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arising wisdom). This is the right view of Mahamudra,<br />

which emphasizes the Enlightened Entity of the<br />

non-born. If one continues to stabilize this right view,<br />

then without any method or medicine one will directly<br />

gain the Dharmakaya.<br />

e. Right view of natural purity. Every dharma is realized<br />

to be quite naturally purified. Fundamentally there is no<br />

bondage, no liberation, no practice, no realization;<br />

everything naturally appears, naturally manifests, <strong>and</strong><br />

naturally reveals itself. There is no choice to make at<br />

any time. From beginningless time to the infinite future,<br />

there, without any practice, is the Great Perfection. The<br />

Great Perfection contains everything—so why practice?<br />

What place lacks it? What time lacks it? Who does not<br />

already occupy the Dharmakaya?<br />

Said the yogi quite ecstatically:<br />

If you do not trouble yourself, the Great Perfection is<br />

vividly revealed. Coal is always black; it can never be<br />

white, even if you scrub it.<br />

If the view of the Great Perfection is attained, then<br />

within that view there is practice, conduct, <strong>and</strong> fruit.<br />

These are all the same, both in persons <strong>and</strong> places.<br />

There is no gradual practice here—if that is followed,<br />

then instead of getting the whole, you have only got a<br />

piece of it. One cannot practice it, as the Great<br />

Perfection is naturally perfect. If one tries, then nature is<br />

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