Heart Advice From Changchub Dorje
Heart Advice From Changchub Dorje
The Heart Advice from the Tibetan meditation master Nyakla Jangchub
KYE HO!
dear children, listen closely!
what you call mind isn’t anything at all
allow your own mind to look at itself.
past thoughts are no longer here, and
the future’s not yet here
and whatever arises now
is beyond reckoning.
let all thoughts
the past, present and future
settle, right now,
and in this moment
see how it is
if you see
colors & shapes
this is a sign
you’ve wandered
into the house of delusion.
you know,
you can investigate
meditate for a hundred years
and not be
moving towards freedom
great natural perfection
is present
awareness right now
whenever something
happens
don’t do
anything
with it
let it
settle by itself
thoughts are fuel
flaring up &
toxic
This one page text in Tibetan, entitled Nyag bla byang chub rdo rje’i rdzogs pa chen po ka dag
khregs chod lta sgom spyod ‘bras don mdor bsdus bstan pa, was translated by Steven Goodman, at
the urging of Lama Wangdor, on 25 June 2005 in Oakland, California. Disciple of Nyag bla
Padma bdud ‘dul, Nyag bla byang chub rdo rje, whose dates are sometimes given as 1838–1953,
was the principal Dzogchen teacher of the contemporary master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
Rinpoche.
Republished with permission from Tibetan Literary Arts, curated by Marit Cranmer, published by
Shang Shung Institute, Neilson Library, Smith College, May 2007.