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The Three Statements of Garab Dorje - Hitting the Essence in Three

Words (Tib. ཚག་ག མ་གནད་བ ེགས་ tsik sum né dek, Wyl. tshig gsum gnad
brdegs)

Tib. ངོ་རང་ཐོག་ ་ ད། ། ngo rang tok tu tré, Wyl. ngo rang thog tu sprad

Introducing directly the face of rigpa in itself

Tib. ཐག་གཅིག་ཐོག་ ་བཅད། ། tak chik tok tu ché, Wyl. thag gcig thog tu
bcad

Decide upon one thing and one thing only

Tib. གདེང་ ོལ་ཐོག་ ་བཅའ། ། deng drol tok tu cha, Wyl. gdeng grol thog
tu bca’

Confidence directly in the liberation of rising thoughts

The Three Immovables (Tib. མི་གཡོ་བ་ག མ་ ན་ miyowa sumden, Wyl. mi

g.yo ba gsum ldan)

Tib. ས་མི་གཡོ་བ་རི་ ལ་ ་ ་ lü miyowa ri gyal tabu , Wyl. lus mi g.yo ba

ri rgyal lta bu

unmoving body, like the king of mountains

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Tib. དབང་པོ་མི་གཡོ་བ་མཚ་ལ་གཟའ་ ར་ཤར་བ་ ་ ་ wangpo miyowa tso la

zakar sharwa tabu , Wyl. dbang po mi g.yo ba mtsho la gza’ skar shar ba
lta bu

unmoving senses like the planets or stars reflected in a lake

Tib. སེམས་ཉིད་མི་གཡོ་བ་ནམ་ཁའ་ ིན་དང་ ལ་བ་ ་ ་ semnyi miyowa

namkha trin dang dralwa tabu, Wyl. sems nyid mi g.yo ba nam mkha’
sprin dang bral ba lta bu

unmoving nature of mind, like a cloudless sky

The Four Visions (Tib. ང་བ་བཞི་ nangwa shyi, Wyl. snang ba bzhi)

Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་མངོན་ མ་, chönyi ngön sum; Wyl. cho nyid mngon sum

experiencing the nature of reality directly

Tib. ཉམས་གོང་འཕེལ་, nyam gong pel, Wyl. nyams gong ‘phel

increasing experience

Tib. རིག་པ་ཚད་ཕེབས་, rigpa tsé pep, Wyl. rig pa tshad phebs

awareness reaching full maturity, intrinsic awareness reaching full measure

(LCN)

Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་ཟད་ས་ chönyi zésa, Wyl. chos nyid zad sa

dissolution of ordinary experience into the nature of reality

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The Four Ways of Leaving Things in their Natural Simplicity (Tib. ཅོག་བཞག་
བཞི་ chok shyak shyi, Wyl. cog bzhag bzhi)

Tib. ་བ་རི་བོ་ཅོག་བཞག tawa riwo chok shyak, Wyl. lta ba ri bo cog bzhag

view, like a mountain, leave it as-it-is

Tib. ོམ་པ་ ་མཚ་ཅོག་བཞག gompa gyatso chok shyak, Wyl. sgom pa

rgya mtsho cog bzhag

meditation, like an ocean: leave it as-it-is

Tib. ོད་པ་ ང་བ་ཅོག་བཞག chöpa nangwa chok shyak, Wyl. spyod pa

snang ba cog bzhag

action, appearances: leave them as they are

Tib. འ ས་ ་མ་བཅོས་པ་ཅོག་བཞག drebu machöpa chok shyak, Wyl. ‘bras

bu ma bcos pa cog bzhag

fruition, unaltered: leave it as-it-is

General

Tib. ལ་ ་དབབ་པ་ nal du babpa, Wyl. rnal du dbab pa

resting in tranquility (SK); remaining/reposing in naturalness (EPK); allowing

relaxation in a genuine state (LCN)

Tib. མ་བཅོས་པ་ machöpa, Wyl. ma bcos pa

uncontrived, unaltered
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Tib. ལ་ tsal, Wyl. rtsal

energy, potential, strength, radiance

Tib. རིག་པ་ rigpa, Wyl. rig pa

pure awareness

Tib. ལ་བ ་བ་ ladawa, Wyl. la bzla ba

resolve (EPK); to reach a final decision; come to a decisive experience (LCN);

resolving through transcending; Literally “traversing the mountain pass”

Tib. ཟང་ཐལ་ zangtal, Wyl. zang thal

all-penetrating, wide open state (EPK), unobstructed, unimpeded

Tib. ཞན་འ ེད་ shyenjé, Wyl. shan ‘byed

clarification, clear distinction

Tib. སོར་ག ག་པ་ sor shyukpa, Wyl. sor gzhug pa

restoration (SK); sustaining freshness, reviving alertness (EPK); using

restorative techniques (LCN)

Experiential Terms
(Tib. ོང་ཚག nyong tsik, Wyl. myong tshig)

Tib. ེན་ནེ་བ་ , jen newa, Wyl. rjen ne ba

naked and pristine

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Tib. ཐོམ་མེ་བ་, tomméwa Wyl. thom me ba

oblivious, hazy, blank, vague (EPK)

Tib. ངས་སང་ངེ་, dang sang ngé,Wyl. dvangs sang nge

lucid and clear

Tib. བདེ་ ང་ངེ་ , dé lhang ngé, Wyl. bde lhang nge

a vivid sense of bliss and well-being (PG)

Tib. ཟང་ཐལ་ལེ་, zangtal lé, Wyl. zang thal le

totally open, unimpeded, all-penetrating, transparently clear

Tib. ཡང་ ོལ་ལེ་, yang trol lé, Wyl. yang khrol le

light and free from within (PG)

Tib. ཡེར་རེ་བ་, yer rewa, Wyl. yer re ba

authentic, unadulterated (Reynolds); lucidness (EPK) See Tony Duff for

explanation as ‘standing out’ vivid

Tib. ལམ་མེ་བ་, lam mewa, Wyl. lam me ba

vivid, clear, shining

Tib. སང་ངེ་བ་, sang ngéwa, Wyl. sang nge ba

brilliance, brilliant (LCN); immaculately pure (Reynolds)

Tib. སལ་ལེ་བ་, sal lewa, Wyl. sal le ba

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vivid(ness) (LCN)

Tib. ཧ་ཆད་དེ་ , ha ché dé, Wyl. ha chad de

rapturous (PG)

Tib. ཧད་དེ་བ་, hedewa, Wyl. had de ba

wonderstruck (RT), wonderment,

Tib. ག
ི ་གེ་བ་, hrik gewa, Wyl. hrig ge ba

riveting, stark (LCN); present, aware (Reynolds), lucid wakefulness, vivid

alertness (EPK)

Tib. ང་ངེ་བ་ , lhang ngewa, Wyl. lhang nge ba

vivid, clear, bright, awake (EPK); vibrant (PG)

Tib. ན་ནེ་བ་, lhen newa, Wyl. lhan ne ba

stable, abiding (LCN); serene, tranquil (EPK)

References

EPK: Erik Pema Kunsang

LCN: Lama Chökyi Nyima
PG: Patrick Gaffney
Reynolds: John Myrdhin Reynolds
RT: Rigpa Translations
SK: Sangye Khandro

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