The Title

Aspirations for The Great Seal, the actual aim of practice

Commentary

This prayer is an aspirational prayer, a series of wishes, made by its author, RangJung Dorje, the 3^rd Karmapa. A profound master of Mahamudra, he sets out in twenty-five verses

• the conditions necessary for a fruitful spiritual practice,
• the understandings or philosophy that provides the framework for this practice,
• the key points of the practice itself, and
• how the direct knowing that is the aim of this practice takes expression in your life.

Each verse is a wish for a condition, an understanding, or an ability that makes it possible for you to know directly the nature of mind, the nature of experience, and live in that knowing. That knowing is called The Great Seal or Mahamudra.