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The Introduction to Clarity Equal to the Limit

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Chapter 1: The Introduction


Homage to the glorious Vajrasattva!

These words were once said:


The teacher,

The teaching,

The place,

The audience,

And the time

Are a great wonder!


A La La!


The teacher is the All Aware King[101]

In the celestial palace of awareness.

The teaching is this Atiyoga.

The empty audience is the way things are,[102]

The matrix of all things.[103]

Grasping is the circle of suffering:

Samsara.

Wisdom is the circle of totally pure liberation.

The three times are understood at one time,

Using these three:

The way things are,

The way of Samsara,

and the way of liberation.

The All Good

Is the mind and the things it perceives.

The five elements turn out to be goddesses.

The five psycho-physical constituents[104]

Are the perfect Buddhas.

The collected Brave Hearts,[105]

The eight consciousness,

Are liberated.

The Heart Mothers,[106]

The eight objects [of consciousness]

Are understood.

Any genuine perspective

Must regard the solidity and wavering of the world,

And things of like nature,

As the illusion of relative wisdom.

Essentially there is only emptiness.

The boundaries of empty and not empty

Cannot be found.

All of this is the great Dharmakaya.

The four kinds of yogins,

As well as all the Buddhas of the three times,

Understand my true nature

And dwell in a single compassionate method:

“I have no definition.”


At that time and moment the Great Compassionate One[107] Avalokiteshvara was greatly afflicted by the Mightiest of gods, Indra, and addressed all the Buddhas of the ten directions with these words:

E Ma Ho!

All the Masters of Speech108

Have explained vehicles

That one must forever seek,

But they did not teach

The vehicle that can never be sought.

Why does the pathway

Of Great Compassion

Decline?[109]

There are fortunate disciples here!

I request a sky-like explanation of the

Tantra of Unborn Secret Wisdom[110]

Which is like an ambrosia

In its freedom from action.[111]


Thus he spoke.

Then all the Buddhas of the ten directions gathered their inspiration and with one voice gave instruction to Vajrasattva with these words:[112]


You are the compassionate true nature

Of all the Buddhas of the three times!

You arise as the Action of all Buddhas!

You enact the sacred deeds of Action!

You are the true nature of the wisdom

Of all the Masters of Speech!


Everything is clear in the Bodhicitta!

You, Secret Wisdom,[113] explain it!

You possess the essence of the Body

Of all the ones who move in bliss,

Without exception,

So spring forth in a Body of fabulous playfulness!

You were born to be a physical manifestation

[Of enlightenment]!

You are the distilled benefits

Of all the Masters of the three times.

Manifest the blessings of fabulous playfulness!

All benefits arise from you!

Your Mind,

Which is like the unborn sky,

Is a Master in comprehending all intentions,

While using but a single word.

O Door of the Living Essence

Which Manifests Things of Worth,

We beg you to teach the fortunate ones!

Thus they spoke.

Then the unborn Vajrasattva rose from the samadhi which is like the uncompounded true nature of a vajra:

E Ma!

The fabulous and wonderful crown

Has the means for the showing of Jewels!

Through the door which accommodates all desires

The unsought must be applied to letters![114]

The realness of the Bodhicitta

Is free from all the conventionalities of speech,

But for the intellect without understanding

The lamp of Speech must be illuminated

Using words.

Thus he spoke.

Then the Buddha Vajrasattva brought forth from his heart Vajrapani,[115] through the curl of hair at his jeweled heart. He put the self-burning vajra of wisdom, which severs Samsara into his hand, and said these words:

The meaning of non-dual secret wisdom,

The great wisdom which has no activities

And cannot be sought,

The straight path of the Great Middle,[116]

Must be taught to the gathered hosts!

Thus he spoke.

Then Vajrapani addressed Vajrasattva with these words:

He who contacts the end of all things

Is Great Sky Vajrasattva

The cognition of the sky is unborn,

And that very cognition is like the sky!

Whoever is blessed by the sky

Has his own greatest wishes made real by the sky!

The compassionate sky encompasses all!

