My uncontrived essence, the sambhogakaya,
My manifest compassion, the nirmanakaya.
These three are not to be discovered as results,
Rather, they are me, the creator himself,
Myself as whatever appears, all phenomena,
My nature, essence, compassion unmodified,
Since as reality I show the three dimensions of being.And further,
The five dimensions are my envisionment
With pure-lands, and reality is completed.1.39 DISPELLING DOUBT ABOUT THE UNCONDITIONED POTENTIALITY OF PURE PRESENCE
When we say, “The three dimensions of being and fivefold awareness are
intrinsically and spontaneously completed in the spaciousness of pure presence,”
narrow-minded people who are biased against Dzogchen teaching and like to
denigrate it say, “It is absurd to suggest that we ordinary sentient beings possess
the pure being and primal awareness of the buddhas.” This denigration is like
saying that, when it is covered by a thick cloud, the sun does not exist. We
fortunate people, engaged in Dzogchen, do not argue with such fools, nor should
we be intimidated by such talk. If the potential for buddha is not already there, if
the awareness of pure presence is not actually incipient, when in the future we
become buddha, how can it possibly manifest?
In The Supreme Tantra, Lord Maitreya says, “Unconditioned and spontaneously
manifest.” In The Secret Core, it is said,
In the causal Approach with Signs,
Sentient beings are taken as the basis of buddha;
In the resultant, tantric approach,
Mind’s nature becomes familiar as buddha.And in the Hevajra Tantra, it is said,
All sentient beings are buddha
Yet covered by adventitious filth;
Clean the filth and buddha actually appears.With knowledge of that affirmation from the definitive transmission, we must
agree that buddha-potential is not manifest without the purification of
adventitious impurities. Clearly, we need to remove the clouds that cover the face
of the sun before the rays of the sun will shine upon us.
However, the manifest buddha-potential that is the five buddha-families is
completed perfectly in the primal awareness of intrinsic presence. Akshobhya