The Natural Freedom of the Nature of Mind
The Natural Freedom of the Nature of Mind (Tib. སེམས་ཉིད་རང་གྲོལ་, Semnyi Rangdrol; Wyl. sems nyid rang grol) - part of Longchenpa's Trilogy of Natural Freedom. It has three chapters, related to the Ground, Path and Fruition, and it contains the oft-quoted lines:
- Since everything is but an illusion,
- Perfect in being what it is,
- Having nothing to do with good or bad,
- Acceptance or rejection,
- One might as well burst out laughing!
- ཐམས་ཅད་མཉམ་རྫོགས་སྒྱུ་མའི་རང་བཞིན་ལ། །
- བཟང་ངན་བླང་དོར་མེད་པས་དགོད་རེ་བྲོ། །
- thams cad mnyam rdzogs sgyu ma'i rang bzhin la//
- bzang ngan blang dor med pas dgod re bro//
Translations
- The Natural Freedom of Mind, translated by Herbert V. Guenther, in Crystal Mirror IV (Dharma Publishing, 1975), pages 113-146.
- Colophon: This 'Natural Freedom of Mind' has been composed for the benefit of future generations by the yogi Dri-med 'od-zer (Klong-chen rab-'byams-pa), having been blessed by the sublime teacher from Uḍḍiyāna, Padmasambhava, at O-rgyan-rdzong, an ornament of Gangs-ri thod-dkar.
- Longchen Rabjam, The Practice of Dzogchen, translated by Tulku Thondup, Snow Lion, 2002