Chapter 1: What is the essence of enlightened intent according to Longchenpa?
Now, constraints are dispelled within the spacious state of enlightened intent. That is the true nature of phenomena. To begin with, without interfering with the way the dynamic energy and display of awareness arise, you dispel constraints within the unique state of equalness and purity. Beyond ordinary consciousness,
If you are not distracted from the essence of awareness as the unity of emptiness and lucidity, there is no problem, even if its dynamic energy expresses itself without restriction.
This is illustrated by the fact that as long as a crystal remains in place, there is nothing contradictory about a five-colored light scattering from it in all directions. It is not as though you hold your consciousness.
which arises without restriction within a single context. Rather, you ensure a simple, unobstructed state in which you are not distracted from bare awareness. The ground from which consciousness arises Well, you might think, wouldn't one be distracted by allowing proliferating thoughts to scatter however they will?
But here, distraction is not possible. As subtle energy moves outward, awareness remains focused within. And as its radiance turns back inward, its dynamic energy is freed as it is absorbed into the ground of being. because it is never separate from the unified sphere that is the bare essence of awareness.
The all-creating monarch states, Given the oneness within the basic space of phenomena, there is nothing to traverse. Given intimate contact with the meaning of the heart essence, there is no distraction. Given the unified sphere of being, thoughts do not proliferate anywhere.
Even though you may meditate day and night with a one-pointed mind, if you are fixated on or attached to meditative experiences of bliss, clarity, or non-conceptual awareness, your meditation will be identical to the meditative stability of the gods. and will not be able to lift you the slightest bit farther out of samsara.
Even though meditative absorption may be thoroughly stabilized, if one indulges in overt fixation on it, one is said to be on the level of a fool's entertainment. This will not lead to actual nirvana.
When yogans come to a realization of bare awareness, even though due to its dynamic energy, they are conscious of sense objects, this energy does not fall outside the scope of its essence, the true nature of phenomena. and so they have not strayed from the spontaneously present enlightened intent of Dharmakaya.
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Chapter 2: How can one maintain focus within the dynamic energy of awareness?
when the distortions of hope and fear do not intrude on the state of unobstructed awareness. All the sharp edges of concepts are worn away. You should understand that if there is no distraction from the context of that realization, there is a non-dual state which is the enlightened intent of the victorious ones.
The same tantra states, Ah, the essence of the teacher is the all-creating monarch. While the true nature of phenomena entails no meditation or ordinary thinking, To abide in some vague state without thinking is samsara, pure and simple. To seek something and meditate on it is the path of concepts and characteristics.
Therefore, the all-creating One does not proclaim that freedom lies in abiding in meditative absorption that involves hope and fear. When realization severs the bonds of these two, one abides in the meaning of equalness the absence of opposites, and so the enlightened intent of me, the all-creating One, is spontaneously accomplished.
Thus the pith instruction is to focus one's undistracted attention on the heart essence, which cannot be cultivated in meditation.
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having dispelled constraints within the essence of enlightened intent, which is beyond ordinary consciousness. You can embrace that intent as the transcendence of the proliferation and resolution of thought and recollection.
Since the essence of awareness is free of the limitations imposed by elaboration, it is crucial that the spiritual path of yogans who desire enlightenment not deviate from that essence, because the fruition will not be attained if the ground and path are at cross purposes. Therefore, there can be no deliberate process of meditation using some reference point.
There is simply no strain from the naturally pure state, the realization of bare awareness. This is the enlightened intent of naturally occurring timeless awareness. It is free as the supreme state of total perfection in which nothing is rejected. The great Garuda states, Responsiveness, which by nature expresses itself continuously in sense objects, is free.
in that these empty objects rest in their natural state without being analyzed. The very absence of extremes purifies the avenues to rebirth in higher realms. Having proclaimed the enlightened intent of the All-Creating One, one should further proclaim that there is nothing to cultivate in meditation or to engage in, only attention to and familiarization with the expanse of realization.
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Chapter 3: What does it mean to realize bare awareness in meditation?
within the context of your realizing this same essence to be your own true nature. Your consciousness is limpid and non-conceptual, with no proliferation or resolution of thoughts, no coming or going, And so this is the unique state of utterly lucid meditation.
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Since this essence does not involve the duality of acceptance and rejection, one of its qualities is that acceptance and rejection are naturally cleared away. This is a unique state of non-dual conduct. And since samsara and nirvana do not exist within this essence, there is no renunciation or attainment, no hope or fear. And so this is the unique fruition state.
The perfect dynamic energy of the lion states Conduct is beyond the dualities of reifying attachment. Meditation is beyond the duality of discarding and adopting. View is beyond extremes and bias. Fruition is beyond the dualistic extremes of renunciation and attainment.
