Instructions for practicing Short Dorjé Chang Mahāmudrā Invocation composed by all-knowing man from Bängar

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Here are “Instructions for practicing Short Dorjé Chang Mahāmudrā Invocation composed by the man from Bängar, all-knowing Jampäl Zangpo.”

As for the way of invoking, it is said that a man from Tsang asked geshe Gönpawa: “please hold me with compassion;” hence he asked [in reply]: “I hold you with compassion and you hold me with compassion, please.” And so, analyzing the meaning of this, it is: “I hold you with compassion and you should act as I do.” Similarly, it is the invocation to the root and lineage lamas and also the invocation for granting me [access to] the level of root and lineage lamas. In this way invocation must be carried out by way of my body, speech and mind to [be able] to replicate the complete liberation life-stories of their three diamonds with my three gates. Moreover, concerning complete liberation life-stories, first they generated the attitude of mind [that aims towards] the benefit of all sentient beings. Next, they collected the two accumulations for the benefit of all sentient beings. Having abandoned the obscurations, finally through merely seeing, hearing, remembering and touching, they offered refuge to those who were lacking refuge. In order to protect those without protection, they attained the Buddha state of the nature [bdag nyid] of the five effortless and inexhaustible adornment wheels. Thus are their deeds, conduct and complete liberation life-stories. That is why one thinks: “I should follow them” and one should settle in equipoise in visualization that is not interrupted by other thoughts.

How by way of this kind of invocation is inspiration obtained? So one obtains inspiration by way of revulsion at both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa being treated as an object. In saṃsāra there is the desire realm, form realm and formless realm: and no matter where we are born, the cause of rebirth is the affliction of attachment connected with a substantialistic view of any of these three realms and it is a rebirth due to unwholesome actions correlating with it.