A Principle of Mind
A Principle of Mind[1]
by Mipham Rinpoche
Namo guru mañjuśriye!
This unfabricated genuine awareness, open and spacious,
Is not indicated through words but personally understood.
When the guru’s blessings seep in, realization is effortless.
Seeing this, you’ll know how to sustain the unaltered.
It’s not a matter of thinking, “I’ll sustain the mind.”
Nor should you deliberately think, “I’ll not sustain it.”
Instead, leave mind as it is, and it will be naturally clear.
The yoga of self-sustaining natural settling is the best meditation.
Once this is familiar, in genuineness with nothing to do,
As various thoughts occur without benefit or harm,
Like clouds forming in and floating through space,
There is the blissful yoga of carefree ease—A la la!
This key instruction is imparted to the child of my heart.
Jampal Dorje wrote this during a break between practice sessions on the nineteenth day of the second month in the Fire Monkey year.[2] Maṅgalam!
| Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2026.
Bibliography
Tibetan Edition
'ju mi pham ʼjam dbyangs rnam rgyal rgya mtsho. "sems don." In gsung 'bum mi pham rgya mtsho. [Gangs can rig gzhung dpe rnying myur skyobs lhan tshogs], 2007. Vol. 32:. 466–467
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