A Terma – Tantra (Revealed Text) of Tertön Rikdzing Chenpo « Godemchan », Nogdrub Gyeltsen (1337-1408), extract of « The Northern Treasures », one of the « Five Treasures ».
Godemchan was the supreme emanation , of the Spirit, of Guru Rinpoche and a reincarnation of one of his main disciple Nanan Dorje Dudjom.
Tertön Rikdzing Chenpo « Godemchan »
« THE WISH-GRANTING PRAYER OF KUNTU ZANGPO »
Epitome of the « Dzogchen Kunzang Gongpa Zanghedu Tenpaï Gyud » = « Tantra of Immediate Transference to the Dynamic of Kuntu Zangpo and Dzokchen »
(1) « HO ! Phenomena and noumena, samsara and nirvana,
The entire universe has one ground,
But alternative paths yield different results –
Displays of either Knowledge or ignorance – .
Through this wish-granting prayer of Kuntu Zangpo
May all beings attain consumate perfection and Buddhahood
In the Palace of Reality Continuum.
(2) The universal ground is unconditioned,
An unutterable, self-originating, vast expanse,
Where neither ”samsara” nor ”nirvana” are known.
Knowledge of this reality is Buddhahood,
While beings ignorant of it wander in samsara.
May all sentient beings of the three realms
Attain Knowledge of the inneffable ground of being.
(3) I, Kuntu Zangpo, also affirm this :
The ground of being is uncaused and unconditioned,
And Knowledge arises spontaneously within it
Free of defiling notions of inside and outside,
Free of boosting affirmation and diminishing negation,
While no trace of unmindfulness veils it :
Thus our self-manifest display is faultless.
In pristine intrinsic knowledge, abiding in stillness,
Though the three realms are destroyed there is no fear,
And there is no attachment to the five sensory qualities.
In self-originating thought-free perception
There is no material form and no five poisons.
As the unobstructed radiant aspect of Knowledge
One substance contains the five aspects of awareness ;
As this fivefold awareness evolves
The Five Modes of the Original Buddha emerge ;
Thereafter, fully-awakened awareness
Manifests as the Forty-two Buddhas,
And the arising creativity of fivefold awareness
Produces the Sixty Blood-drinking Buddhas :
Thus Knowledge of the ground of beings is never deluded.
Through the utterance of this, my wish-granting prayer,
After all sentient beings of samsara’s three realms
Have recognized self-originating Knowledge,
May the scope of awareness reach its optimal degree.
(4) My apparitional emanation an unceasing stream
I project incalculable myriads of forms
Displaying manifold illusion to convert all beings,
Whosoever and whatsoever they may be.
Through this, my compassionate wish-granting prayer,
May all creatures of samsara’s three realms
Escape the destinies of the six types of being.
(5) In the first place, deluded sentient beings
Lacked attentiveness and where bewildered
Because Knowledge did not arise in the ground :
This is the primary cause of ignorance and delusion.
There followed a sudden fainting away
Causing feelings of dread and neurotic vacillation
” I” was alienated from a hostile ”Other”, the ”Enemy”,
And the mind progressively conditioned by this tendency,
Samsara was established as a way of life.
The five poisons increasing, defilement resulted
And karma, five times poisoned, became an interminable stream.
Since the cause of sentient beings’ delusion
Is unmindfulness and absence of Knowledge,
Through this, my wish-granting prayer, the Buddha’s aspiration
May everyone recognize Knowledge spontaneously.
(6) ”Innate ignorance”
(Accompanying each moment of perception)
Implies unmindful, distracted cognition,
And ”conceptual ignorance”
(Selecting, structuring and labelling)
Implies dualistic cognition.
This twofold ignorance, innate and conceptual,
Forms the basis of all beings’ delusion.
Through this, the Buddha’s wish-granting prayer,
In all of samsara’s sentient beings,
– The gloom of their fogged, distracted minds dissolving,
Dualistic perception unified in pellucid clarity –
Let there be spontaneous recognition of Knowledge.
(7) The dualizing intellect is doubtful, fearful and insecure
It breeds subtle cravings
That gradually cristallize into overt, compulsive desires
Desire for food, wealth and clothing, home and friends,
For fivefold sensual pleasure and loving companions,
And the tormented yearning of sexual attraction.
All these, the obsessions of temporal, worldly delusion,
The karma of an ego craving objects, are never exhausted.
When the fruit of craving ripens,
Tormented by frustrated desire
There is rebirth as a hungry ghost.
Ah, the misery of hunger and thirst !
Through this, the Buddha’s wish-granting prayer,
Neither repressing or rejecting the pangs of frustration
Nor accepting or indulging obsessive lusts,
May all beings possessed by compulsive desires
Be released from the stresses of dualistic perception.
May Knowledge resume its natural primacy
And All-discriminating Awareness be attained.
(8) Confronted by appearances of external objects
There is tremulous vibration of fear in cognition.
When the tendency to aversion crystallizes as hatred,
Enmity breeds violent aggression leading to killing.
When the fruit of hatred ripens,
Ah, the agony of burning and boiling in hell !
Through this, the Buddha’s wish-granting prayer,
When aggressive hatred erupts
Neither inhibiting nor indulging it
But relaxing and releasing the stress,
May Knowledge resume its natural primacy.
May all the six types of beings
Attain the Awareness of Radiant Clarity.
(9) When the mind is inflated with confidence,
The intellect scornfully contending with others
Breeds a mind full of arrogant pride,
Creating violent confrontation or war
And all of its consequent suffering.
When the fruit of such karma ripens
A god is born, heir to decay and eventual downfall.
Through this, the Buddha’s wish-granting prayer,
May all beings prone to inflated confidence,
At its onset, relax, releasing the stress in perception,
Allowing Knowledge to resume its natural primacy
Attaining the Awareness of Sameness.
(10) The crystallized tendencies of an alienated mind,
Elevating self and diminishing others,
Breed the karma of contention and violent aggression.
This leads to rebirth as a murderous titan
In the anti-gods’ realm of constant conflict,
Where downfall to hell is the final outcome.
Through this, the Buddha’s wish-granting prayer,
When contention or violent confrontation arises,
May you break the habit of conceiving of others as enemies
And relax, releasing the stress in perception,
Allowing pure sensory consciousness its primacy,
Thus attaining the Awareness of Unhindered Action.
(11) Unmindfulness, apathy and a wandering mind,
Dullness, torpor and forgetfulness,
Languor, laziness and stupidity,
Result in rebirth as a wandering, homeless beast.
Through this, the Buddha’s wish-granting prayer,
May the radiance of mindful clarity dawn
In the gloom of sloth and depression
To bring Awareness of a Silent Mind.
(12) Every single sentient being of the three realms
Remains one with me, the Buddha, the Universal Ground.
Yet unmindful, they are lost in the ground of delusion,
Even now enacting karma that has no purpose.
The six types of karma are all delusory dream,
For I am the Buddha, the Original Buddha.
Transforming the six types of being by emanation,
And through this wish-granting prayer, Kuntu Zangpo’s prayer,
May all sentient beings without exception
Attain Buddhahood in the Continuum of Empty Reality.
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Compiled and translated from tibetan by Keith DOWMAN, 1994,
« The Fligth of the Garuda ». Teachings of the Dzokchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. pp 148-153.
Wisdom Publications Ed. Boston USA; a part of the FPMT organization.
Nb : the versification and verse or part numbers are the translator’s interpolation.
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