LONGCHENPA
The Great Perfection
Meditations on Awakening — Inspired by Longchenpa
Rest naturally
Without effort
Rest in the immediacy of experience
Rest in the vast openness of being
This is the supreme instruction
The path beyond striving
The nature of all phenomena is already free
Manifestations arise and dissolve
Yet they leave no trace
Like waves upon water
Like reflections in a mirror
Like clouds passing through the sky
Nothing is bound
Nothing needs to be liberated
Simply rest
...
Awareness itself is naturally settled
Timelessly free
Beyond grasping and rejecting
It is not bound by thought
It is not altered by perception
It is not improved by effort
The ordinary mind sees bondage
The yogi sees the play of freedom
What binds an ordinary being
Becomes the path of liberation
For one who recognizes awareness
For all arises from the ground of being
See this clearly
And you are free
...
Awareness does not rely on concepts
It does not grasp at objects
It does not cling to appearances
Everything arises from awareness
And dissolves back into it
Like waves upon the vast ocean
Look directly at what arises
It is already free
Do not analyze it
Do not transform it
Do not seek to remove it
Just let it be
And it dissolves on its own
...
Freedom is not created
It is not attained
It is not something to be found later
It is the absence of striving
The absence of seeking
The absence of anything to free
If nothing is bound
What is there to release
If nothing is obstructed
What is there to clear away
Rest in effortless being
...
The world appears fragmented
Yet it is only a display of awareness
When you recognize this
The divisions of thought dissolve
All that remains
Is the vast expanse
Of self knowing awareness
This is the great spectacle
The vision no one else can see
Those who see it are free
Before effort arises
They have already attained realization
They rest in the blissful expanse
The luminous openness of awareness itself
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Pleasure and pain arise from the same source
They are waves upon the same ocean
Why accept one
And reject the other
Why cling to one
And resist the other
Pleasure binds you if you grasp it
Pain binds you if you reject it
But when you let them be
Both are equally free
The yogi does not divide experience
Into good or bad
Realization or delusion
Everything abides in the state of equalness
This is the supreme freedom
...
Thoughts arise
Only to fade away
They leave no trace
Objects appear
Only to vanish
They have no foundation
Since all things disappear
How can they truly exist
Since all things dissolve
How can they be bound
See their nature
They are already free
...
Objects and mind are inseparable
One does not exist without the other
The world appears as a reflection of mind
The mind appears as a reflection of the world
Neither is real
Neither is false
Both are like space
Empty
Clear
Luminous
When this is seen
All division dissolves
This is the realization of self knowing awareness
The domain of those who rest
In the heart essence of truth
...
Awareness shines by its own nature
Like the sun in an empty sky
It cannot be sought
For it has never been lost
It cannot be grasped
For it has never been bound
Whoever realizes this
Has already attained freedom
They do not seek enlightenment
They rest in it
They do not chase realization
They are it
...
This is the hidden jewel
The wisdom beyond words
It cannot be taught
For it has never been separate from you
It cannot be attained
For you have never lacked it
Only those with the fortune to recognize it
See the truth beyond concepts
For them samsara and nirvana are equal
For them there is no path to walk
No goal to reach
No realization to attain
They simply rest
...
Whoever realizes this
Has no need for effort
They abide in the natural state
Where all mandalas converge
They do not strive for awareness
They are awareness itself
This is the unsought rest of Samantabhadra
The timeless space where all things are free
No striving
No seeking
No effort
Only pure luminous rest