Heart Of The Victors


Beginning and end depend on nothing but imagination.
Through wind like formation,
Karma and afflictions are created.
Through these, the skandhas, dhatus and ayatanas--
All dualistically appearing phenomena--are displayed.

The one who adopts and rejects these is mistakenness.
Through rejecting mind's own appearances, where
             should they cease?
Through adopting mind's own appearances, what
              should
                     come about?
Is clinging to duality not delusive?

Understanding this is indeed said to be the remedy,
But the thought of non duality is not real either,
For the lack of thought just turns into a thought.
You thought about emptiness, dissecting form and so
on
       into parts,
Are you not mistaken yourself?
Nevertheless, this was taught in order to stop the
clinging
       to reality.

All is neither real nor delusive--
Held to be like a reflection of the moon in water by
the
      learned.
Just this ordinary mind
Is call "dharmadhatu" and "Heart of the visitors."
It is neither to be improved by the noble ones
Nor made worse by sentient beings.


from Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Widsom and Buddha Nature.
Translated by Karl Brunnholzl