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The \u2018rediscovered\u2019 teachings (<em>gter ma<\/em>) of Rigdzin G\u00f6demch\u00e8n initiated the tradition known as the \u2018Treasures of the North\u2019 (<em>byang gter<\/em>), to be distinguished from that of the Treasures of the South (<em>lho gter<\/em>), tradition initiated by <a href=\"https:\/\/treasuryoflives.org\/biographies\/view\/Nyangrel-Nyima-Ozer\/5999\">Nyangr\u00e4l Nyima \u00d6zer<\/a> (myang ral nyi ma \u2018od zer, 1124-1192) and <a href=\"https:\/\/treasuryoflives.org\/biographies\/view\/Guru-Chowang\/5588\">Guru Ch\u00f6wang<\/a> (gu ru chos dbang, 1212-1270).<\/p>\n<p>The All-Excellent\u2019s Mighty Path of Aspiration (Samantabhadra, kun tu bzang po) is regularly recited in many assemblies in Tibet, particularly on auspicious days, especially the tenth, Padmasambhava&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n<p><em>These texts require transmission from a qualified teacher before they can be studied and put into practice. However, if you have not yet received the transmission, you can simply read them<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- notionvc: e2a713d6-251a-40ce-b84e-0809b22ca05f --><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All beings in the three dimensions of existence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Are, in the ground of all, equal to me, the perfect Enlighented One,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But inattentive, here they are in the ground of illusion!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They then pursue unreal actions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These are the six [mental] activities similar to the illusion of a dream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36px;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=&#8221;#FFD62F&#8221; divider_position=&#8221;center&#8221; divider_weight=&#8221;3px&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text quote_border_weight=&#8221;0px&#8221; quote_border_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; module_id=&#8221;up1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Montserrat||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; link_font=&#8221;Montserrat|700||||||#000000|&#8221; link_text_color=&#8221;#BF9E77&#8243; link_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; link_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; quote_font=&#8221;Cormorant Garamond|700|||||||&#8221; quote_text_color=&#8221;#13204d&#8221; quote_line_height=&#8221;1.3em&#8221; header_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_2_font=&#8221;Quattrocento Sans|700|||||||&#8221; header_2_text_color=&#8221;#13204d&#8221; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.6em&#8221; header_3_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_3_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; header_4_letter_spacing=&#8221;12px&#8221; header_5_font=&#8221;|300|||||||&#8221; header_5_text_color=&#8221;#bfbfbf&#8221; header_5_letter_spacing=&#8221;12px&#8221; header_6_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_6_letter_spacing=&#8221;12px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;29px|||||&#8221; quote_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; quote_font_size_phone=&#8221;&#8221; quote_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">In Tibetan: <em>Kun bzang smon lam stobs po che<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">In English: The All-Excellent\u2019s Mighty Path of Aspiration<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ho! All the appearances of becoming, of cyclic wandering<br \/>wandering and beyond torment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One base, two paths, two fruits,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Such is the marvel of primordial evidence<a href=\"#down\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a> or<br \/>ignorance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May the path of aspiration of the All-Excellent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the palace of the primordial space of phenomena<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Manifest itself in all the fullness of pure Enlightenment!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unconditioned Ground of all things,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Vast matrix space self-appeared, inexpressible,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Where there is no notion of cyclic wandering or its afterlife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When it is known, it is the fullness of pure Enlightenment,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When it is not known, it is wandering in the cycle of ordinary being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May all beings in the three dimensions of existence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Know the reality of the unspeakable Ground!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Myself, the All-Excellent,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reality of the Ground without cause or condition,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am the primordial evidence that appeared in itself within the Ground,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And do not project onto it the defect of inside and outside nor conceptual exaggerations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I do not veil it with the darkness of oblivion,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My own manifestations are therefore not veiled by error.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Remaining in the freshness of natural evidence,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Were the three worlds of existence destroyed, I would feel neither 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custom_margin_phone=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;29px|||||&#8221; quote_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; quote_font_size_phone=&#8221;&#8221; quote_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#down\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am the first Awakened One, and as such,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I proclaim this path of aspiration: by recitating it,<br \/>May all beings of the three dimensions of existence,<br \/>Immediately know the primordial evidence, that is naturally present,<br \/>And reach the summit of the great primordial knowledge!<br \/>Without interruption, my manifestations,<br \/>Inconceivable, multiply by myriads<br \/>Teaching beings according to the diversity of their needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Through the path of aspiration of my sovereign heart<a href=\"#down\"><strong>[3]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May all beings revolving in the three dimensions of existence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Free themselves from the rebirths within the six classes of beings!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First, for the deluded beings,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As the primordial evidence does not appear as the Ground,<br \/>They have no awareness of it, not even the most obscure one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This very ignorance is the cause of illusion,<br \/>And they sink into a state of blind stupor,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">their mind panicked and dazed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hence the seizure opposing self and other.<br \/>As this tendency gradually increases,<br \/>People fall into a state of cyclic wandering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The result is the development of the passions and the five poisons,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Whose activity never ceases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That is why it is the basis of delusion for ordinary beings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Since they have no awareness of their ignorance,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Through my aspiration of perfect Enlightenment,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May all naturally know the primordial evidence!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Innate ignorance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is an absence of awareness, a distraction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Defining ignorance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is grasping that distinguishes between oneself and others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The two ignorances, innate and defining,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Are the basis of illusion for all beings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Through my aspiration of perfect Enlightenment,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May all beings of cyclic wandering<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dispel the thick darkness of their unconsciousness,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cleanse their mind from dualistic grasping<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And immediately know its nature, the primordial evidence!