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[[Image:Sachen Kunga Nyingpo.JPG|frame|[[Sachen Kunga Nyingpo]]]]'''Parting from the Four Attachments''' (Tib. ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་, ''shyenpa shyidral'', [[Wyl.]] ''zhen pa bzhi bral'') — a short teaching spoken by [[Manjushri]] to the [[Sakya]] patriarch [[Sachen Kunga Nyingpo]].
 
==The Teaching==
When he was twelve years old, the great Sakyapa lama spent six months in strict retreat<ref>The location of his retreat was Manjushri Cave, located on the North side of Sakya town, in [[Tsang]] province.</ref> doing the practice of Arya Manjushri, and as a result, on one occasion he had a direct vision of the deity. The glorious Manjughosha, orange in colour, was surrounded by a mass of brilliant light and seated resplendently upon a jewelled throne. He was displaying the [[mudra of teaching the Dharma]], and was flanked on either side by two [[bodhisattva]]s. He spoke the following words:

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:“If you are attached to this life, you are not a true spiritual practitioner.
:If you are attached to [[samsara]], you do not have [[renunciation]].
:If you are attached to your own self-interest, you have no [[bodhichitta]].
:If there is grasping, you do not have the [[View]].”
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::<big>༈ ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ཆོས་པ་མིན། <br>
::འཁོར་བ་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ངེས་འབྱུང་མིན། <br>
::རང་དོན་ལ་ཞེན་ན་བྱང་སེམས་མིན། <br>
::འཛིན་པ་འབྱུང་ན་ལྟ་བ་མིན།<br></big>
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Reflecting on the meaning of this statement, Kunga Nyingpo realized that this mind training of ‘parting from the four attachments’ incorporates all the practices of the path of the [[six paramitas|transcendent perfections]], and he felt an extraordinary confidence in all the teachings of the [[Dharma]]. ''Samāptamithi''.

==Alternative Translation==

If you cling to this life, you are not a practitioner;

If you cling to the three realms, that is not renunciation;

If you cling to self-interest, you are not a bodhisattva;

If grasping arises, it is not the view.<ref>''Mind Training, The Great Collection'', translated by Thupten Jinpa for the Institute of Tibetan Classics, Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-440-7, page 517.</ref>

==Alternative Tibetan==
<big>༈  ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ཆོས་པ་མིན། 

ཁམས་གསུམ་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ངེས་འབྱུང་མིན། 

བདག་དོན་ལ་ཞེན་ན་བྱང་སེམས་མིན། 

འཛིན་པ་བྱུང་ན་ལྟ་བ་མིན།</big>

==Tibetan text==
*{{TBRCW|O3LS5428|O3LS54283LS14229$W2DB4570|ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་གྱི་གདམས་པ།, ''zhen pa bzhi bral gyi gdams pa/''}}

==Tibetan Commentaries==
*[[Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen]]’s (1147-1216) ''Parting from the Four Attachments''
*[[Sakya Pandita]]’s (1182-1251) ''Instruction on Parting from the Four Attachments''
*[[Nubpa Rigdzin Drak]]’s (thirteenth century) ''Parting from the Four Attachments'' 
*[[Goram Sönam Senge]] (1429-1489), ''A Key to the Profound Essential Points: A Meditation Guide to Parting from the Four Attachments''<ref>Translated in ''Mind Training, The Great Collection'', by [[Thupten Jinpa]] for the Institute of Tibetan Classics, Wisdom Publications.</ref>
*[[Kunga Lekpé Rinchen]] (fifteenth century), ''A Concise Guide to Parting from the Four Attachments''<ref>Translated in ''Mind Training, The Great Collection'', by [[Thupten Jinpa]] for the Institute of Tibetan Classics, Wisdom Publications.</ref>
*[[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] (1820-1892), ''Nectar of the Heart—An Experiential Song of Parting from the Four Attachments''

==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
{{Tibetan}}
*Kyabjé [[Trulshik Rinpoche]], Rigpa London, June (?) 1987
*His Holiness [[Sakya Trizin]], Rigpa London, May 1995
*[[Pewar Rinpoche]], [[Lerab Ling]], Tuesday 15 May 2007
*[[Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche]], Lerab Ling, 21 June 2008
*His Holiness [[Sakya Trizin]], [[Lerab Ling]], 1 & 2 August 2014

==Further Reading/Modern Commentaries==
*[[Chogye Trichen Rinpoche]], ''Parting from the Four Attachments'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2003)
*His Holiness [[Sakya Trizin]], ''Parting from the Four Attachments'' (Shangshung Institute publications)
*[[Sachen Kunga Nyingpo]], ''Lojong Shenpa Shidrel, The Mind-training of Parting from the Four Attachments'', with commentary by [[Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche]] (Siddhartha’s Intent, 2012)
*''Mind Training, The Great Collection'', translated by [[Thupten Jinpa]] for the Institute of Tibetan Classics, Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-440-7, pages 517-566.

==References==
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==External Links==
*{{LH|topics/lojong/translations|A series of translations of commentaries on ''Parting from the Four Attachments'' are available at Lotsawa House.}}
*[http://www.hhthesakyatrizin.org/teach_fourattach1.html A Teaching on Sachen Kunga Nyingpo’s Parting from the Four Attachments by His Holiness Sakya Trizin]

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