The Purification of the Three Spheres of Practice

The spiritual genius exerts herself with magnificent, heroic effort—
not frantic, not tense, but vast, courageous, and joyful.
Her striving is directed toward the purification of both herself and others,
for she knows that the path is incomplete
as long as suffering remains anywhere in the world.

This purification reaches its perfection
only when the three spheres of practice dissolve:

• the sense of a practitioner,
• the sense of a practice,
• and the sense of a result to be attained.

Through supreme, impeccable, nonconceptual intelligence—
the direct intuition of the selflessness of all things—
these distinctions cease to appear.
There is action, but no actor.
There is cultivation, but no one who cultivates.
There is progress, but no self who advances.

In this state, effort becomes effortless,
and practice becomes the natural expression of wisdom itself.

Gradually—yet inevitably—
she enters the unexcelled accomplishment:
a realization unstained by conceptual fabrication,
a freedom in which self and other are purified together,
and the entire field of experience becomes
a single radiance without division.

This is the purification of practice at its highest:
no doer, no deed, no object—
only the luminous functioning
of awakened intelligence.