Longchen Rabjam
- Begginning meditation
Beginners will first meditate upon equanimity. Once that is established, they will then meditate upon the remaining three immeasurable qualities of love, compassion, and joy.
Longchen Rabjam
- Self-knowing awareness.
All phenomena are embraced within a single self-knowing awareness. Even though they arise as the totality of samsara and nirvana, the phenomena of the world of appearances and possibilities- limitless, boundless-arise from basic space. Therefore, they are subsumed within basic space from which the first arise.
Longchen Rabjam
- Cut off attachments
Although other (yanas) assert that liberation will be achieved by renouncing the objects, one will not be bound by the mere appearances or the mind and the objects (Yul Dang Ch'os-Su sNang-Ba), but will be bound if one attaches (Zhen-Pa) to them. So it is taught (in scriptures) that one should renounce apprehension and attachment. Tilopa said: 'Appearances do not bind, but attachments do. So, Naropa, cut off the attachments...
Longchen Rabjam
- Four times
In any of the four times and ten directions Enlightenment will not be found Except in the Mind, which is the fully enlightened state. Do not seek the Buddha in any other source. (Otherwise) even if the Buddha (himself) searches, it will not be found.
