- The root meaning: the path of generation
- and completion’s union.
- This has what has to be known and what
- has to be meditated.
In the fifth song of The Quintessence of the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen: The Practical Instructions of the Noble Great Compassionate One, Chenrezik, Karma Chakme Rinpoche describes a path that consists of the unification or integration of the generation stage (the visualization of a deity or deities) and the completion stage (which in this case refers to recognition of the mind’s nature). This path is presented as two things that can be practiced simultaneously and do not necessarily have to be practiced separately. The song has two parts: what is to be understood and what is to be meditated on. The meaning is profound and extensive. What is to be understood is the actual view behind all deity meditation, and what is to be practiced is the main meditation of this path.
The View of Vajrayana
- The essence of the mind of all beings
- Is primordially the essence of buddhahood.
- Its empty essence is the birthless dharmakaya.
- Its clear distinct appearances are the sambhogakaya.
- Its unceasing compassion is the variegated nirmanakaya.
- The inseparable union of those three is the svabhavikakaya.
- Its eternal changelessness is the mahasukhakaya.
