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filling the whole of your body and, dissolving into the radiant, naked state of awareness-emptiness, fall asleep in this state without mental dullness and without being interrupted by other thoughts. If you wake up, stop the flow of thoughts and reflections—distraction, wildness, stupefaction, and so on— and maintain the radiant state of luminosity. By doing so, you will be able to recognize the luminosity of sleep and the dream state. Again, when you get up in the morning, imagine the teacher passing up your central channel and out into the sky in front of your head, remaining there joyfully, and resume your practice as described above. Furthermore, when the time comes for you to die, mingling awareness and the absolute expanse of luminosity, remain in evenness. This is the very best form of transference. If you are unable to do that, remember the three aspects of yogic perception in the intermediate state, and by that means you will be liberated. So, maintaining constant devotion and keeping the commitments perfectly purely, be diligent in making the practice of the two accumulations combined grow more and more. Exert yourself in this way, beginning with the four practices for turning the mind, until you gain true experience in each of the stages of accumulation and purification. In particular, practice the Guru Yoga with intense diligence, convinced that it is the most extraordinary and profound essential point of the path of the Diamond Vehicle, and considering it, therefore, as the vital force of the main practice. Without the need to rely on the other practices of the generation and perfection phases, you will certainly be liberated in Chamara, the Buddhafield of Lotus Light and, traversing the four knowledge-holder levels as if by magic, reach the level of the wisdom teacher, Samantabhadra. The wise, if some there be, who wish for perfect freedom From the burning torment of samsara’s pit of fire, And who rely on this sublime path, this king of forest trees, Will find relief in its dense, cool shade—enlightenment. By the power of deeds well done, may all beings filling space Become the beneficiaries of this profound teaching, And without ever turning back, joyfully and swiftly enter That beautiful city, the Land of Lotus Light! This “Chariot of the Path of Union,” a recitation text for the preliminary practice of the general sections of Lama, Completion, and Mind of the new treasure, the profound and secret Heart Essence of the Dakini, is based on a previous, slightly unclear arrangement, which I intended to rearrange in a way that would be easy to recite and practice. Recently Tulku Jigme Chöying Norbu Dön Thamche Drubpe De from Kongyul Len Ri Sang Ngak Chödzong sent me a letter with the sincere request, “You must by all means complete this as it will surely be of immense benefit to all fortunate beginners practicing this path.” Because of this, I, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, the shoot of the knowledge holders, composed this at the age of thirty-four on the tenth day of the wisdom side