The Progressive Stages IV

KTGR CO flying Khenpo Tsültrim
Gyamtso Rinpoche

Quote of the Week

March 30, 2012

The Progressive Stages of
Meditation on Emptiness IV

Mind-Only:
Conduct & Fruition

Conduct
Just as with a dream, to cling as real to the dualistic appearances
Of apprehender and apprehended is confusion.
Knowing this, while recalling with certainty the view of emptiness of duality,
Engage in all activities: eating, sleeping, walking or sitting.

Fruition
When dharmata, empty of duality, is realized directly,
The confusion of dualistic appearances will gradually dissolve.
It is said that when non-dual dharmadhatu manifests,
Perfect enlightenment is attained.

At the Dzogchen Palace of Appearance-Emptiness, Sherab Lodro [Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche] spoke this extemporaneously, whereupon Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche immediately wrote it down.

Translated under the direction of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche by Tyler Dewar of the Nitartha Translation Network, 2002.