20/JAN/2011 dur: 11'50" 640x480 stereo The Wish-Granting Prayer of Kuntuzangpo 1) HO! Phenomena and noumena, samsara and nirvana, all experience, has one ground, yet two paths and two results – displays of either gnosis or ignorance. Through this wish-granting prayer of Kuntuzangpo may all beings attain consummate perfection and buddhahood in the palace of all-inclusive spaciousness. 2) This ground of all is unconditioned, uncreated, an unutterable, self-originating, vast expanse, where neither “samsara” nor “nirvana” are known. Awareness of this reality is Buddhahood, while beings ignorant of it wander in samsara. May all sentient beings of the triple world attain awareness of the ineffable ground of being. 3) I, Kuntuzangpo, affirm that I am that, the uncaused and unconditioned ground of being, with gnosis arising spontaneously within it; free of defiling notions of inside and outside, free of positive or negative discrimination, free of dark traces of unmindfulness, my self-manifest display is faultless. In pristine gnosis, abiding in stillness, though the triple world burns there is no fear, no attachment to the five sensory pleasures, and with spontaneous non-conceptual cognition there is no material form and no five poisons. As this uncrystallizing radiant aspect of gnosis the one essence contains the five aspects of awareness; in the evolution of this fivefold awareness the five modes of the original buddha emerge; in them through fully expanded awareness the forty-two buddhas arise; and through the potency of the fivefold pristine awareness the sixty blood-drinking herukas appear: thus the gnostic ground is never deluded. Through the utterance of this, my wish-granting prayer, may all sentient beings of the triple world of samsara recognize their intrinsic gnosis so that pristine awareness may optimize. (4) My apparitional emanation unhindered, incalculable myriads of forms in manifold illusion transfigure beings, whosoever and whatsoever they may be. Through this, my compassionate wish-granting prayer, may all creatures of samsara’s triple world escape the destinies of the six mythic modes of being. (5) In the first place, for deluded sentient beings since gnosis does not arise in the ground inattentiveness and bewilderment arises; in the state of ignorance and delusion, with sudden fainting away, feelings of dread and vacillation arise; “I” is alienated from a hostile “other,” and the mind progressively conditioned thereby samsara is established as a way of life. The five emotions increasing, defilement resulting, the karma of the five poisons is an interminable stream. Since the basis of sentient beings’ delusion is unmindfulness and the absence of gnosis, through this, my wish-granting prayer may all sentient beings of the triple world recognize their own intrinsic gnosis. (6) “Innate ignorance” (accompanying each moment of perception) implies unmindful, distracted cognition, and “conceptual ignorance” (selecting, structuring and labelling) implies dualistic cognition. This twofold ignorance, innate and conceptual, forms the basis of all beings’ delusion. Through this, the buddha’s wish-granting prayer, may all of samsara’s sentient beings, the gloom of their befogged, distracted, minds dissolving, dualistic perception unified in pellucid clarity, recognize the original face of gnosis. (7) The dualizing intellect is fearful and insecure, breeding subtle cravings that crystallize as overt, compulsive desires, desire for food, wealth and clothing, home and friends, for fivefold sensual pleasure and loving companions, and the yearning of sexual attraction. Such are the tormenting obsessions of worldly delusion, the karma of ego-craving that is never exhausted. When the fruit of this craving ripens, tormented by frustrated desire, reborn as a hungry ghost, ah! the misery of hunger and thirst. Through this, the buddha’s wish-granting prayer, may all beings possessed by compulsive desire neither repressing nor rejecting the pangs of frustration nor accepting nor indulging obsessive lusts, let cognition relax into its natural state, and gnosis resuming its natural primacy may everyone attain all-discriminating awareness. (8) Confronted by the appearance of external objects a tremulous vibration of fear arises that crystallizes as a tendency to aversion wherein enmity breeds aggression and killing. When the fruit of hatred ripens, ah! the agony of burning and boiling in hell. Through this, the buddha’s wish-granting prayer, when aggressive hatred erupts in any of the beings of the six realms, without inhibition or indulgence may they relax and release the stress in the natural state, and gnosis resuming its natural primacy may they all attain the awareness of radiant clarity. (9) When the mind is swollen with confidence, the intellect scornfully contending with others breeds a mind full of arrogant pride, creating violent