[The following selections consists of the first part of the Song of My ...

The Contemplation on the Truth of the Source
The contemplation on the truth of the source of suffering is expressed here in the
root text:
,'KHOR BAR GANG GIS BCINGS PA SHES PA GCES, ,RNAL 'BYOR NGAS
KYANG NYAMS LEN DE LTAR BGYIS, ,THAR 'DOD KHYED KYANG DE
BZHIN BSKYANG 'TSAL LO,
(15c)
Finding out about this suffering cycle
should be treated with great concern.
I, the master meditator,
put this into practice;
You, who seek for freedom, must
try to practice this way.
,GNYIS PA NI, 'KHOR BAR GANG GIS SOGS TE, 'KHOR BAR 'CHING BA
BYED GANG GIS BCINGS PA SHES PA GCES PA STE GAL CHE'O, , 'CHING
BYED LA LAS NYON GNYIS TE KHYAD PAR PHYE NA MANG YANG , DON
BSGRIL NA SO SKYE'I RGYUD KYI 'DOD CHAGS KHONG KHRO NGA
RGYAL MA RIG PA THE TSOM NYON MONGS CAN PHRAG DOG SOGS
NYON MONGS THAMS CAD NI NYON MONGS PA'I KUN 'BYUNG BDEN
PA YIN LA, NYON MONGS DES KUN NAS BSLANGS PA'I LAS DGE MI DGE
GANG YIN KYANG LAS KYI KUN 'BYUNG BDEN PA YIN NO,
Finding out about what chains you to this suffering cycle should be treated as
something extremely important and with great concern. You are chained by both
your deeds and your bad thoughts. If we were to divide these out into all of
their different forms, there would be a great many of them. To state it in a
nutshell, the mental afflictions in the mindstream of a common person—that is,
desire, anger, pride, ignorance, bad forms of doubt, jealousy, and so on—are all
the truth of the source of suffering in the form of mental afflictions, and the
deeds which are motivated by them—both virtuous and non-virtuous—are the
truth of the source of suffering in the form of deeds.