The Views of the Tenets གྲུབ་མཐའི་ལྟ་བ།

English translation by Ari Goldfield, French by Corinne Segers.

Review notes kindly provided by Claire Charasse.

Brief explanation of the fundamental necessity of giving rise to love and compassion at the beginning og the Mahayana path and to understand genuine reality. Preliminary explanation on the view of mahamudra and dzogchen. Rinpoche composes 6 verses and explain them:

If you have faith in the genuine Dharma and joyous diligence in its practice
Purify your mind stream with great love and compassion
And never give up the effort to accomplish great benefit
For all senteing beings including your ennemies.
Never become discourage. (1)

If you have enough intelligence to realize the abiding nature of reality
See that the five agregates are not a self
And that the mind that believes that there is a self is not the self either
When you gain certainty in this
Rest right within your certainty of selflesness. (2)

Perceived objets are the confused projections of habitual tendencies
So they do not truly really exist
Since there is no perceived object
Than the perceiving mind is not real either
Knowing this, gain certainty that reality is empty of duality
And within that certainty, without trying to fix or change anything,
Let go and relax. (3)

Since they are neither one thing or many things
Phenomena have no inherent nature
Since they do not arise, abide or cease
Thoughts have no inherent nature
Since they neither hold one captive or set one free
The kleshas, the mental afflictions have no inherent nature
When you know this well, relax within great emptiness. (4)

Know that reality is beyond all concepts of what it might be
The concepts of existence, non existence etc.
The concepts of emptiness and not emptiness etc.
The concept of realisme and nihilisme etc.
Reality transcends all conceptual fabrication. (5)

When you analyse mind, you can not find any essence
Neverthelesss, when you don’t analyse and just relax
The experience of clarity and luminosity is inceasing
Therefore mind is clarity and emptiness inseparable
As it has been from the beginning
This clarity emptiness is renowned as the buddha nature. (6)