As spoken by Manjushri to Sachen Kunga Nyingpo

When he was twelve years old, the great Sakyapa lama spent six months 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 color, was surrounded by a mass of brilliant light and seated resplendently upon a jeweled throne. He was displaying the mudra of teaching the Dharma, and was flanked on either side by two bodhisattvas. He spoke the following words:

     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.

Reflecting on the meaning of this statement, Kunga Nyingpo realized that this mind training of "parting from the four attachments" incorporates all the exoteric and esoteric practices of the path of the transcendent perfections, and he felt an extraordinary confidence in all the teachings of the Dharma.

See also H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche's A Commentary on Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen's Song of Experience on Mind Training and the View. Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen was the younger son of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo and the third patriarch of the Sakya Tradition.

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Sachen Kunga Nyingpo
(1092-1158)
First Patriarach of the Sakya Tradition