Resolution of doubts on conduct free of conceptual elaboration (Chapter Ten)

CMP 10.1

In the regions of the great forest, on a deserted mountain adorned with fruits, flowers, and the rest, this collection of meditations (dhyānasamuccaya (the compendium of meditative absorptions)) is to be accomplished.

CMP 10.2

Always enjoying the five strands of sense-pleasure—for those who, desiring knowledge, are [thus] impassioned. Thus [it is said].

CMP 10.3

The cultivation of the body, speech, and mind of the vajras of body, speech, and mind—that task [is to be done] by way of [their own] true nature; swift attainment is reached.

CMP 10.4

One should have made, according to the rite, a great image bearing a crown of matted locks, resembling white in color, wholly enclosed in the saṃvara of mantra.

CMP 10.5

Having taken a sixteen-year-old [consort], adorned with all ornaments, lovely of face and wide-eyed—having obtained [her], one should practice the consort-observance (vidyāvrata (the observance undertaken with a consort (vidyā))).

CMP 10.6

By the enjoyments of the rank of Locanā, with the vajra-emblems, one should cultivate [the union]—[with her who is] versed in the procedure of seal and mantra, well trained in mantra and tantra,

CMP 10.7

—he should make [her] a Tathāgata-consort, established in the awakening of a Buddha; the holder of the great observance should perform the secret worship at the four junctures [of day / with the four beings].

CMP 10.8

He should undertake all food and nourishment with bulbs, roots, and fruits; thus one would swiftly become a Buddha, a lord [who is] an ocean of great knowledge.

CMP 10.9

He would attain all that in just six months—there is no doubt here; the practitioner of firm resolve should always wander in the forest for alms.

CMP 10.10

Frightened by fear, they give [him] food, divinely adorned; if they transgress, the vajra-self would [bring] the destruction [whose seed-]syllable is vajra.

CMP 10.11

Having obtained a goddess, a nāga-woman, a great yakṣiṇī, an asura-woman, or even a human woman, the consort-observance is to be practiced, served by the knowledge of the three vajras. Thus [it is said].

CMP 10.12

By the attainment [of union] of the two organs, [there is] the procedure of exertion within; the joyous mind of the sage, in [the moment of] accomplishment, is remembered as the great bliss (mahāsukha (great bliss, the supreme tantric realization)).

CMP 10.colophon

[Here ends] the tenth chapter, the resolution of doubts about the integration [of the stages, concerning] conduct free of conceptual elaboration (niṣprapañca (free of conceptual elaboration)). // 10 //