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Parting from the Four Attachments
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The Instructions on Parting from the Four Attachments
Om Svasti Siddhi!
When he reached the age of twelve, the great Sachen Kunga Nyingpo undertook a six-month practice of the bodhisattva Manjushri. One day he had a vision, in which he actually saw, amidst a brilliant blaze of light and seated on a jewelled throne with his feet placed on the ground, the holy Lord Manjushri, orange in colour, his hands in the mudra of explaining the Dharma, and with an attendant bodhisattva on either side of him.
Manjushri spoke to him:
“If you are attached to this life, you are not a true spiritual practitioner;
If you are attached to samsara, you do not have renunciation;
If you are attached to your own self-interest, you do not have bodhichitta;
If there is grasping, you do not have the View.”
When Sachen Kunga Nyingpo examined the truth of these words, he understood that the entire practice of the path of the paramitas was condensed into training the mind in parting from these four attachments, and he attained a special conviction and insight into all the teachings of the Dharma.
Saptamiti!
| Rigpa Translations 2011
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo
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