Post #844

"The pure mind, the ubiquitous essence - it is spontaneously, originally, perfect; so strenuous engagement with the ten techniques is unnecessary, superfluous. I am inscrutable and cannot be cultivated. All the ten techniques are likewise transcended, so nothing can be done to affect me. Those who try to approach me on a causal path, desirous of catching a glimpse of my face, seeking me through the ten techniques, fall straight to earth like a tenderfoot sky-walker, tumbling down due to deliberate effort. I, the supreme source, I am the revelation, and transcend every sphere of activity, so a view of me cannot be cultivated, and the ten techniques are meaningless. If you still think that the ten techniques have purpose, look at me, and finding nothing to see, taking no view, remain at that zero-point. Nothing ever separates us from unoriginated simplicity, so vows and discipline are redundant; the essence is always spontaneously present, so any effort to find it is always superfluous; self-sprung awareness has never been obscured, so gnostic awareness cannot be generated; everybody already lives on my level, so there is no place to reach through purification; I embrace all and everything, so there can be no path that leads to me; I am forever incapable of dualization, so there is never anything to be labeled 'subtle'; my form embraces everything, so there has never been any 'duality'; I am self-sprung awareness from the very beginning, so I can never be nailed down; since I am the heart of total presence, there is no other source of secret precepts." — Samantabhadra Via RR