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The way the root revolves. Second, there are five instructions on the path: the view that does not abide by extremes, the meditation of the nature of awareness, the conduct of self-liberation of delusion, the grasping of the unchanging essential point, and the instruction of repetition. First, there are four views: how things are is the nature of reality, how things appear is the way they manifest, all appearances are the nature of mind, and how self-liberation is realized. Second, there are four meditations: the natural way of settling the mind, how experiences of non-thought and self-clarity arise, recognizing appearances as meditation by distinguishing appearances and mind, and repeating the practice of clear and empty indivisibility. Third, there are four conducts: recognizing subtle and coarse appearances as experiences, showing thoughts as the mind's own nature, balancing discouragement and pride, and cultivating non-attachment as self-liberation without clinging. Fourth, there are four ways to take the path as essential: holding the mind in whatever arises, clarifying its essence with luminosity, sealing emptiness with emptiness, and settling the essential point in the indivisibility of emptiness and cessation. Fifth, there are four repetitions: introducing the nature of reality that is unestablished and inconceivable, repeating the practice of pure spontaneity as the basis, repeating the view, meditation, conduct, path, and result, and repeating all that is knowable as all that is knowable. Third, there are four fruits: showing the dependent body with two certainties, showing the wisdom that depends on suchness, the way of benefiting beings with and without dependence, and the way of abiding in the intention of one and many. There are two concluding meanings: dedicating the merit of this virtue, and the way the name 'Heap of Jewels' is completed. The outer explanation of the condensed meaning of 'Heap of Jewels' is complete. The inner explanation of the history of the Secret Mantra Path is present. Namo Ratna Guru. The author of this Secret Mantra Path is the great scholar Padmasambhava, as stated by Orgyen Padmasambhava. Therefore, he possesses immeasurable qualities of greatness and has reached the limit of composing instructions. First, in western Orgyen, his body arose from a lotus flower, so there was no obscuration of the womb. Because he controlled birth and death, his body has no passing away.
Chinese
邬金莲花生说，金刚乘一生解脱之道，为后世具缘瑜伽士，撰写修行次第珍宝明灯。 领会住法和迷乱之自性，即是无二任运本来佛。其精髓是无明烦恼及轮回痛苦。 以五圆满为修行之基础，黑岩尸林洞穴等，兼顾其优缺点。 具备信心恭敬誓言智慧和定解。 吉祥的日期星宿和吉日，上弦月的初一到十五。 积攒食物药物供品和修行的物品。 不散乱，一心一意，最终完成苦行。 瑜伽士守护的轮之次第是，为有情众生修持获得无上菩提。 以本尊名号金刚轮和兵器火焰守护。 身语意三，观修身语意字。 观世音文殊本尊，显现任何本尊。 观修金刚地基帐篷和箭矢火焰。 安住于无所缘的能所之自性中。 通过五要点进入道，共同殊胜无上三皈依。 念诵供养和补阙，白色红色黑色三种百字明。 修暇满，业果，无常和过患。 献上修行和供养的曼扎。 通过各种道用食子积累二资粮。 布施常施，三，七，十一等食子。 献上七支供，外内密供。 这些是密宗道的加行。 将三学作为道之基础，认识到不相符的，生起的念头，平等安住和自性。 尸罗（藏文：ཤཱི་ལ་，梵文天城体：śīla，梵文罗马拟音：śīla，汉语字面意思：戒），三摩地（藏文：ས་མཱ་ཏི་，梵文天城体：samādhi，梵文罗马拟音：samādhi，汉语字面意思：等持），般若（藏文：པྲཛྙཱ་，梵文天城体：prajñā，梵文罗马拟音：prajñā，汉语字面意思：慧）学处。 以方便摄持损害，邪行和差别。 见到真谛，习惯成自然，不超越。 依对治力，宣说了八万四千法门。 通过三种发心进入道， 知晓悦意父母，修持安乐。 观想有情父母远离痛苦。 摄取和成办获得佛果之发心。 三种发心，三类，三学，三种体验相应。 殊胜密宗道的自性是，宝瓶秘密智慧大乐四灌顶。 外内情器，观想为坛城本尊。 生灭无二，自生超越边。 以三要诀调伏，无念自明现。 牙齿，大众，发际，秘密，唯独行持真实。 平等之后，受用护持。