This is the certain meaning,

The King of Dharma!

It is not in the domain of words!

It is extremely difficult

To gain liberation through me,

But it is possible

For those who have no understanding

By means of words,

For this is to be understood through signs.


There are fortunate disciples

And they will be liberated by what is reasonable.

Thus he spoke, and at that time there was a young deity, the deva Good Protection, who was the child of a deity by the name of Vital Essence of All Delight. He was also called the Boy of Inconceivable Appearance. So this one, a deity’s child, known as Windy Mind addressed the secret vajra:[117]

E Ma Ho!

For those of great might there is great wrathfulness!

The Virtuous One,

With his mantras of awareness and secret mantras,[118]

Controls all those who are difficult to control.

Praise and homage to the Brave Heart, Vajra!

What is it that is called: “wisdom”?

How is that which is called: “secret,” secret?

I request you to explain

That which is called: “Tantra.”

He said these things to him, and the Blessed One gave instruction:

The vital essence

That is unborn from the primeval

Is A.

The self-arising wisdom is your own mind!

One who desires great wisdom

Must search in his own mind!

This pervades and encompasses all,

But is discerned by means of its own secret.

So in order to hide secret wisdom,

It is called: “secret.”

That which is called a “Tantra

Is explained to be fourfold:

Tantras of the Base,[119]

Tantras of the Path,[120]

Tantras of the Result,121

And Combined Tantras.[122]

There is nothing whatever

Which is not contained in these [four].

The Base is the vital essence of the sun.

While the path is bliss like the sky.

The result is a wish fulfilling jewel.

While the combined is like an ocean.

Thus gave he instruction.

Then the Lord of Secrets, sitting on an Amolika throne in the divine realm of the Thirty Three,[123][124]where a four tiered golden reliquary sits atop the tree of life[124] with its nine-pointed vajra, invited the Pure Minded Ones. He placed them upon a burning wheel, a thousand spoked wheel of gold, which was covered by an umbrella of burning jewels. It was blessed by the Lord of Secret Mantras.[125] The king and his company[126][127]were given the vessel empowerment, then given the Untranscended Instructions.[127][128] They were taught the Vajra Bridge of the Ear Lineage.

At that very instant, there at the end of time, the twenty thousand sections of the Nine Spaces[128] were proclaimed for the sake of Burning Jewels.

What is this, that it should become so famous in the three divine realms, on account of the kindness of the Mightiest of the Gods?[129]

This transmission, which is the inspiration of the Victorious One, [transmitted] with the blessings of the Mind of the All Good, is propounded due to its blessings. It was proclaimed in the abode of the gods of Nothing Less.[130]

This transmission, granted through the awareness of the Vidyadharas, smiling with their lotus faces, is an explanation of one's own essence. It was proclaimed in the abode of the gods Having Delight. [131]

The transmission through the ear canal of ordinary individuals expands through the ten directions by the light rays of the tongue. It is the promulgation by means of composition and words. It was proclaimed in the abode of the Thirty-Three.

Then how did it come down to the Land of Jambhu?[132]

The heart-son of a prince, who was the emanation of an emanation,[133] the son of the Turbaned One of Urgyen, lived on the hill of the six-pointed jewel. A daughter of the king Dharma Asho [known as] Bliss Gone Enlightenment,[134] who lived in a cave in Danakoshali, The Rock Cave with Golden Pillars, went together with her servants to the meeting hall of Dahena.

He attained Buddhahood in one life! A son was born without a father! As soon as he was born he knew the Dharma! He was an Emanated Body![135][136] E Ma Ho! He delighted the master, the servants, and everyone, so he received the name Vajra of Supreme Delight.[136][137] He was the center of the Land of Jambhu and one to exceed kings. This prince brought forth great treasure for those who were suitable for secrets, using the transmission of the ear lineage.[137][138]He streamed forth the embellished instructions of symbolic meaning. He consecrated and empowered the king and his company, and established those students who were able on the level of Buddha.

Thus he spoke.

From Clarity Equal to the Limit this is the first chapter, The Introduction.



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