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 10.8 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 10.8]
Those who begin to study and so forth.
Without pleasing the roaster
And without obtaining empowerment.
Will have no result, and will be lost. [8][Tibetan]
slob-dpon mnyes-par ma-byas-shing /
dbang-rnams thob-par ma-byas-par /
nyan-pa la-sogs rtsom-pa-rnams /
'bras-bu med-cing brlag-par 'gyur / [8]
Commentary:
[The third section (of the empowerments of ability) concerns the defects of not possessing empowerment. (It comments on Ch. 10.8):]
Those who begin to (rtsom-pa-rnams) study (nyan-pa) the secret mantras, or to attain them, or explain them to others, and so forth (la-sogs), without pleasing the master (slob-dpon mnyes-par ma-byas) of the secret mantras by means of body, speech, mind, and material necessities, and (shing) without obtaining (thob-par ma-byas-par) in their minds the outer, inner, and secret empowerments (dbang-rnams) will have no (med) result ('bras-bu), attainment or accomplishment in this lifetime, and (cing), experiencing suffering in evil existences during subsequent lives, they will be lost (brlag-par 'gyur). This is because they squander the empowerment into the profound doctrine.
It says in the Tantra of the Ocean of Activity (las-kyi rgya-mtsho'i rgyud):
Without obtaining the empowerments,
It is wrong to practice the secret mantras.
[Empowerments of Beneficence (376.4-377.5):]
[Secondly (see p. 870), there are the empowerments of beneficence (which comment on Ch. 10.9):]
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