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Thus spoke Orgyen Padmasambhava: The Vajrayana path to liberation in one lifetime, For the sake of fortunate yogis of future generations, I write this precious lamp of the stages of practice. To grasp the nature of abiding and delusion as they are, Is the non-dual, spontaneously accomplished, primordially enlightened Buddha. Its essence is ignorance, afflictions, and the suffering of samsara. To establish the basis for accomplishment with the five perfections, Consider the advantages and disadvantages of black cliffs, charnel grounds, caves, and so forth. Possess faith, reverence, empowerment, samaya, wisdom, and conviction. Engage in auspicious dates, constellations, and good days, from the first to the fifteenth of the waxing moon. Accumulate food, medicine, offerings, and the substances for practice. Without distraction, with one-pointedness, bring asceticism to its ultimate conclusion. The stages of the protective wheel for yogis are: Meditate on attaining supreme enlightenment for all sentient beings. Protect with the deity's name, vajra wheel, weapons, and fire. Meditate on the body, speech, and mind, the syllables of body, speech, and mind. Visualize Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, whichever is the chosen deity. Meditate on the vajra ground, tent, arrows, and fire. Abide in the nature of non-objectification of the doer and the done. Through the five key points, enter the path: Take refuge in the common, extraordinary, and supreme Three Jewels. Recite, offer, and fulfill the white, red, and black hundred-syllable mantras. Meditate on the leisure and fortune, karma and its effects, impermanence, and faults. Offer the mandala of accomplishment and offering in two ways. Accumulate the two accumulations with various path-taking tormas. Give away the constant torma, three, seven, eleven, and so forth. Offer the seven pure offerings, outer, inner, and secret offerings. These are the preliminaries of the secret mantra path. To establish the three trainings as the foundation of the path: Recognize the incompatible, arising thoughts, equal abiding, and one's own nature. Śīla (藏文：ཤཱི་ལ་，梵文天城体：śīla，梵文罗马拟音：śīla，汉语字面意思：Discipline), samādhi (藏文：ས་མཱ་ཏི་，梵文天城体：samādhi，梵文罗马拟音：samādhi，汉语字面意思：Concentration), prajñā (藏文：པྲཛྙཱ་，梵文天城体：prajñā，梵文罗马拟音：prajñā，汉语字面意思：Wisdom) training. Subdue harm, wrong conduct, and distinctions with skillful means. See the meaning of truth, become familiar with it, and do not transgress it. Due to the power of antidotes, eighty-four thousand teachings were spoken. Through the three minds, enter the path: Recognize pleasing parents and meditate on happiness. Contemplate sentient parents being free from suffering. Take up and accomplish the aspiration to attain Buddhahood. The three minds, three categories, three trainings, and three experiences coincide. The extraordinary nature of the secret mantra path is: The four empowerments of vase, secret, wisdom, and great bliss are conferred. Visualize the outer and inner worlds as the mandala deities. The non-duality of arising and ceasing, self-arisen, beyond extremes. By subduing the three key points, non-conceptual self-luminosity arises. Teeth, community, hair, secret, practice only what is true. After equality, enjoy and protect.
