The Questions of Tönyön Samdrup
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Therefore, dharma such as this is different from the dharma systems of others. Thus is it of profound significance, noble son. “Some common people have glimpses and concentrations26 of a mere emptiness or mere clarity of the characteristic of real mind. Then those ignoramuses call it ‘mah›mudr›.’ Those who practice such a mah›mudr› without knowing that it is just the characteristic of unreal mind are idiots practicing a dharma system of fools. Pay no attention to it. Fling it far away. “All phenomena are contained in the midst of mind-itself alone. Therefore, to know the center of mind alone is to know the center of all phenomena. My dharma, therefore, is the great Middle Way (dbu ma chen po; m›dhyamaka). “This dharma of mine is the fruitional dharma of the Great Completion (rzogs chen; mah›sa˚dhi). All phenomena including the apparent existence of cyclic existence and its transcendence are complete within mind-itself alone. Therefore, if one knows the complete way in which everything is contained within the meaning of mind alone, then the meaning of all phenomena is complete. So it is the Great Completion. Understand this, my disciples.” Then Machik and her entourage came down and stayed for one month at Sakar, near Nol,27 and Machik gave the complete exposition according to the p›ramit› tradition, called Moonlight Dispelling Darkness.28 That was the third chapter from the pure appearance of the dialogue of mother and son.