Advice to Yéshey Dawa

by Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoché, Rabsel Dawa

The creator of delusion and liberation in Saṃsāra and Nirvāṇa is one’s own mind.

Mind has the innate character of Emptiness: Beyond origination, cessation and duration.

Sustain the uncontrived reality of this innate character, with unwavering mindfulness.

The definitive meaning of the View, Meditation and Conduct, in their entirety, is subsumed within that.

At the request of the faithful Yéda (Yéshey Dawa, ye shes zla ba), this advice was imparted by Maṅgala.

(Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos.)

From the collected works of Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoché, Rabsel Dawa (dil mgo mkhyen brtse rin po che rab gsal zla ba), Volume 3 (ga pa), drug pa/ mgur ‘bum rdo rje’i glu’i skor, page 554.