The Great Bundle of Precepts. The Source Esoteric Instruction on Severance, the Profound Perfection of Wisdom
The Great Bundle of Precepts. The Source Esoteric Instruction on Severance, the Profound Perfection of Wisdom
The Great Bundle of Precepts
The Source Esoteric Instruction on Severance,
the Profound Perfection of Wisdom[1]
Homage to the unspeakable, unthinkable, unimaginable state;
basic space beyond objects, without reference.
This Great Bundle of Precepts on Severance
is written in hopes of benefiting a few.2
The root devilry is one's own mind.
The devil lays hold through clinging and attachment
in the cognition of whatever objects appear.
Grasping mind as an object is corruption.
Devils are classified as four:
tangible devil3 and intangible devil,4
the devil of exaltation5 and the devil of inflation.
All are included in the devil of inflation.
Tangible devils are numerous, however
Notes
- ↑ Shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa zab mo gcod kyi man ngag gi gzhung bka' tshoms chen mo. In Source Texts of Severance of Evil Object, the Profound Meaning of the Perfection of Wisdom (Shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa zab don bdud kyi gcod yul gyi gzhung). gDams ngag mdzod, vol. 14 (pha) ff. 4a3-9a1 (pp. 7-17). Other editions: Ma gcig gi bka’ tshoms. In Longchenpa’s Collected Works (Kun mkhyen klong chen rab byams kyi gsung ’bum), vol. 26, pp. 291-300 (partial); Shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa zab mo gcod kyi mang nag gi gzhung bka’ tshoms chen mo, Sean’s edition, pp. 97-113. shes ra
According to The Religious History of Zhije and Chöd (gCod chos byung), this was taught in one day to the three Indians who arrived by swift foot to check up on Machik's authenticity Also see Machik's Complete Explanation 94, where she explains the name "bunch of pecepts" as meaning that it is based on the long, middle-length, and short precepts of the Buddha Shakyamuni, which she had studied previously.