Mind's nature is and always has been...
Mind's nature is and always has been...
attributed to Garab Dorje
སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཡེ་ནས་བུདྡྷ་སྟེ༔
སེམས་ལ་སྐྱེ་འགག་མེད་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་འདྲ༔
ཆོས་ཀུན་མཉམ་ཉིད་ཡང་དག་དོན་རྟོགས་ནས༔
དེ་ཉིད་མ་བཙལ་བཞག་ན་སྒོམ་པ་ཡིན༔
Mind’s nature is and always has been Buddha.
It has neither birth nor cessation, like space.
When you realize the real meaning of the equal nature of all things,
To remain in that state without searching[1] is meditation.
| Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2004. Revised and updated for Lotsawa House, 2025.
Cited in: Dharmaśrī. "rdor sems thugs kyi sgrub pa'i khrid yig rab gsal snang ba/." In rin chen gter mdzod chen mo. New Delhi: Shechen Publications, 2007–2008. Vol. 3: 234.
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Alak Zenkar Rinpoche says that the text has a variant reading, ma brtsol, meaning “without effort.” Both versions suggest an absence of mental fabrication or manipulation. ↩
