Nagarjuna's Mahamudra Vision

Lo siguiente es un resumen de versos sobre la naturaleza de la mente, escritos por el monje Budista y filósofo Nagarjuna en el año 200 A.D.

Nagarjuna's Mahamudra Vision:
Homage to Manjusrikumarabhuta!

I bow down to the all-powerful Buddha
Whose mind is free of attachment,
Who in his compassion and wisdom
Has taught the inexpressible.

The Buddha is like the sky
And all beings have that nature.

Like an artist frightened
By the devil he paints,
The sufferer in Samsara
Is terrified by his own imagination.

Like a man caught in quicksands
Thrashing and struggling about,
So beings drown
In the mess of their own thoughts.

Mistaking fantasy for reality
Causes an experience of suffering;
Mind is poisoned by interpretation
Of consciousness of form.

So acquiring conventional virtue
Freed from the web of interpretive thought,
Insurpassable understanding is gained
As Buddha, friend to the world.

Idealizing things of no substance
As eternal, substantial and satisfying,
Shrouding them in a fog of desire
The round of existence arises.

The nature of beings is unborn
Yet commonly beings are conceived to exist;
Both beings and their ideas
Are false beliefs.

This great ocean of samsara,
Full of delusive thought,
Can be crossed in the boat of logical Universal Approach.
Who can reach the other side without it?