Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
This short instructional text, attributed to the master Medhini, provides a concise guide to the realization of the coemergent union of emptiness. The work functions as a meditative manual, directing the practitioner to engage in a specific visualization process centered on the heart. By focusing on a non-dual bindu the size of a mustard seed and visualizing its expansion, the reader is committed to a practice of internal alchemy and mental concentration intended to collapse the duality between the practitioner and the nature of reality. The text is structured as a direct transmission of instructions, beginning with a formal homage and concluding with a statement of realization by the yogi, thereby framing the technical visualization within a context of achieved spiritual attainment.
Provenance
About this text
An instructional work on the realization of the coemergent union of emptiness, the Sahajāmnāya belongs to the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. The text is attributed to the Indian master Medhini. Preserved in the classical Tibetan period, it appears in the Tengyur, volume ཟི, under the Tibetan title lhan cig skyes pa'i gdams pa. Spanning two pages in this edition, the work enacts a meditative process centered on the heart's union. It directs the practitioner to visualize a non-dual bindu, the size of a mustard seed, expanding like an ocean of milk to fill the bodies of self and others with stainless nectar. By framing these technical visualizations between a formal homage to the Bodhisattvas and a concluding statement of attainment by the yogi, the work serves as a concise manual for collapsing duality. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to examine the specific visualization techniques and the conceptualization of the coemergent union as presented in this brief transmission.
The work is significant for its focus on the concept of sahaja (coemergence), a central tenet in various tantric traditions that emphasizes the innate unity of opposites. For the modern reader, it illustrates the use of micro-visualizations (the bindu) as a tool for achieving non-dual awareness.
Structure
Passages
Section
Description
1
Introduction and Visualization
Contains the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles, an homage, and the initial instruction to visualize a non-dual bindu in the heart.
2
Conclusion
A statement of realization regarding the coemergent union of emptiness and the attribution of the work to Medhini.
Themes
Coemergent Union (Sahaja) (1-2)
Non-dual Visualization (1)
Emptiness (2)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
In the language of India: Sahaja-ananta-āvalī-nāma. In the language of Tibet: Lhan-cig-skyes-pa’i-gdams-pa (The Instructions on the Coemergent). Homage to the Bodhisattvas.
In the center of the heart’s union,
Is the non-dual bindu, the size of a mustard seed.
One should visualize it expanding gradually,
Like an ocean of milk.
One’s own body and the bodies of others
Are filled with stainless nectar like curd.
It clears wind disorders and binds the nature of mind.
Mediti (Mehi) speaks thus.
Focusing the mind on entities, one realizes the non-entity.
Kye ho! Without distraction, hold your own mind.
The signs of yogic accomplishment are non-existent;
The connection between the two, mutual and other, is severed.
In the nature of entity and non-entity,
The coemergent is established, abiding in neither of the two extremes.
All entities are unborn;
I did not realize this because of obscurations.
All appearances are the essence of mind;
The nature of mind is unestablished, yet it is the nature of mind.
My own compassion is all-pervasive,
Unchanging like the sky.
The nature of mind abides in neither of the two.
Mediti speaks thus.
Self-knowing awareness is uncontrived; let go of activity.
Without grasping, without recollection, that is the nature of mind.
It does not become nihilistic; realize self-knowing awareness.
It does not become eternal; cut through superimpositions.
The nature of emptiness is without eternalism or nihilism.
Mediti speaks thus.
There is no view to meditate upon, no result to attain.
In appearance, there is no inherent entity.
Conceptual thoughts are like the knots of a snake;
Self-liberated, in union, beyond conventional terms.
By meditating in this way, one realizes emptiness.
Mediti speaks thus.
Translation status: Not among 84000's published translations, and not in progress there. Translations published elsewhere have not been searched for, so one may exist. (source: 84000 catalogue + registry; checked 2026-11-10).
Set in Newsreader and EB Garamond; Tibetan in Noto Serif Tibetan; Chinese in Noto Serif SC.