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The dualistic mind doubts,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And from the subtle attachment that arises,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This tendency gradually takes shape<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In food, money, clothes, places to live, friends,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Five sense pleasures, loved ones, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Attached to the enjoyable, they are tormented by these desires<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Which are the illusion of the world<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the activity of a subject who grasps objects is never exhausted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When the fruit of their attachment ripens,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They are reborn as hungry ghosts tormented by lack<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And their hunger and thirst are terrible!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks to my path of aspiration as a perfectly enlightened being,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May all beings who are attached to desire,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Without outwardly rejecting the desire that torments them,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Without inwardly accepting the attachment to desire,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Release their mind into natural newness,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Regain the newness of primordial evidence,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And attain the primordial knowledge discerning everything!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">While external phenomena appear,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By the movement of the subtle feeling of fear<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The recurrent tendencies of aversion grow,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Which gives rise to the gross aspect: the seizure of an enemy whom they strike and kill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And when the fruit of their anger-aversion ripens,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They suffer to be boiled and roasted in the underworld!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/dzogchentoday.org\/wp-dzogtodaychen-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-All-Excellents-Mighty-Path-of-Aspiration-1.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;The All-Excellent\u2019s Mighty Path of Aspiration Dzogchen Today&#8221; title_text=&#8221;The All-Excellent\u2019s Mighty Path of Aspiration&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;67%&#8221; 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header_3_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; header_4_letter_spacing=&#8221;12px&#8221; header_5_font=&#8221;|300|||||||&#8221; header_5_text_color=&#8221;#bfbfbf&#8221; header_5_letter_spacing=&#8221;12px&#8221; header_6_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_6_letter_spacing=&#8221;12px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;29px|||||&#8221; quote_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; quote_font_size_phone=&#8221;&#8221; quote_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks to my path of aspiration as a perfect awakened one,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May all beings of the six realms of existence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In whom intense anger-aversion arises,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Without rejecting or accepting it, release [their mind] into natural newness,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Regain the newness of primordial evidence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And attain clear primordial knowledge!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mind swollen with arrogance,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They want to compete with others and belittle them:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For a powerful pride arises in them,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They suffer the pain of conflict between themselves and others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When the fruit of this activity ripens,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They are born as gods who suffer the fall of rebirth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks to my path of aspiration as a perfect awakener,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let those beings in whom arrogance arises<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Release their minds into natural newness,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Regain the newness of primordial evidence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And realize the reality of equality!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Their recurrent tendencies develop through dual grasping,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then, by self-glorification, contempt for others, torment,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Conflict and rivalry develop,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leading to their rebirth as murderous titans,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And finally, they fall into hellish rebirths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks to my path of aspiration as a perfect awakener,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When conflict and rivalry arise in them,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let them go in natural coolness without holding them as enemies,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Naturally take hold of the mind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And attain the primordial knowledge of unfettered waking activity!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lack of attention, indifference, distraction,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Moroseness, dullness, forgetfulness,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Loss of consciousness, laziness and stupidity,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The result is the homeless wandering of an animal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks to my path of aspiration as a perfect awakener,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let the radiance of clear attention rise<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the darkness of their stupid torpor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And may they attain primordial knowledge without concept!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All beings in the three dimensions of existence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Are, in the ground of all, equal to me, the perfect Enlighented One,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But inattentive, here they are in the ground of illusion!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They then pursue unreal actions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These are the six [mental] activities similar to the illusion of a dream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am the first Enlightened One,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I emanate into the six realms to tame them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks to the path of aspiration of the All-Excellent,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May all beings without exception<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be fully enlightened in the primordial space of phenomena!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A ho! From now on, when a powerful yogi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From the primordial evidence naturally clear and without confusion,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Recites this mighty path of aspiration<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All ordinary beings who listen to him<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Will awaken to the obvious in three lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When, during an eclipse of the sun or moon,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Of rumblings of thunder and earthquakes,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Solstices, equinoxes or the New Year,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He visualizes himself as the All-Excellent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And proclaims it for all to hear,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So all beings in the three dimensions of existence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Through this yogi&#8217;s path of aspiration &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Will gradually be freed from their suffering<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To finally attain the fullness of pure Enlightenment!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Extract from the tantra of the Great Perfection presenting &#8220;The penetrating Lucidity of the enlightened presence of the All-Excellent&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Extract from the chapter &#8220;The powerful path of aspiration &#8220;<\/em>, where it is taught that it is impossible for all beings not to awaken.*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!-- notionvc: 77b194b0-0bfa-4fa7-8040-5de3b93257a8 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=&#8221;#FFD62F&#8221; 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