HERE IS THE ORAL INSTRUCTION ON THE THREE ESSENTIAL WORDS

NAMO MAÑJUSHRIYE — Homage to Mañjushrî!

Pure awareness cannot be pointed out in words
To ordinary everyday knowledge which is lazy and remiss, but arises of itself.
When you turn back upon itself the contrived and artificial mind of grasping and attachment,
The essence of mind is awareness.

Unbound by entanglement in discursive thoughts,
Leave the natural state as it is and do not let it slip away.
Where doing, effort, purposefulness and grasping are non–existent,
This is maintaining and fostering the state of continuous meditation.

Like clouds arising in space,
The various discursive thoughts stream on in endless waves.
When mind is naturally blissful, free from benefit or harm,
This is natural liberation in its own place.

This is the oral instruction on the three essential words.
By experiencing inwardly you will understand.
 
 

This loose–mouthed and ignorant babble, devoid of dialectics and argument,
Was written down by Mip'am Nampar Gyälwa (The Unconquerable and Thoroughly Victorious One)
On the tenth day of the month in the fire monkey year.