Sample translation · Level 5
The Vajra Wisdom of Great Bliss
A Practice Manual for the Profound Path of Nāropa’s Six Dharmas
This preliminary English translation is shared as a sample for study and may be revised before publication.
Second
How to Meditate on the Six Dharmas of the Completion Stage
By striking the vital points of the channels, winds, and drops
This has three parts:
- The reasoning establishing why it is necessary to meditate on the completion stage in order to attain Buddhahood
- How, because the path of Secret Mantra is swift, Buddhahood can be attained within a single lifetime
- How a beginner should practice the completion-stage teachings through which Buddhahood can be attained within a single lifetime
The first
The Necessity of Completion-Stage Meditation
When explained from the standpoint of the result to be accomplished, it is absolutely necessary that one must meditate on the completion stage in order to attain Buddhahood. The reason is that the ultimate attainment of Buddhahood is the union of body and mind of one taste in which the following have become inseparably of one nature: the innate mind transformed into great bliss, and the wisdom directly realizing emptiness which arises from all karmic winds and conceptual masses entering the central channel—and which has abandoned every obscuration without exception; and the wind that is the objective aspect, or mount, of that very wisdom, transformed into a body complete in every aspect.
As for the means of attaining such a state, one must attain the union of body and mind of one taste at the learning stage on the path of meditation. In this state, all the root and branch winds have entered the central channel; the innate mind has become the wisdom of bliss and emptiness that directly realizes emptiness and has abandoned all afflictive obscurations without exception; and the wind that serves as the mount of that wisdom of bliss and emptiness has transformed into the male and female wisdom deities, these having become of one nature.
That buddhahood cannot be attained without such a union of body and mind of one taste at the learning stage on the path of meditation is the very nature of things—the natural law of cause and effect. This was taught by the Bhagavān Buddha himself.