It’s really this simple … nothing else is needed … just follow the 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje’s advice.
No need for complex, no need for difficult, no need for struggle, for goals, for striving, for conflict.
No need for imaginary obstacles that block our path and make life so difficult … just follow this advice:
Homage to all the sacred masters.
The heart-mind of all the Buddhas of the past, the present, and the future, widely renowned as Dharmakaya, as Mahamudra, as enlightened mind, is precisely your own mind, which thinks of this and that.
Simply allow this unique awareness to rest vividly awake and present in its natural way.
You don’t need to worry or think, “Is this really it? Could this be Mahamudra?” Don’t bother yourself with these doubts and questions. Don’t hope for improvement or be afraid of degeneration.
By practicing in this extraordinarily simple way, again and again, you will definitely recognize the groundless, rootless open essence of all thoughts, appearances, and phenomena. When that happens, realization blooms naturally. All attachments, all habitual patterns, all conditioning is spontaneously liberated and released in this blossoming of realization.
I swear there is not a more profound and ultimate instruction from all the holy and realized masters of the enlightened lineage that is more profound and more vital than this single word of my heart-advice. Please don’t waste this. Don’t squander it. Remember this teaching always. There is no mistake in it. Rely on the blessings of such a teaching, rather than on the blessings of others.
This was written by Karmapa Rangjung Dorje in the Yangon Hermitage. May all beings be happy. Sarva mangalam.
The Single Word of Heart-Advice
by Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje
" Your mind that thinks of this or that" does it mean sems or sems -nyd?. It seems it would not matter,because I can see only my conceptual (what I conceive to be) mind, I can not presume of differentiating them. So this is enough to see "the face of dharmata"or Rigpa….I will appreciate your takes on this matter.
Thanks for this. I see this as pointing to two things:
You have to recognise that empty luminosity, that primordial purity, and see how different that is from the contraction around self and other, around phenomena.
But from that recognition you will gradually come to see that all that you contracted around in and got lost in – which led to a strong sense of self and other – these phenomena are just empty-appearances – they play of that empty luminosity itself. Their nature isn’t any different from the empty luminosity that they seem to arise from and seem to cease back into.
So I take the first paragraph in Karmapa’s teaching as pointing to this – even this “thinks of this and that” is none other than the Dharmakaya – the empty essense of mind that is minds true nature. But being in conceptual mind is not recognising Dharmata, or Rigpa. You have that be able to see that first recognition I mention above.
I hope that helps?
Sorry for the late reply.
Hello,
Do you know where I can get the tibetan language version of this teaching?
thanks
Paul