Tightly focused and loosely relaxed...
Tightly focused and loosely relaxed...
attributed to Machik Labdrön
གྲིམས་ཀྱིས་སྒྲིམ་ལ་ལྷོད་ཀྱིས་གློད། །
དེ་ན་ལྟ་བའི་གནད་ཅིག་ཡོད། །
Tightly focused and loosely relaxed:
Therein lies a key point of the view.[1]
| Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2004. Revised and updated for Lotsawa House, 2025.
Cited in: o rgyan 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po. "snying tig sngon 'gro'i khrid yig kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung/." In gsung 'bum/_o rgyan 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po. 8 vols. Chengdu: si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2003. (BDRC W24829). Vol. 7: 17.
Version: 1.0-20251007
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An alternative version reads: Therein lies a key point for the mind (sems kyi gnad cig de na gda'/). ↩