(Rigpa-Ālokasya Sūtram)

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Invocation

Homage to the Unborn, the Unmade, the Unfathomable,
The Primordially Pure Awareness—beyond mind and measure.
Homage to the Teachers of the Great Perfection,
Who reveal what cannot be taught
By the gesture of silence and the light of knowing.

May the field of merit be vast,
The veil of ignorance be lifted,
And the unborn truth be seen as self-arising.

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The Sutra

1.
Reality is the unborn,
The unmade,
The unshaped and unbound.
Primordially pure,
Spontaneously luminous,
It abides as no-thing,
Yet gives rise to all appearances.

2.
Being empty, it is full.
Being without essence,
It overflows in display.
Subject and object,
Self and other,
Emerge as dream-threads
Woven into the mirror of illusion.

3.
From this illusion of two,
The world appears—
A shimmer of water
In a desert of thought,
Beautiful and void.

4.
This arising and ceasing,
This play of light and shadow,
Is not apart from
The streaming of mind.
Mind and display
Are co-emergent,
Twin waves on the sea of unknowing.

5.
Perception dances
With its own reflection.
From this dance,
Samsāra unfolds—
The jeweled net of illusion
Caught on the hook of grasping.

6.
The self that says “I see”
Is a phantom.
The one who clings
Is a name on the wind.
That which claims experience
Is the final illusion.

7.
Liberation is simple:
Awareness sees through itself.
The mirror turns
And recognizes its own clarity.
All forms are released
Into their original nature—
Transparent, insubstantial, free.

8.
Thus duality,
Having no ground,
Dissolves into the groundless.
The one without second
Is revealed as never hidden.

9.
This is the ungraspable truth,
Beyond word, beyond path:
A stillness that sings,
A knowing that does not divide.
It is bliss
Unconditioned.
It is clarity
Without source.
It is the timeless presence
Of what you are.

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Dedication

By this luminous remembrance,
May all beings awaken
To the unborn nature of their own minds.
May the veil of duality dissolve
Into the expanse of original purity.
May those caught in the net of appearances
Be freed by the single taste of awareness.

This, then, is offered
To all buddhas and bodhisattvas of the three times,
To the masters of the lineage of direct introduction,
And to the unborn awareness that looks through these words
Even now.

Sarva mangalam.
May all be auspicious.