Parting from the Four Attachments
Parting from the Four Attachments (Tib. ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་, Wyl. zhen pa bzhi bral) — a short teaching spoken by Manjushri to the Sakya patriarch Sachen Kunga Nyingpo.
目錄
The Teaching
When he was twelve years old, the great Sakyapa lama spent six months in strict retreat[1] doing the practice of Arya Manjushri, and as a result, on one occasion he had a direct vision of the deity. The glorious Manjughosha, orange in colour, was surrounded by a mass of brilliant light and seated resplendently upon a jewelled throne. He was displaying the mudra of teaching the Dharma, and was flanked on either side by two bodhisattvas. He spoke the following words:
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Reflecting on the meaning of this statement, Kunga Nyingpo realized that this mind training of ‘parting from the four attachments’ incorporates all the practices of the path of the transcendent perfections, and he felt an extraordinary confidence in all the teachings of the Dharma. Samāptamithi.
Alternative Translation
If you cling to this life, you are not a practitioner;
If you cling to the three realms, that is not renunciation;
If you cling to self-interest, you are not a bodhisattva;
If grasping arises, it is not the view.[2]
References
Alternative Tibetan
༈ ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ཆོས་པ་མིན།
ཁམས་གསུམ་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ངེས་འབྱུང་མིན།
བདག་དོན་ལ་ཞེན་ན་བྱང་སེམས་མིན།
འཛིན་པ་བྱུང་ན་ལྟ་བ་མིན།
Tibetan text
Teachings on Parting from the Four Attachments
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- Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche, Rigpa London, June (?) 1987
- His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Rigpa London, May 1995
- Pewar Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, Tuesday 15 May 2007
- Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 21 June 2008
- His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Lerab Ling, 1 & 2 August 2014
Further Reading
- Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, Parting from the Four Attachments (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2003)
- His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Parting from the Four Attachments (Shangshung Institute publications)
- Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, Lojong Shenpa Shidrel, The Mind-training of Parting from the Four Attachments, with commentary by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (Siddhartha’s Intent, 2012)
- Mind Training, The Great Collection, translated by Thupten Jinpa for the Institute of Tibetan Classics, Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-440-7, pages 517-566.
