Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice

Essence of Practice

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

This is the essence of practice:

Pray to your Lama and, while praying,
blend your mind inseparably with your Lama’s wisdom mind.
Having merged inseparably, settle in the state of naturalness, the nature of mind.

To be settled in the state of naturalness, this fresh knowing
Uncontrived and unaltered, is luminous naked awareness.
When thoughts arise within that nature,
Recognize them on arising, and relax within that recognition.
Their arising and liberation occur simultaneously, like a drawing on the water’s surface.

When thoughts do not arise, that is non-meditation free from thoughts.
Emptiness, beyond meditator and object of meditation,
Is called ultimate wisdom present from the beginning.
Give up hope and fear; hold to the natural state of awareness.

Thoughts are delusion; stop following after them.
Hope and fear are obstacles; don’t go to greet them.
If you can rest within the nature that is beyond intellect and activity,
You will definitely discover the dharmakaya in your own heart.

~ Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
Wisdom Nectar
Shambhala Publications
Photo: unknown photographer

The Best Buddhist practitioner

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

 

Faith opens the door to the Dharma.
Diligence forms their central pillar.
Practice is their final conclusion.
Who gathers these three is the best Buddhist practitioner.

~ This is old man Dudjom’s foolish advice.

Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice
Snow Lion Publications  2005
Photo Source: unknown

View, Meditation, Conduct

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

All phenomena of existence, samsara and enlightenment,
Are a groundless and rootless display.
Realize the all-inclusive natural state
In encompassing, pervasive space
Is inexpressible empty clarity.
This is Great Perfection’s inconceivable view.

Do not spoil this present ordinary mind
With grasping to meditation and its mental constructs.
Relax, let go,
Never leaving the stable naturally settled state without meditation.
This is meditation of natural liberation without fixation.

Relax yourself in the natural arising of the six collections of consciousness,
Have your conduct conform to the Dharma,
And let go in non-action, allowing things to occur of themselves:
Know this as the ultimate conduct.

When you energetically cultivate these experiences,
Do not search for results outside yourself;
You will surely find their natural dwelling place directly within you:
This is the pinnacle of the result.

***Wisdom Nectar