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The Sarvarahasyatantra
527 Buddha": teaches the firming of the mind of enlightenment. "is to be comprehended": because the mind itself comprises all knowables. "should destroy": destruction, cessation, nirväņa, elimination, are in the same set of terms. Thus the verse refers to the perfection of knowledge and of elimination; such practice, taken together, is the reality
of linga. (17) /sbyor ba ñid dan yan dag 'brel/ (17) Conjoined with that very praxis, his
gan yan srid pa 'by un ma yin/ generation does not again occur. At the gan tshe sans rgyas de tshe na / time he is a Buddha, he contemplates that | sbyor Ina sans rgyas bdag ces he is the Buddha through the fivefold sgom //
praxis. (17) "fivefold praxis": [The commentator śānti-pā, after much introduction, goes into
the five abhisambodhis; cf. F. D. Lessing and A. Wayman, Mkhas grub rje's Fun damentals of the Buddhist Tantras, pp. 29-35, "procedure for the candidates who
enter later."] (18) / tin ’dsin ye ses las byun ba / (18) In short, because the Buddha himself
sans rgyas ñid phyir mdor bsdus pa a rises from the wisdom (jñana) of sama• / sans rgyas rnal 'byor med par ni / dhi, a yogin lacking the Buddha's yoga
| rnal 'byor pa ni 'tshan mi rgya // does not become enlightened. (18) "samadhi": the five abhisambodhis. "wisdom": non-two wisdom.
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III. Non-two wisdom and Reality wisdom. (19) phra mo'i dňos po ci bżin mthon / (19) Seeing as it is, a subtle given thing,
| sdug pa'i dños po de bzin te so also is a pleasant given thing. The dis• dños dan dnos med khyad par ni / tinction of given thing and non-given thing
/ sgom pa kun tu brtags pa yin // is a consideration in all contemplations. (19) “subtle given thing ......”: the verse begins the instruction on non-two wisdom. "seeing as it is": with abatement of all emanation signs (as in verse 15, above), is initial (or, primordial) seeing ; subsequent thereto, one sees as it is such a given thing as moon, vajra, Buddha. "non-given thing": a term for a subtle given thing. (20) dňos po sgom pa'i dños ma yin/ (20) When there is no given thing for con
/ sgom par bya ba sgom pa min/ templating a given thing, it is not a condňos po sgoms par 'gyur ba yi/ templation of what should be contemran gi sems ni yons su sbyan // plated. When there is contemplation of a
given thing, one's own mind is purified. (20) "when there is no given thing": when there is no absolute seeing (don dam par
mthon ba), i, e, seeing as it is (as initial seeing] then one would contemplate the
| SR No. | 269565 |
| Book Title | Sarva Rahasya Tantra |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Alex Wayman |
| Publisher | Alex Wayman |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 29 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Article |
| File Size | 4 MB |