My apparitional emanation an unceasing stream I project incalculable myriads of forms Displaying manifold illusion to convert all beings, Whosoever

and whatsoever they may be. Through this, my compassionate wish-granting prayer, May all creatures of samsara's three realms Escape the destinies of the six types of being. (5) In the first place, deluded sentient beings Lacked attentiveness and were bewildered Because Awareness did not arise in the ground: This is the primary cause of ignorance and delusion. There followed a sudden fainting away Causing feelings of dread and neurotic vacillation; "I" was alienated from a hostile "other", "the enemy", And the mind progressively conditioned by this tendency Samsara was established as a way of life. The five poisons increasing, defilement resulted And karma, five times poisoned, became an interminable stream. Since the cause of sentient beings' delusion Is unmindfulness and absence of Awareness, Through this, my wish-granting prayer, the Buddha's aspiration, May everyone recognize Awareness spontaneously.

(6) "Innate ignorance" (Accompanying each moment of perception) Implies unmindful, distracted cognition, And "conceptual ignorance" (Selecting, structuring and labelling) Implies dualistic cognition. This twofold ignorance, innate and conceptual, Forms the basis of all beings' delusion. Through this, the Buddha's wish-granting prayer, In all of samsara's sentient beings -The gloom of their fogged, distracted minds dissolving, Dualistic perception unified in pellucid clarity -Let there be spontaneous recognition of Awareness. (7) The dualizing intellect is doubtful, fearful and insecure; It breeds subtle cravings

That gradually crystallize into overt, compulsive desires: Desire for food, wealth and clothing, home and friends, For fivefold sensual pleasure and loving companions, And the tormented yearning of sexual attraction. All these, the obsessions of temporal, worldly delusion, The karma of an ego craving objects, are never exhausted. When the fruit of craving ripens, Tormented by frustrated desire There is rebirth as a hungry ghost. Ah, the misery of hunger and thirst! Through this, the Buddha's wish-granting prayer, Neither repressing or rejecting the pangs of frustration Nor accepting or indulging obsessive lusts, May all beings possessed by compulsive desires Be released from the stresses of dualistic perception. May Awareness resume its natural primacy And All-discriminating Awareness be attained. (8) Confronted by appearances of external objects There is tremulous vibration of fear in cognition. When the tendency to aversion crystallizes as hatred, Enmity breeds violent aggression leading to killing. When the fruit of hatred ripens, Ah, the agony of burning and boiling in hell! Through this, the Buddha's wish-granting prayer, When aggressive hatred erupts Neither inhibiting nor indulging it But relaxing and releasing the stress, May Awareness resume its natural primacy. May all the six types of beings Attain the Awareness of Radiant Clarity. (9) When the mind is inflated with confidence, The intellect scornfully contending with others Breeds a mind full of arrogant pride, Creating violent confrontation or war And all of its consequent suffering. When the fruit of such karma ripens A god is born, heir to decay and eventual downfall. Through this, the Buddha's wish-granting prayer, May all beings prone to inflated confidence,

At its onset, relax, releasing the stress in perception, Allowing Awareness to resume its natural primacy Attaining the Awareness of Sameness. (10) The crystallized tendencies of an alienated mind, Elevating self and diminishing others, Breed the karma of contention and violent aggression. This leads to rebirth as a murderous titan In the anti-gods' realm of constant conflict, Where downfall into hell is the final outcome. Through this, the Buddha's wish-granting prayer, When contention or violent confrontation arises, May you break the habit of conceiving of others as enemies And relax, releasing the stress in perception, Allowing pure sensory consciousness its primacy, Thus attaining the Awareness of Unhindered Action. (11) Unmindfulness, apathy and a wandering mind, Dullness, torpor and forgetfulness, Languor, laziness and stupidity, Result in rebirth as a wandering, homeless beast. Through this, the Buddha's wish-granting prayer, May the radiance of mindful clarity dawn In the gloom of sloth and depression To bring Awareness of a Silent Mind