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since everything is free of constraints within naturally occurring timeless awareness. It is embraced as a supremely spacious, uniform ground. When myriad dream images manifest, even though months and years, even eons seem to pass, none of them has ever existed.
for they simply manifest as they do, without straying from self-knowing awareness as their place of rest. Similarly, you should understand that even though everything seems to manifest at present as the universe of appearances and possibilities,
whether of samsara or nirvana, and to endure for a long time, none of it strays from the basic space that is its essence. And so it is without transition or change within this primordial state. Free of any substance, they are natural expressions of emptiness.
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Chapter 4: How do thoughts and distractions relate to the practice of Dzogchen?
You do not reify what arises within mind due to its dynamic energy, and so it is emptied of karma and afflictive emotions. There is nothing that could cause you to take rebirth in samsara or fall into confusions. and so you are freed from the reification of mind and sensory appearances. The stronghold of dualistic perception crumbles. Awareness becomes fully evident as an unobstructed state
devoid of confused perception and reification. Then you are said to have arrived at the point of resolution, to have reached the pure realm of Samantabhadra. to have gained the most majestic ongoing state of authentic being, Dharmakaya.
Abba, abba, abba. ... ... ... Abba, abba, abba.
When you experience awareness free of ordinary mind, Implicitly it is also free of ordinary minds' confused perception. So there is no place to go, only the unique state of Buddhahood. This is because the essence that is Buddhahood, being free of anything that could obscure it,
becomes fully evident. When awareness is involved with ordinary mind, we speak of an ordinary being. And when it is free of ordinary mind, we speak of a Buddha.
Abba, abba, abba, abba.
The pearl garland states, Wise people should know the distinction between ordinary mind and timeless awareness. Ordinary mind is the ground of all habitual patterns. It is the distortion common to ordinary beings. It is the reification of objects and mind. Therefore, it is the very nature of samsara. If there is freedom from ordinary mind, that is awakening to Buddhahood.
The distortions common to all ordinary beings have been exhausted. Beings are driven by ordinary mind, for without it they would not go on being driven. Therefore beings appear as if in a magic show. Due to the ordinary mind that reifies things, Perceived objects, though they lack true existence, appear clearly, manifesting in five ways, as forms, sounds, odors, tastes and tactile sensations.
due to the ordinary mind that reifies itself, karma and its inevitable consequences, as well as afflictive emotions, manifest in countless ways. Samsara, the reification of objects where none exist, and the reification of mind where none exists manifest to ordinary beings like a dream due to the arising of the expressions of dualistic mind.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of non-duality in the context of awareness?
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By their very nature, ignorant and spiritually undeveloped people try persistently to tie space into knots. They reify their perceptions of sense objects, even though these objects do not exist. Though nothing exists as self or other, Out of confusion they reify things as self and other.
thus forging the spiritual path with unique timeless awareness. Awareness in which ordinary mind does not exist is the key point for ensuring the attainment of Dharmakaya, free of ordinary mind, in this lifetime. Forging the path with ordinary mind entails other approaches that do not transcend the state of ordinary beings and afford no opportunity to attain Buddhahood.
You may ask, doesn't one forge the path with what arises continuously in the mind? That is, with an aspect of responsiveness, the simultaneous arising and freeing of thoughts? though you are in fact forging the path with an aspect of responsiveness. Here this refers to bare awareness, the ground for the arising of thoughts, not wavering from its natural place of rest.
You absolutely do not forge the path from the perspective of thoughts, that is, with what has already arisen in the mind due to the dynamic energy of responsiveness. I have already explained again and again that when you rest in the essence of awareness, You let go of ordinary mind so that it vanishes naturally. Therefore, understand that ordinary confused mind is a confined space
It is rooted in the non-recognition of awareness. It reifies sense objects as having identity and is unable to stay in one place without being caught up in sense objects. and so forge the path with unobstructed, non-conceptual, timeless awareness, free of ordinary consciousness that engages in thinking in terms of identity.
Abraxas
The perfect dynamic energy of the lion states, Such duality occurs in the minds of ordinary beings. As for the perceptions of ordinary mind and the non-recognition of awareness, they are reinforced by the reification of sense objects when none exist.
As for the perspective of awareness, timeless awareness, it is free of concepts which invest things with identity. There is no hope that something is, and doubts vanish that something is not.
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Chapter 6: How does one distinguish between ordinary mind and timeless awareness?
As you become familiar with that state of awareness, the karma and habitual patterns that perpetuate rebirth fall away by virtue of the cessation of ordinary mind. Your present familiarity with awareness, free of ordinary mind, ultimately makes Dharmakaya, which is also free of ordinary mind, fully evident.
All moments in which you experience awareness free of ordinary mind are identical in that awareness does not stray from the ground of being and so the auspicious circumstances for the fruition becoming fully evident arise as you extend the flow of awareness moment by moment.
Amin. Amin. FACULTY Abraxas Amin.