From “Flight of the Garuda” By Shabkar Lama
Translated by Keith Dowman

 The nature of mind in its purity
is like a stainless crystal:
it’s essence is emptiness, it’s nature is clarity,
and it’s responsiveness is a continuum.

 In no way whatever is the nature of mind
affected by samsara’s negativity.
From the first it (the pure mind) is Buddha.
Trust in this!

 The primal awareness of Knowledge
is mirror-like awareness because of the
manifest clarity of its unobstructed essence.
It is awareness of sameness because it is all-pervasive.

 It is discriminating awareness because the entire
gamut of diverse appearances is manifest from its creativity.
It is the awareness that accomplishes all actions
because it fulfills all our ambition.

 It is awareness of the reality-continuum,
the dharmadhatu, because the single essence
of all these aspects of awareness is primal purity.
Not so much as an atom exists apart from these,
which are the creativity of intrinsic knowledge.

 When a pointed finger introduces you directly
essence, nature and responsiveness -and the Five Buddhas
and the five aspects of awareness, all together,
then what is experienced is brilliant, awakened Knowledge
unaffected by circumstance and uninfluenced by clinging thought;
it is cognition of the here and now, unstructured and unaffected.

 All the Buddhas of the three aspects of time
arise from this Knowledge.
Constantly identify yourselves with it,
beloved sons and daughters, because this is the
spirituality of all the Buddhas of the three aspects of time.

 Knowledge is the unstructured,
natural radiance of your own mind,
so how can you say that you cannot see the Buddha?