Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Quote of the Week March 4, 2011
Mahamudra and Time
Within the essential self-nature of mahamudra, time does not exist. In relation to the concepts of a practitioner, however, there is time; a practitioner needs the thought of the future. From the point of view of mahamudra resting within itself, time is necessarily transcended. In relation to the concepts a practitioner has, he
or she makes plans and preparations for the future. For example, if you want to do retreat this year, you had to make preparations last year. Until concepts are exhausted, there is time and you make preparations; however, you should not grasp onto time as truly existent, and you should know that within the essential nature of mahamudra, time does not exist. In verse:
Within mahamudra, true nature of the mind, there is no delusion of time As the three times are dependent on concepts. So until they're exhausted, every one, The delusion of time is unending.
-From Mahamudra Shamatha and Vipashyana, Karmê Chöling, Summer, 1991, p.26. Translated by Michele Martin.
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