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Today’s show is dedicated to the Sachen Kunga Nyingpo Memorial Day. Today, we are pleased to share Drakpa Gyaltsen's famous commentary on the four-line instruction that his father, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, received from Mañjuśrī. It is so closely associated with the root text that it is often known by the same title, Parting from the Four Attachments. Instruction on Parting from the Four Attachments by Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen (son of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo) “Homage O Master with all your kindness, Yidam deity with your compassion, In you I take refuge from the depths of my heart: Grant me your blessings, I pray! Promise to Compose Behavior that goes against the Dharma must be stopped, And so, in order to practise the Dharma correctly, Here is the instruction on ‘Parting from the Four Attachments,’ Which now I shall offer to your ears: “If you are attached to this life, you are not a true spiritual practitioner; If you are attached to Saṃsāra, you have no renunciation; If you are attached to your own self-interest, you have no bodhicitta; If there is grasping, you do not have the View.” Relinquishing Attachment to This Life Discipline, study, reflection, and meditation Undertaken for the sake of just this life— Give them all up, for they are not the Dharma! […]Relinquishing Attachment to Saṃsāra In order to attain nirvāṇa, beyond all sorrow, Abandon attachment to the three realms of Saṃsāra. And in order to relinquish attachment to the three realms, Reflect on the faults of saṃsāric existence: First, there is suffering upon suffering Which is the suffering of the three lower realms. Contemplate this deeply, and you will break out in goose pimples; If it actually befalls you, it will be beyond your power to endure. But by failing to practise the virtue of restraint, You keep on tilling the fields of the lower realms, And there, wherever you find yourself, how dreadful it will be! Contemplate the suffering of change, And how you can fall from higher to lower realms, How Indra, lord of gods, can be reborn as an ordinary mortal, the Sun and Moon can turn dark, And the emperor of the world can be reborn as a humble servant. Such examples are to be trusted as they come from the scriptures, Yet they are hard for ordinary beings to comprehend. So just look then, with your own eyes, at the changes among humans: The wealthy turn into beggars, The powerful grow weak, Out of many people, only one survives... And so on, beyond our mind’s imagining. To contemplate the suffering of conditioning, See how there is never an end of things to do, And suffering is found among the many and the few, Among the well-off and the starving alike. Our whole human life is spent preparing, And in the midst of our preparing, we are swept away by death; But not even in death is there any end to preparation, As once again we begin making ready for the next life. How perverse they are who keep clinging To this heap of misery that is Saṃsāra! When free from such attachment, there is nirvāṇa, And in nirvana, the attainment of lasting bliss. I sing of my realization— freedom from attachment to this life and Saṃsāra.” […]
