Part 12 (2/2)
We confess this transgression within the expanse of supreme bliss, Which is free from conceptual elaboration!
How debilitating is the view which dualises good and evil, When Samantabhadra, [The Ever Perfect], is beyond good and evil!
How pitiful we are, clinging to purity and impurity!
We confess this transgression within the expanse, Which is free from the duality of good and evil!
How mistaken is the view which sees buddhas [as great] and sentient beings [as small], When, in the state of sameness, there is neither great nor small!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy of great and small!
We confess this transgression within the expanse of supreme bliss, which is sameness!
How debilitating is the view which dualises this life and the next, When the mind of enlightenment is free from birth or death!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy of birth and death!
We confess this transgression within the deathless, immutable expanse!
How mistaken is the view which dualises form and material substance, When the supreme seminal point is free from spatial dimensions!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy of corners and angles!
We confess this transgression within the supreme seminal point, which is all-embracing in its symmetry!23 How mistaken is the view which dualises beginning and end, When the essential nature of the three times is unchanging!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy of transitional processes!
We confess this transgression within the expanse of the three times, which is unchanging!
How debilitating is the view which dualises cause and effect, When the naturally present pristine cognition arises effortlessly!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy of effort and attainment!
We confess this transgression within the naturally present expanse, which arises without effort!
How pitiful is the view which dualises eternalism and nihilism, When the pristine cognition of [intrinsic] awareness is free from eternalism and nihilism!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy of existence and non-existence!
We confess this transgression within the expanse of pristine cognition, which is beyond eternalism and nihilism!24 How debilitating is the view which oscillates between biased positions, When the pure expanse of reality is free from middle and extremes!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy of middle and extremes!
We confess this transgression within the pure expanse of reality, which is free from a middle or extremes!
How debilitating is the view which dualises outside and inside, When the celestial palace is free from inner and outer dimensions!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy of s.p.a.ciousness and confinement!
We confess this transgression within the expanse [of the celestial palace], Which is free from the duality of s.p.a.ciousness and confinement, or of inner and outer dimensions!
How pitiful is the view which dualises 'higher and lower' [approaches], When the s.e.xual centre of the female consort is free from [the distinction between] higher and lower [energy centres]!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy between higher and lower [energy centres]!25 We confess this transgression within the expanse of the [consort's] secret place,26 Which is free from [the distinction between] higher and lower!
How debilitating is the view which dualises objects and mind, When the Buddha-body of Reality is free from individuated distinctions!
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy between the environment and its inhabitants!
We confess this transgression within [the expanse of] the Buddha-body of Reality, which is unchanging!
How debilitating is the view which discriminates between individual thoughts, When the dynamic of the male consort acts unconstrictedly!
How deluded we have been in clinging mistakenly to nominalism!
We confess this transgression within the expanse of the awareness holders, who are free from conceptual thoughts!
Since pristine cognition, which is intrinsic awareness, has not arisen within us, How pitiful is this mind obscured by ignorance, Which grasps immaterial phenomena as materially substantive!
We confess this transgression within the expanse of natural pristine cognition!
Since we have failed to understand the nature of uncreated truth, How tormented is this intellect of a bewildered being, Which apprehends the uncreated truth in terms of 'I' and 'mine'!
We confess this transgression within the expanse of supreme bliss, which is uncreated!
Since we have failed to mentally elucidate the nature of reality, We have not understood that phenomenal appearances are illusory, And thereby our minds have become attached to material wealth!
We confess this transgression within the uncreated reality, which is free from attachment!
Since we have failed to realise that cyclic existence is free from inherent existence, We have grasped at the self-existence of things and their characteristics, And thereby sought happiness through non-virtuous behaviour.
How deluded we have been in clinging to the dichotomy between hope and doubt!
We confess this transgression within the expanse of enlightenment, which is untainted!
Since we have failed to understand the truth of sameness with true equanimity, We have mistakenly clung to the permanence of relatives and friends.
How totally mistaken is this mind of ignorant people [such as ourselves]!
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