Tilopa’s six words of advice

These are Tilopa’s ‘six words of advice’ in their entirety. A thousand years old, jostled about in layers of translation and interpretation. Would’ve originally been six words, but it’s hard to pull that off in English. They are:Don’t recall. Don’t imagine. Don’t think. Don’t examine. Don’t control. Rest.This translation by Ken McLeod. Although these words are the basis for various practices, you might want to further explore them as a poem in translation, a beautiful and simple thing. The linked document gives the Tibetan source (itself a translation from the original, now lost), a transliteration, and both of McLeod’s English translations.