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And plunge even to the depths of relentless hells.<ref>Jinpa, ''Commentary on the Awakening Mind'', 9, https://tibetanclassics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Awakening-Mind-Commentary.pdf.</ref> | And plunge even to the depths of relentless hells.<ref>Jinpa, ''Commentary on the Awakening Mind'', 9, https://tibetanclassics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Awakening-Mind-Commentary.pdf.</ref> | ||
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In the last verse of the chapter, Śāntideva speaks of his continual wish to pacify the mistaken clinging that all living beings possess, the belief in an inherent self and inherent phenomena. He again asks himself, "When will I reveal this truth of emptiness to those beings who suffer in cyclic existence because of their belief in intrinsic existence?" This verse refers to the accumulation of wisdom, which comes from studying, contemplation, and meditation on the ultimate nature of phenomena. | |||
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Gyaltsap Je summarizes how we meditate on the union of calm abiding and special insight as follows: | |||
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|quote-text=In short, one should meditate on the mode of abiding in dependence on calm abiding. Further, because the 'I' of the thought 'I' is established as merely labeled in dependence on the aggregates and does not exist inherently, it does not exist intrinsically, it is not established in the slightest in an independent mode. Therefore, the existent person is merely posited in name, it exists only as labeled and in a dependent mode. Hence, take to heart, 'It does not exist inherently'.<ref>Stracke, ''Entrance for the Children: Chapter Nine'', 82, https://research.tsadra.org/img_auth.php/9/9c/Stracke_Fedor_trans_2016_The_Entrance_for_the_Children_of_the_Conquerors_Happy_Monk_Publication.pdf.</ref> | |||
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Having understood the way things exist and how ignorance of the nature of reality traps beings in the continual cycle of suffering in samsara, we should then develop the strong wish to reveal this truth of emptiness to all beings, that they may cultivate that understanding and themselves attain the highest state of enlightenment. | |||
<h4>The Results of Practice</h4> | |||
At the very end of his commentary entitled ''A Step-by-Step Guide to Meditating on the Bodhicaryāvatāra'', Patrul Rinpoche discusses the result of practicing in the way outlined in Śāntideva's text. | |||
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|quote-text=By seeing the relative to be a mere display like a magical illusion or the experiences of a dream, we will train in vast enlightened activity in which the seven kinds of attachment are relinquished. And with the understanding that on the ultimate level all things and events lack even so much as an atom's worth of true existence, we will take this practice to heart without becoming attached to anything whatsoever. | |||
May the Dharma, suffering's only cure, | |||
And the source of all real happiness, | |||
Always be valued and respected, | |||
And remain long into the future! | |||
This was spoken by Ragged Abu. May all be virtuous and auspicious!<ref>Adam Pearcy, trans., ''The Brightly Shining Sun'', by Patrul Rinpoche (Lotsawa House, 2019), https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/patrul-rinpoche/bodhicharyavatara-brightly-shining-sun.</ref> | |||
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Understanding that all phenomena lack even an atom of intrinsic existence, knowing things to exist merely as a magical illusion, and dropping any kind of attachment, we head out onto the path of the Buddhadharma, which leads to the state of full enlightenment. | |||
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