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HO
All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana,
Has one ground, two paths and two results.
It is the display
of awareness and ignorance.
Through the aspiration of
Samantabhadra
May all be fully awakened
In the citadel of the
dharmadhatu.
The ground of all is uncomposed,
An
inexpressible, self-arisen expanse
Without the names "samsara"
and "nirvana."
If it is known, buddhahood is attained.
Not
knowing it, beings wander in samsara.
May all beings of the three
realms
Know the inexpressible ground.
I, Samantabhadra
Know naturally that ground
Without cause and condition.
I
am without the defects of superimposition and denial of outer and
inner.
I am unobscured by the darkness of
mindlessness.
Therefore, self-appearance is unobscured.
If
self-awareness remains in place
There is no fear even if the
three-fold world is destroyed.
There is no attachment to the five
desirables.
In self-arisen, non-conceptual awareness
There is
no solid form or five poisons.
The unceasing lucidity of
awareness
Is five wisdoms of one nature.
Through the ripening
of the five wisdoms
The five families of the first buddha
arose.
From the further expansion of wisdom
The forty-two
buddhas arose.
As the display of five wisdoms
The sixty blood
drinkers arose.
Therefore, ground-awareness never became
confused.
As I am the first buddha,
Through my aspiration
May beings of samsara's three realms
Recognize self-arisen
awareness
And expand great wisdom.
My emanations are
unceasing.
I manifest inconceivable billions,
Displayed as
whatever tames beings.
Through my compassionate aspiration
May
all beings of samsara's three realms
Escape the six
states.
At first, for bewildered beings
Awareness did not
arise on the ground.
That obscurity of unconsciousness
Is the
cause of bewildered ignorance.
From that
unconsciousness
Emerged terrified, blurry cognition.
Self -
other and enmity were born from that.
Through the gradual
intensification of habit
Sequential entry into samsara
began.
The five poisonous kleshas developed.
The actions of
the five poisons are unceasing.
Therefore, since the ground of
the confusion of beings
Is mindless ignorance,
Through the
aspiration of myself, the buddha,
May all recognize
awareness.
The connate ignorance
Is a distracted, mindless
cognition.
The labeling ignorance
Is holding self and other
to be two.
The two ignorances, connate and labeling,
Are the
ground of the confusion of all beings.
Through the aspiration of
myself, the buddha,
May the thick, mindless obscurity
Of all
samsaric beings be dispelled.
May dualistic cognition be
clarified.
May awareness be recognized.
Dualism is
doubt.
From the emergence of subtle clinging
Coarse habit
gradually develops.
Food, wealth, clothing, places, companions,
The five desirables and beloved relatives --
Beings are
tormented by attachment to the pleasant.
That is mundane
confusion.
There is no end to the actions of dualism.
When the
fruit of clinging ripens,
Born as pretas tormented by craving
--
How sad is their hunger and thirst.
Through the aspiration
of myself, the buddha,
May desirous beings
Not reject the
longing of desire
Nor accept the clinging of attachment.
By
relaxing cognition as it is
May their awareness take its
seat.
May they attain the wisdom of
discrimination.
Through the emergence of a subtle, fearful
cognition
Of externally apparent objects
The habit of
aversion grows.
Coarse enmity, beating and killing are
born.
When the fruit of aversion ripens,
How much suffering
there is in hell through boiling and burning.
Through the
aspiration of myself, the buddha,
When strong aversion
arises
In all beings of the six states,
May it be relaxed
without rejection or acceptance.
Awareness taking its
seat,
May beings attain the wisdom of clarity.
One's mind
becoming inflated,
An attitude of superiority to
others,
Fierce pride, is born.
One experiences the suffering
of disputation.
When the fruit of that action ripens
One is
born as a god and experiences death and downfall.
Through the
aspiration of myself, the buddha,
May beings with inflated minds
Relax cognition as it is.
Awareness taking its seat,
May
they realize equality.
Through the habit of developed
dualism,
From the agony of praising oneself and denigrating
others,
Quarrelsome competitiveness develops.
Born as an
asura, killed and mutilated,
One falls to hell as a
result.
Through the aspiration of myself, the buddha,
May
those who quarrel through competitiveness
Relax their
enmity.
Awareness taking its seat,
May they attain the wisdom
of unimpeded activity.
Through the distraction of mindless
apathy,
Through torpor, obscurity, forgetfulness,
Unconsciousness, laziness and bewilderment,
One wanders as an
unprotected animal as a result.
Through the aspiration of myself,
the buddha,
May the light of lucid mindfulness arise
In the
obscurity of torpid bewilderment.
May non-conceptual wisdom be
attained.
All beings of the three realms
Are equal to
myself, the buddha, in the all-ground.
It became the ground of
mindless confusion.
Now, they engage in pointless actions.
The six actions are like the bewilderment of dreams.
I am the
first buddha.
I tame the six types of beings through
emanations.
Through the aspiration of Samantabhadra,
May
all beings without exception
Be awakened in the
dharmadhatu.
A HO
From now on whenever a powerful
yogin
Within lucid awareness without bewilderment
Makes this
powerful aspiration,
All beings who hear it
Will be fully
awakened within three lives.
When the sun or moon is grasped
by Rahu,
When there is clamor or earthquakes,
At the
solstices or at the year's change,
If he generates himself as
Samantabhadra
And recites this in the hearing of all,
All
beings of the three realms
Will be gradually freed from suffering
And will finally attain buddhahood
Through the aspiration of
that yogin.
From the Tantra of the Great Perfection Which Shows the
Penetrating Wisdom of Samantabhadra, this is the ninth chapter,
which presents the powerful aspiration which makes it impossible for
all beings not to attain buddhahood.
Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso and The Dzogchen Ponlop,
Rinpoche.
© 1998 by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso and The Dzogchen
Ponlop, Rinpoche.
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