all victorious ones of the three times. When the tangible

and intangible are not experienced in light of ordinary consciousness. Since there are no other alternatives at this point, there is utter peace without any frame of reference.

Freedom from limitation is praised as the ultimate meaning of the true nature of phenomena. Having realized that all phenomena, like space,