The following is an excerpt from “Buddhahood Without Meditation: A Visionary Account Known as Refining One’s Perception” by Dudjom Lingpa:
With unswerving faith I pay homage to the sovereign lord, the primordial lord protector, the most sublime citadel of the magical display of pristine awareness.
These days, when the five kinds of degeneration are on the rise, sentient beings are without exception rough and wild, under the sway of very powerful negative karma. Clinging to the mere passing dream of this human life, they make long-range plans as though for an eternal stay and turn their backs on the pursuit of something meaningful for future lifetimes. For this reason, it seems to me that those who earnestly seek liberation and omniscience are no more numerous than stars in the daytime. Even though people may be aware of their mortality and enthusiastically practice the Buddhadharma, they devote their human existence simply to physical and verbal acts of virtue and thus pursue higher rebirths as gods or humans.
Some, without the slightest understanding of the view of emptiness, come to a decision that their own minds are empty. They are directly introduced to what is nothing more than a state of discursive thought or passive awareness and remain in this state with nothing whatever to do. This propels them towards rebirth among the gods of the desire and form realms, but does not bring them even a hair’s breadth closer to the path to omniscience.
Therefore, if a few spiritual individuals have throughout immeasurable aeons gathered the accumulations on a vast scale, tied these to noble aspirations and established some karmic connection to spiritual teachings concerning ultimate reality, I will teach them according to their good fortune and capacity to comprehend. Those who lack karmic connection to me or the good fortune to make use of the Great Perfection teachings, and instead exaggerate or deprecate these teachings, have banished their own minds to some lonely wilderness. You spiritual individuals who are not like this and whose good fortune is equal to my own, consider my advice. Through examination and analysis, through familiarization and acquaintance, recognize samsara and nirvana as supreme emptiness, and so realize the fundamental nature.
Three categories are found in the approach of the Great Perfection that is the inherent nature: the category of mind (sem-dhe), the category of the vast expanse of being (long-dhe) and the category of direct transmission instructions (man-ngag-dhe). This text pertains to what is termed the secret category of direct transmission instructions. There are three sections herein, concerning view (ta-wa), meditation (gom-pa) and conduct (kyod-pa).
You are too kind Jetsunma. Will you continue to guide us? Will you live a long life for the sake of those connected to you who have pure aspirations? Please do not even think about leaving us before you are 100 years old. (or longer)