The Bodhicitta is not static,
By its very nature.
The three-hundred-sixty false understandings Turn out to be ways of making something existent Out of non-existence, And continue to be vehicles For the world of our cravings.
The Bodhicitta is not generated.
It does not end.
It is like the sky.
It does not depend on anything.
It is beyond ideas and practices.
It has been proclaimed to be
The vehicle of uncontrived perfection.
The ten scriptures that have been published Clearly teach that there is one true nature.
This is the core of three transmissions, Brought together.
It is a secret treasure that joins all the tridents.
Mind is self-originating.
It pervades space.
It is not a dharma that is to be divided up.
It is through the special qualities of playfulness That the teaching that the mind is, in itself, nine spaces Has been promulgated.
The transmission of the view of self-originating perfection Brings everything together, With nothing left out.
All things are perfected in a single circle, And they play within a single self-originating heart.
The secret circle is a dominion for all things.
It remains natural,
Without border or end.
The secret in all things
Is self-originating sentience.
Self-awareness is devoid of non-awareness.
We abandon the consciousness
That awareness is an idea or an application.
Na een formele opleiding in Tibetaanse en Sanskriet talen, studeerde hij in 1980 af met een BA in Aziatische Talen en Literatuur en een BA in Vergelijkende Religie aan de Universiteit van Washington. Na twee jaar rondreizen langs de heilige plaatsen van Azië, onder meer in India en Nepal, werkte hij vijf jaar in de vluchtelingenopvang in Seattle, Washington. Omdat hij zich weer wilde verdiepen in boeddhistische studies, ging hij naar de Universiteit van Calgary, waar hij in 1988 zijn MA behaalde.