四念中觀歌釋 (夏•噶丹嘉措)

༄༅། དྲན་པ་བཞི་ལྡན་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་ཁྲིད་ཟབ་མོ་རྒྱུན་དུ་སྐྱོང་བའི་ཚུལ་ཐར་འདོད་མཛེས་རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།།

第一正念- 念師即佛;  第二正念- 念已即聖;  

第三正念- 念眾即母;  第四正念- 念顯即空.                                                                                                                                       

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樂求解脫者之美飾

– 由具四正念法門護育甚深續流之引導

夏日倉•噶丹嘉措大師著

南無古如曼殊廓咔耶!           

頂禮上師文殊童子菩薩!

此中, 為欲由具四正念之門而禪修甚深道中觀正見甚深引導者, 說前行正行結行三門.

A Commentary on the Song of the Four Mindfulness

Rongwo Monastery (f. 1301), the Seat of Sartsang Tulkus

Note:   This is a experiential commentary by Shar Kelden Gyatso  on His Holiness the 7th Dalai Lama Kelsang Gyatso's  A Song of the Four Mindfulness, which can be found at Sravasti Abbey's Website. 

Outlines: 1. Recognizing Buddha in Guru; 2. Recognizing the Divine in One's Own Self
                 3. Recognizing Mother in All Living Beings
                 4. Recognizing Emptiness in All Phenomena
                 5. Tantric Practices   

English & Chinese Translations     

輪涅平等正見引導簡釋 (金厄·洛卓坚赞)

English Translation

༄༅༅། །སྲིད་ཞི་མཉམ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ལྟ་ཁྲིད་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དབྱངས་ཀྱིས་བླ་མ་དབུ་མ་པ་ལ་གནང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།

上師鄔瑪巴授
輪涅平等正見引導

南無阿日雅曼殊師利耶. 

頂禮聖者文殊師利菩薩!
依于種種緣起理, 如實體性此中示.


皈依積資凈諸障, 緣起順逆次第修.
由身語意聖本性, 并及甚深諸教授,
具幸善修菩提者, 三摩地中住本定.
身語意三蘊聚中, 無處我者得成立,
除此余處亦無我, 具幸善修菩提者,
無我實義理當知. 五蘊六界及六處,
現空輪迴涅槃等, 種種緣起皆無我.
生滅住等皆遠離, 有無是非亦超出,
離戲無別甚深寂, 善知此者般涅槃.          


此暨至尊文殊親授上師鄔瑪巴之輪涅平等正見教授. 善哉!

金厄·洛卓坚赞(智幢)大師著               
輪涅平等正見引導簡釋

依于種種緣起理, 如實體性此中示.

Equanimity of Samsara and Nirvana (Lama Umapa's Guide to the View of Emptiness)

This meditation instruction on Emptiness was said to be bestowed upon Lama Umapa and Lord Tsongkhapa in their meditative visions by Lord Manjushiri himself. The commentator, Chen'nga Lodro Gyaltsen (15-century) received it from Lama Umapa and Lord Tsongkhapa directly.

  Quiet a few features mark this pithy teaching unique among the writings of Guide to the Madhyamaka View. For example,

• Meditation on the twelve-links of dependent origination was included in actual practices, 

• Calm-Abiding was taught in a form of Tantric practice, in other words, recognizing the sacredness innate to the body, speech and mind of the practitioner herself, 

• Meditation on the selflessness of person was preceded by the meditation on the selflessness of phenomena, or more precisely, regarding the practitioner's body, speech, mind and her Five Heaps.

It was translated on the auspicious day of the First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma, 08/06/2016. May all sentient beings realize the equanimity of samsara and nirvana, and abide on the non-abiding transcendence!            

A Tale of the Profundity (The View of Emptiness by Analogy)

༄༅༅། །གསང་བ་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་ཟབ་མོའི་གཏམ་བརྗོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།
A Tale of the Profundity
(1st Draft, 08/06/2016)

Still Life Mirror, Daniel Sprick 2004

In this text, 14th-century Buddhist master Chen'nga Lodro Gyaltsen told a story with eighteen analogies to lead the Aspirants of Enlightenment realize and practice the distinction and reconciliation between the realm of prevalent disguise and the realm of genuine fact, also known as “the Conventional” and “the Ultimate.” 

The ineffable mystery of metaphor and analogy seems inevitable on the journey of seeking the sheer being, in other words, the Nature of Dharma, as the Buddha said: 
 a drop of dew, or a floating bubble,
 a flash of lightning, or a flickering lamp,
 a illusion, a phantom, or, a dream ...

Link to English Translation