{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/tib/karmapa.htm","path":"bud/tib/karmapa.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/karmapa.htm","text":"Aspirations for Mahamudra\nNamo guru.\nGurus and yidams, deities of the mandala,\nBuddhas of the three times and ten directions and your children,\nConsider me with kindness.\nGrant your blessing that all my wishes be realized.\nSprung from the snow-mountain of the pure actions and intentions--\nMind and those of all sentient beings without limit--\nMay the river of virtue undefiled by the three spheres\nflow into the ocean of the four bodies of Buddha.\nAs long as I have not realized this,\nThrough all my life times, birth after birth,\nMay not even the words for defilement and suffering be heard,\nAnd may I enjoy the prosperity of oceans of happiness and virtue.\nHaving obtained this excellent, free, and well-favored life,\nAlong with faith, energy, and intelligence,\nHaving attended a worthy master and received the pith of the sacred instructions,\nMay I practice the sacred Dharma properly in all my lives without interruption.\nThe study of scriptures frees one from the veil of ignorance.\nThe contemplation of oral instructions overcomes the darkness of doubt.\nLight born of meditation illuminates the way things are.\nMay the radiance of the three wisdoms increase.\nThe significance of the ground is the two truths,\nfree from the extremes of eternalism and nihilism.\nThe excellent path, the two accumulations,\nfree from the extremes of assumption and denial.\nThe result obtained is the two benefits,\nfree from the extremes of existence and peace.\nMay I meet the Dharma, which is free from error.\nThe ground of refinement is mind itself--indivisible luminosity and emptiness:\nthe refining--the great vajra composure of Mahamudra:\nWhat is to be refined--the incidental stains of confusion:\nThe result of refining--the unstained Dharmakaya: may I realize it.\nConfidence in outlook is cutting assumptions about the ground.\nThe key to meditation is maintaining that without distraction.\nThe supreme activity is to exercise the sense of meditation in everything.\nMay I have confidence in outlook, meditation and activity.\nAll Dharmas are projections of the mind,\nAs for mind, there is no mind; mind's nature is empty.\nEmpty and immediate, mind appears as everything.\nInvestigating it well, may I settle the basic points.\nAppearances, which never existed in themselves, have been confused as objects;\nAwareness itself, because of ignorance, has been confused as a self;\nThrough the power of dualistic fixation I wander in the realm of existence.\nMay ignorance and confusion be completely resolved.\nIt doesn't exist; even Buddhas do not see it.\nIt doesn't NOT exist; it is the origin of Samsara and Nirvana.\nNo contradiction; conjunction, the middle way.\nMay I realize the pure being of mind, free from extremes.\nIf one says, \"It is this,\" nothing has been posited.\nIf one says, \"It is not this,\" nothing has been denied.\nUnconditioned pure being transcends intellect.\nMay I gain conviction in the ultimate position.\nNot realizing it, one circles in the ocean of Samsara.\nRealizing it, Buddha isn't anywhere else.\n\"It is everything,\" \"It isn't anything\"; none of this.\nMay pure being, the basis of everything, be realized.\nSince appearance is mind and emptiness is mind,\nSince realization is mind and delusion is mind,\nSince arising is mind and cessation is mind,\nMay all assumptions about mind be eliminated.\nUnpolluted by meditation with intellectual efforts,\nUndisturbed by the winds of everyday affairs,\nNot manipulating, knowing how to let what is true be itself,\nMay I become skilled in this practice of mind and maintain it.\nThe waves of subtle and coarse thoughts calm down in their own ground.\nMotionless, the river of mind abides naturally.\nFree from the contaminations of dullness and torpor,\nMay I establish the still ocean of shamatha.\nWhen one looks again and again at the mind which cannot be looked at,\nAnd sees vividly for what it is, the meaning of not seeing,\nDoubts about the meaning of \"is\" and \"is not\" are resolved.\nWithout confusion, may my own face know itself.\nLooking at objects, there is no object; one sees mind.\nLooking at mind, there is no mind; it is empty of nature.\nLooking at both of these, dualistic clinging subsides on its own.\nMay I realize sheer clarity, the way mind is.\nFree from mental constructions, it is called Mahamudra.\nFree from extremes, it is called Madhyamika.\nEverything complete here, it is also called Maha Ati.\nMay I attain the confidence that, it understanding one, all are realized.\nThe great bliss of nonattachment is continuous.\nSheer clarity without fixations is free of obscurations.\nPassing beyond intellect, non-thought is naturally present. May these experiences continually arise without effort.\nAttachment to good and fixation on experience subside on their own.\nConfusion and evil concepts are cleared away in the realm of ultimate nature.\nIn the ordinary mind, there is no rejection or acceptance to separation or attainment.\nMay I realize the truth of pure being, complete simplicity.\nWhile the nature of beings has always been full enlightenment,\nNot realizing this, they wander in endless Samsara.\nFor the boundless suffering of sentient beings\nMay overwhelming compassion be born in my being.\nWhile such compassion is active and immediate,\nIn the moment of compassion, its essential emptiness if nakedly clear.\nThis conjunction is the undeviating supreme path;\nInseparable from it, may I meditate day and night.\nFrom the power of meditation come eyes and actual knowledge.\nSentient beings are ripened and domains of enlightenment refined.\nAspirations for the realization of all aspects of Buddhahood are fulfilled.\nMay I complete these three -- fulfillment, ripening, and refinement --\nAnd become a Buddha.\nBy the compassion of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions\nAnd the power of whatever pure virtue there may be,\nMay my wishes and those of all beings be fulfilled.","title":"Aspirations for Mahamudra","type":"page"}