Parting from the Four Attachments

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ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ཆོས་པ་མིན། །

If you are attached to this life, you are not a person of Dharma. (HH Sakya Trizin and Jay Goldberg)

If you cling to this life, you are not a practitioner; (Thupten Jinpa)

If attached to this life, you are not a dharma practitioner; (Rigpa Translations)

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ཁམས་གསུམ་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ངེས་འབྱུང་མིན། །

If you are attached to the world of existence you do not have renunciation. (HH Sakya Trizin and Jay Goldberg)

If you cling to the three realms, that is not renunciation; (Thupten Jinpa)

If attached to the three realms, you have no renunciation; (Rigpa Translations)

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བདག་དོན་ལ་ཞེན་ན་བྱང་སེམས་མིན། །

If you are attached to your own purpose, you do not have Bodhicitta. (HH Sakya Trizin and Jay Goldberg)

If you cling to self-interest, you are not a bodhisattva; (Thupten Jinpa)

If attached to your own self-interest, you have no bodhicitta; (Rigpa Translations)

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འཛིན་པ་བྱུང་ན་ལྟ་བ་མིན། །

If grasping arises, you do not have the view. (HH Sakya Trizin and Jay Goldberg)

If grasping arises, it is not the view. (Thupten Jinpa)

If there is grasping, you do not have the view. (Rigpa Translations)

Remarks

From the book "Parting from the Four Attachments" by Chogye Trichen Rinpoche (HH Sakya Trizin and Jay Goldberg)

Mind Training, The Great Collection, translated by Thupten Jinpa for the Institute of Tibetan Classics, Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-440-7, page 517. (Thupten Jinpa)

Rigpa Translations 2011. Revised 2012. (Rigpa Translations)