Chinese
舍弃五种低劣誓言。这些是密咒道的本质。 通过五种瑜伽来修持： 在无念法身中安睡，净化死亡的念头； 在无灭报身中起身，净化出生的念头； 以四灌顶加持甘露，享受饮食； 以各种方法把握，并将其置于道上； 观修暖相、热相、生起次第、圆满次第和中阴。 指示消除此道四种障碍的过患： 调整昏沉、掉举和衰退三种状态，并将其置于道上； 识别并纠正疾病的根源、条件和结果； 放下无修饰的状态，消除间断、寒冷和僵硬； 避免有害的食物，切断联系，改变不必要的依赖； 白色、红色、黑色吽字（藏文：ཧཱུྃ，梵文天城体：हुं，梵文罗马拟音：hūṃ，汉语字面意思：吽）的光芒照耀上下，驱除邪魔； 没有自他之分，切断反复出现的联系； 消除誓言破损、损友、住所和食物的四种污染。 将此道的利益转化为关键： 以智慧舍弃过患的根源——我执； 努力修持功德的根本——修持； 如果自己的道没有利益，就由他人来转化； 抓住烦恼的关键，并将其置于道上； 将分别念置于道上，并转化为利益； 这些是道的条件和支分。 此道最终完成，显现的果实是： 五身、五语、五意、功德和事业； 有依和无依，自性成就事业； 安住于一与异、无二之中； 观察见解是否成立、是否真实。 此生获得成佛的近道， 是显现自相的决定之法， 是具足方便和智慧的双运道， 是战胜失败并转化为胜利的无上大乘。 以此善行，无垢清净， 愿一切有情进入成熟解脱之道， 愿自性觉悟，消除障碍，灭尽罪业， 迅速获得圆满正等觉果位！ 名为《密咒道次第宝灯论》。邬金大导师莲花生所著圆满。依持明主的手写本校对。内释密咒道次第科判完毕。 顶礼吉祥普贤王如来！对于内释密咒道的次第，有三个部分：开头、正文和结尾。第一部分有两个：以二胜二具足顶礼，以及自誓瑜伽士承诺写作。正文
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Abandon the five inferior vows. These are the essence of the Secret Mantra path. Through the five yogas, practice: Sleeping in the non-conceptual Dharmakaya, purify the thought of death; Rising in the unobstructed Sambhogakaya, purify the thought of birth; Blessing the nectar with the four empowerments, enjoy food and drink; Grasping with various methods, and placing it on the path; Observe the warm signs, heat signs, generation stage, completion stage, and bardo. Indicating the elimination of the faults of the four obstacles of this path: Adjusting the three states of dullness, agitation, and decline, and placing them on the path; Identifying and correcting the root, conditions, and results of illness; Letting go of the unelaborated state, eliminating interruptions, coldness, and stiffness; Avoiding harmful foods, cutting off connections, and changing unnecessary dependencies; The light of white, red, and black Hūṃ (Tibetan: ཧཱུྃ, Sanskrit Devanagari: हुं, Sanskrit Romanization: hūṃ, Literal Chinese meaning: Hūṃ) shines above and below, dispelling evil spirits; Without self or other, cut off recurring connections; Eliminate the four pollutions of broken vows, bad friends, dwelling places, and food. Turning the benefits of this path into key points: Abandoning the root of faults—self-grasping—with wisdom; Striving to practice the root of merit—practice; If one's own path has no benefit, let others transform it; Grasping the key point of afflictions and placing them on the path; Placing conceptual thoughts on the path and transforming them into benefits; These are the conditions and limbs of the path. The ultimate completion of this path, the manifested fruit, is: The five bodies, five speeches, five minds, qualities, and activities; With support and without support, self-nature accomplishing activities; Dwelling in one and different, non-dually; Observing whether the view is established and whether it is true. The near path to attaining Buddhahood in this life, Is the definitive Dharma that reveals self-nature, Is the dual path of skillful means and wisdom, Is the unsurpassed Great Vehicle that defeats failure and transforms it into victory. By this merit, immaculate and pure, May all sentient beings enter the path of maturation and liberation, May self-nature awaken, eliminate obscurations, and exhaust faults, May they quickly attain the state of perfect and complete Buddhahood! Named "The Lamp Illuminating the Stages of the Secret Mantra Path." Completed by the great teacher of Oddiyana, Padmasambhava. Collated according to the handwritten copy of the Vidyadhara King. The outline of the inner explanation of the Secret Mantra path is complete. Homage to glorious Samantabhadra! Regarding the stages of the inner explanation of the Secret Mantra path, there are three parts: the beginning, the main body, and the conclusion. The first part has two: prostration with two excellences and two possessions, and the self-vow of the yogi to write. The main body