Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary)
by Gyurme Dorje | 1987 | 304,894 words
The English translation of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, including Longchenpa's commentary from the 14th century. The whole work is presented as a critical investigation into the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, of which the Guhyagarbhatantra is it's principle text. It contains twenty-two chapters teaching the essence and practice of Mahayoga, which s...
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Introduction 3.3: The result Achieved through Meditation
[Introduction (3): Empowerment and Its Result鈥�(C). The Result of Meditation through the Creation and Perfection Stages]
The third section (of the third aspect of the overview鈥攕ee p. 783) is a teaching on the result of meditation through the creation and perfection stages. It has two parts, among which the former (concerns the provisional results).
1. The provisional results:
Provisionally, those who have obtained empowerment maintain the commitments. By meditation on the stages of creation and perfection, they obtain the status of an awareness-holder of maturation (rnam-smin rig-'dzin), and thence the status of an awareness-holder with power over the lifespan (tshe-dbang rig-'dzin).[1]
The Secret Nucleus (Ch. 9, 32) accordingly says:
The genuine accomplishment of empowered awareness
Will be achieved in six or twelve months,
Or in fourteen or in sixteen.
And on that basis one will also accomplish the status of an awareness-holder of the great seal (phyag-chen rig-'dzin).[2]
2. The conclusive result:
Then concerning the conclusive result, one will obtain the status of an awareness-holder of spontaneous presence (lhun-grub rig-'dzin).[3]
The Secret Nucleus (Ch. 9, 32) continues:
Within sixteen lifetimes one will (obtain)
The spontaneously perfect five Buddha-bodies.
While it is also reported that supreme accomplishment will be attained in about sixteen lifespans of one hundred years, the number of years contained in these sixteen lifespans, in which individual awareness-holders actually become accomplished, is calculated tn terms of the lifespan of their own human contemporaries.[4]
The Indestructible Peak (T. 480) indeed says:
At the conclusion of sixteen births
The Buddha-hood of quiescence will be obtained.
This concludes the exegesis of the overview.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
On these types of 惫颈诲测腻诲丑补谤补. see also below, pp. 853-854, 959-961.
[2]:
See below, p. 961.
[3]:
See below, pp. 854-862, 962-969.
[4]:
This point is elaborated in pp. 853-854.