The Fivefold Practice
from The Essential Amrita of Profound Meaning: Oral Instructions and Practical Advice Bestowed Upon Fortunate Followers, Eye-opener to What is to be Adopted and Abandoned
by Chokgyur Lingpa
For the preliminaries, thoroughly cultivate loving kindness and compassion.
For the main practice of faith, the generation stage, and non-concept,
engender devotion to the guru as the actual buddha himself,
and understand your body to be the deity’s form, speech, and heart.
When you rest the observer in the immediacy of awareness,
you remain in the non-conceptual, in non-dual empty clarity;
free from fixation, no matter what unobstructed appearances arise.
Afterwards, dedicate toward great awakening the two accumulations.
This fivefold practice is the heart of the path.1
This was written by the Drikung follower, Könchok (Rare and Supreme),
also known as Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa.
| Lhasey Lotsawa Translations, 2021.
Bibliography
Source text
- mChog gyur gling pa, “rJes ’jug skal bzang rnams la bstal pa’i zhal gdams bslab bya nyams len gyi skor spang blang mig ’byed zab don snying gi bdud rtsi.” In mChog gling bka’ ’bum skor. Vol. 36 of mChog gling bde chen zhig po gling pa yi zab gter yid bzhin nor bu’i mdzod chen po, 87-88. Kathmandu, Nepal: Ka-nying Shedrub Ling monastery, 2004.
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This is the fivefold practice of mahāmudrā that is unique to the Drikung Kagyü school: train in bodhicitta, visualize your body as the deity, visualize the guru as the deity, train in the non-conceptual view, and seal with dedications and aspirations. ↩︎
