Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary)
by Gyurme Dorje | 1987 | 304,894 words
The English translation of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, including Longchenpa's commentary from the 14th century. The whole work is presented as a critical investigation into the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, of which the Guhyagarbhatantra is it's principle text. It contains twenty-two chapters teaching the essence and practice of Mahayoga, which s...
Text 9.12 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 9.12]
And one should meditate on the great seal
Through which these offerings are made. [12][Tibetan]
mchod-pa'i phyag-rgya chen-por bsgom /
Commentary:
[The offerings of pristine cognition, which is the ultimate reality of this perfection stage:]
And, in order to renounce actual attachment to these offerings of contemplation, one should meditate on the great seal through which these offerings are made (mchod-pa'i phyag-rgya chen-por bsgom). This accords with (the view) or tradition that these offering clouds do not exist anywhere apart from one's own mind, that the mind too is of a sky-like nature, without abiding anywhere, and that the threefold Interaction of the object of offering, the subject of offering, and the act of offering is essenceless in that disposition, free from all extremes of conceptual elaboration. One of highest intelligence meditates in this way from the very moment when the offerings are made, and is without grasping or attachment, and one of lower intelligence is established subsequently in that non-referential disposition.[1]
It says in the Sūtra of the lamp of Precious Gems (T. 145):
Know the object to which offerings are made to be sky-like.
And the subject who makes them to be non-referential,
Without apprehension in any respect.
This is the most genuine of all offerings.
Which will excellently obtain the inestimable.
Unthinkable pristine cognition.
The second part (see p. 820) concerns the secret offerings of supreme bliss. These Include both offerings of the supreme bliss of skillful means, and offerings of discriminative awareness which does not abide in the two extremes.
[The former comprises both the actual offerings and a teaching on their beneficial attributes, and the first of these (comments on Ch. 9. 13):]
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Footnotes and references:
[1]:
The subsequent establishment is also known as the "absorption which follows after insight" (mthong-ba'i rjes-la 'jog-pa) which occurs through blessing and after recalling the view that one has studied and pondered. See NSTB, Book 2, Pt. 4, pp. 161-163. in the context of the perfection stage of Mahāyoga.