Clear Elucidation of True Nature

CLEAR ELUCIDATION OF TRUE NATURE

An Esoteric Instruction on the Sublime Approach of Ati

by Za Patrul Rinpoche

Aro Yeshe Jungne’s inspirational teachings on the nature of mind, which derive from the mind class of the Great Perfection and are contained in the anthology of the Nyingma Kama, flourished during the tenth to twelfth centuries. A native of Langtang Dolma on the banks of the Yangtze in Kham, Aro possessed the instructions of seven successive masters of both Indian and Chinese lineages. His teachings were revived during the nineteenth century when they were recompiled by Patrul Rinpoche. Aro offers access to the Dzogchen perspectives on the nature of mind to persons of nine different capacities, ranging from those in whom this realization is spontaneously and effortlessly present to those who acquire it through the applications of calm abiding and superior insight.

Aro Yeshe Jungne flourished in Tibet in the tenth century. He was a great master and teacher, and the fountainhead of important Dzogchen Mind Section oral transmission lineages within the Nyingma school that thrived for over three centuries. Many people who practiced the Aro teachings became enlightened, and some even attained the transcendental wisdom rainbow body.

Patrul Rinpoche is thought by some to be a reincarnation of Aro Yeshe Jungne

Aro Yeshe Jungne says look directly into your mind, identify its nature, and abide there. The nature “of the mind is open, clear, bright, peaceful, compassionate, complete, and free from thought and emotion. Know this and be this—this is the heart of his message. Aro gives many instructions so this can be accomplished. He arranges these into nine categories, corresponding to the different degrees of readiness and seasoning among human beings to abide in mind-nature. Each one of the teachings in all of the nine categories is a perfect path. Each one of these paths is supported and glorified by cultivating boundless love and compassion, an understanding of impermanence, and devotion, particularly to the root teacher.

The Aro teachings divide Dzogchen practitioners into three categories: 

(1) high capability practitioners, 

(2) medium capability practitioners, and 

(3) lesser capability practitioners.

High capability practitioners realize the Dzogchen teachings immediately. Medium capability practitioners do so gradually. Lesser capability practitioners require more time and effort. Even within the three categories there can be differing levels of capacity. For this reason the Aro teachings subdivide each one of these categories into three, so that there are nine in all:

1.  high capability practitioners of the highest caliber

2.  high capability practitioners of medium caliber

3.  high capability practitioners of lesser caliber

4.  medium capability practitioners of the highest caliber

5.  medium capability practitioners of medium caliber

6.  medium capability practitioners of lesser caliber

7.  lesser capability practitioners of the highest caliber

8.  lesser capability practitioners of medium caliber

9.  lesser capability practitioners of lesser caliber

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