Aspiration for the Definitive Meaning
By Kunkhyen Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen This text is included in The Treasury of Definitive Meaning, a non- profit initiative to preserve and transmit the Dzokden Dharma as a cause for manifesting a golden age of peace and harmony in this world.
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iii s. SUMMARY
Aspirations to swiftly clear away all obscurations which prevent the realisation of the definitive meaning of the Great Middle ayW . ac. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Originally published by the Jonang Foundation. Translation into English by Michael R. Sheehy (Ngedon Tenzin Dargyay) and lightly edited by Ven. Tenpa'i Gyaltsen.
iv tr. THE TRANSLATION Aspiration of Ultimate Definitive Meaning
OM! Let there be auspiciousness!
In all my lifetimes, may the three trainings, the three precepts, and all my tantric commitments be completely pure without blemishes!
May my bodily postures, yogic gaze, and all of the extremely fine vital winds and mind internally cease, naturally cease, perpetually cease, and greatly cease!
May the entirety of ordinary awareness swiftly cease so that all beings may benefit from swiftly realizing pristine awareness!
May ordinary awareness as the universal ground swiftly cease so that the great bliss which is pristine awareness as the universal ground magnificently pervading space is swiftly realized!
May the pristine awareness which arises extrinsically swiftly come about so that the naturally manifesting pristine awareness magnificently pervading space is swiftly realized!
May all conceptual imputations swiftly cease so that all beings may benefit from swiftly realizing what is perfectly established!
May all incidental obscurations swiftly cease so that beings as vast as space may benefit from swiftly realizing their enlightened essence!
May all external and internal obscurations swiftly cease so that passing beyond into the other supreme state of a primordial Buddha is swiftly realized!
May all enduring defilements totally cease so that all beings may benefit from realizing every quality of the Middle Way!
May all defiled incidental phenomena swiftly cease so that the genuine nature of phenomena which is great bliss beyond enumeration is realized!
May all defilements of discursive thinking totally cease so that the Mahamudra of non-discursive pristine awareness is swiftly realized!
May attachment to transference of the vital winds and mind totally cease so that the great bliss of the un-subsiding Mahamudra is swiftly realized!
1 May Buddhahood which resides from the very beginning beyond enumeration as the qualities of the ultimate dharmakaya be swiftly realized for the final benefit of oneself!
May the marvelous qualities of the relative rupakayas completely come about in order to benefit beings as vast as space! c. COLOPHON
This “Aspiration Prayer of the Ultimate Definitive Meaning” was arranged and taught by the one endowed with the four kinds of reliance (Kunkhyen Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen) for the benefit of beings.
Translated by Michael R. Sheehy (Ngedon Tenzin Dargyay) at Drepung Stupa, India (01/16/06) under the guidance of Khenpo Kunga Sherab Saljay. Lightly edited by Ven. Tenpa'i Gyaltsen
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