The Perfection of Content

The content of true teaching is itself a form of virtue, complete from its first note to its final consequence.
It stirs devotion—faith that opens the heart and makes it receptive to truth.
It generates joy—the delight that arises when one realizes, through clear reasoning,
that liberation is not distant but entirely possible.
And it cultivates intelligence—the concentrated intuition that perceives reality directly.

Its meaning is twofold, illuminating both the conventional world where beings move
and the ultimate ground where all constructions dissolve.
Its expression is easy to understand,
not because it is simplistic, but because its words are sensible and precise,
crafted so that the mind can enter without obstruction.
Through this clarity, it sets forth the spiritual life endowed with four excellences.

This way of life is unique.
It shares nothing essential with the methods of the world;
its aim, its means, its vision are of a wholly different order.
It is fulfilling,
for it accomplishes what all lesser systems fail to touch—
the abandonment of the addictions and compulsions that bind beings across the three realms.
It is naturally pure, untouched at its core by any stain.
And it is fully purified,
for in those who walk it to completion even the subtlest taints have been washed away.

Thus the teaching’s content is perfect in beginning, middle, and end.
It awakens faith, brings joy, sharpens wisdom.
It reveals the world as it appears and as it truly is.
And it lays out a way of life unlike any other—
one that frees completely,
purifies completely,
and returns the seeker to the purity that was never absent.