By meditating on selflessness the view of self
Is uprooted, so it's been called necessary
By many seers of truth who practised intensely.
If this is the fail-safe entry way for beginners,
To say that modal apprehension should be abandoned
From the very beginning is a rumor spread by Mara.
When you acquire outstanding certainty in truthlessness
Induced by that modal apprehension,
The mere apprehension of nonexistence
Is not the final nature of things,
So meditate on the great emptiness free of elaboration,
Free of conceptual ambivalence.
When you've really understood truthlessness,
Emptiness arises as relativity,
Without apprehension of either form or emptiness.
This is worthy of confidence just like
Gold refined by fire.
In meditating the view of the supreme vehicle,
Which is right - to analyze or focus the mind?
Some say, "Don't analyze but meditate transically (trance-like?).
Analysis obscures the nature of things,
So without analyzing, sit like a bump on a log."
Some say, "Only do analysis.
Meditation without analysis
Is like going to sleep and doesn't help,
So one should always analyze."
To adhere exclusively to analysis or transic
Meditation is not appropriate.
Most transic meditations without analysis
Can become a mere calm-abiding,
But meditating thus will not produce certainty.
If certainty, the unique eye of the path of liberation,
Is abandoned, obscurations cannot be dispelled.
If you do not know the nature of dharmas,
However much you meditate, you are still
Meditating on ordinary concepts. What's the use?
It's like travelling on a path with your eyes closed.
The habits of beginningless delusion
Produce clinging to mistaken notions about the nature of things.
Without endeavoring to investigate
With a hundred methods of reasoning, it is difficult to achieve realization.
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Next, you should alternate analysis and trance.
If you analyze, certainty will be born;
When you don't analyze, and cling to the ordinary,
Analyze again and again, inducing certainty.
When certainty is born, rest in that state
Without distractiton and meditate one-pointedly.