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The Three Principles of the Path: the View1
by Je Tsong kha pa (1357-1419)
(transl. by I. Durovic)
6 The reason for which the View is necessary:
Since one who is not endowed with the wisdom realizing the mode of abiding,
Albeit having become accustomed to definite emergence and Bodhicitta,
Will be unable to sever the root of existence,
Strive at means to realize interdependence !
7 The manner in which the View dawns:
Whoever sees that the causality of all phenomena of cyclic existence and Nirvana
Is never deceitful and
Has destroyed the targeted object,
Has entered the path which pleases the Buddhas.
For as long as the two-fold understanding of
Appearances as non-deceitful interdependence and
Assertionless emptiness
Appear separate, for so long has the thought of the Sage not been realized!
Eventually, if [they] are no longer posited separately but simultaneously [and]
Through merely seeing interdependence as non-deceitful,
Definite ascertainment destroys all of the modes of apprehension of objects,
Then, analysis of the view has been led to fruition.
8 Uncommon features of Prasangika-Madhyamika:
Moreover, when appearance dispels the extreme of existence,
Emptiness dispels the extreme of non-existence and emptiness
Is understood in the manner of dawning as causality,
One will not longer be ravaged by the view of the extremes.
9 Instruction on the necessity of solitary practice:
Upon having realized the essence
Of such Three Principles of the Path,
Dwell as a hermit, oh Child, and having generated the force of enthusiasm,
Swiftly attain your permanent goal !
The above was addressed by the glorious Bhikshu Lobsang Dragpa, great in learning, to Ngawang Dragpa, Lord of Tsago.
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We will rely on the outline in Bstan ‘dzin rgya mtsho, 14th Dalai Lama : “A Lamp for the Three Principles of the Path”, (“Lam gtso’i sgron me”, Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamsala, 2009)↩︎