Tutor, to cultivate your mind’s nature,
Do not be content with your understanding of emptiness.
Diligently cultivate, as much as you can,
Unaltered even rest in the fresh nature of whatever arises.
I have no instructions beyond that to give.

Written by Barway Dorje at the wish of Tragyal.

When your mind is caught by recollection, it is seen.
Don’t introduce the intellect’s alterations. Leave it as it is.
If the doubt “Is this it or not?” arises, rest in that.
If the resolution “It is” arises, rest in it.
If the dissatisfied thought “It isn’t” arises, let it go.
Whatever happens, be content with naked ordinariness.
Meditate on devotion for your guru and compassion for beings.

Dechen Barway Dorje wrote this to remind Karma Jangchup.

OM AH HUM!
Personification of the three times’ buddhas,
Vidyadhara, you have appeared for the good of beings
From the vast expanse of Padmakara’s compassion.
I pray to Dechen Barway Dorje.
Transfer your blessing and wisdom to my continuum.
Bless me so that I realize the unborn essence.

If our various thoughts are not embraced by awareness,
We waste our lives by wandering in bewilderment.
Even though there are frequent moments of distraction and
forgetfulness,
As soon as awareness returns, cultivate it.
Don’t intellectualize, alter, or fabricate.
By cultivating naturalness a great thing will be achieved.

In response to the request of a few male and female disciples,
This was immediately written by Barway Dorje. Virtue!

All-Seeing Manjushri Vajradhara,
Protector of all beings,
Great Splendor Tobden Düdül Lingpa,
Barway Dorje: I pray to you.
Liberate my continuum through the force of your blessing.
May my wishes be fulfilled in accord with dharma.

At the request of Kawo Tsodzay, this was written by Dechen Barway Dorje. Virtue!

Now, later, in between, and in all situations;
While walking, standing, lying, and sitting—in all activities—
Imagine above your head whomever you want to,
Such as your root guru, the protector Amitabha,
Avalokita, or Guru Padma.

Pray with devotion and yearning without a moment’s lapse.
Offer without reservation your body, possessions, wealth,
Retinue, spouse, children, and the four continents.
Repeatedly gather the accumulations.

Amrita streams from your guru’s body,
Purifying wrongs and veils.
Light rays from his five places dissolve into you.
Think that this purifies the veils of the three gates and their unity.

Your guru melts into light and dissolves into you.
In the indivisibility of your mind and your guru
Rest without a care but with self-recognition.
Don’t adopt stillness and reject movement,
Seeing one as good and the other as bad.
Apply yourself repeatedly to mere self-recognition.
Such meditation is the ultimate practice. Keep it in mind!

As requested by Arme Urgyen,
This was quickly written by Barway Dorje.

NAMO GURU!
I bow to the supreme guru Vajrasattva.
I will provide here a little instruction for disciples
On the purification of karma.

Imagine your guru, Vajrasattva, above your head
In the form of the second Buddha, Padmakara.
In nature he is Padmakara indivisible from your root guru.
He is white and red with one smiling face.
His two hands hold a vajra and a kapala of amrita.
In sambhogakaya attire, he is embraced by white Tsogyal.
Seated in vajra and lotus posture, they blaze with light rays.
They are sitting on a lion throne, lotus, sun, and moon.
They clearly embody all buddhas of the three times.
Offer a billion mandalas, your body, and your possessions.
Confess all wrongdoing of body, speech, and mind of the three times.
In their heart on a moon is HUM surrounded by the hundred syllables.
Streaming amrita purifies wrongs and obscurations.

Recite the six syllables, the hundred syllables,
And the all-sufficient VAJRA GURU.
Pray to Guru Rinpoche and the three roots.

Your mind, awareness of this moment,
Is beyond characterization as this or that.
Without being distracted from the continuity
Of mere presence, cultivate it without fixation.
Whatever happens—birth, death, joy, or misery—
Remain undistracted yet relaxed.

Always entrust your heart to your root guru through devotion.
Turn your mind to holy dharma.
Give up as many mundane actions as you can.
If you do all this, you will accomplish much.

It would be excellent for you now to engage in purification and accumulation
according to tradition, with inviolate samaya toward both
your guru and your monastery, entrusting your whole life to the cultivation
of virtue in a good retreat in isolation or in a hermitage. Please
keep the tradition of doing so in mind. Written by Barway Dorje. May
it bring virtue!