***And my goddess spoke:*** I pay homage to you, mind itself: primordial lucid clarity by nature, satisfying all needs and desires, like a wish-fulfilling jewel. For your benefit I will explain *Stages in the Path of Fantasy,* the central theme that is the quintessence of the minds of the ocean of victors. Beginningless basic space itself, primordially nonexistent fantasy, is the seed of all phenomena, the buddha nature, and virtue. It is known as the essential base of all. If you practice like magic, you awaken like magic through the power of devotion. So listen well as I duly explain the five paths and ten bhumis as fantasy. The entire animate and inanimate world and whatever appears to the five senses is all the empty image of my Body. My Body is boundless fantasy. You should take into practice all the wings of awakening as inseparable from the image of my Body. The stages on the five paths and ten bhumis are traversed on the strength of devotion. The sublime vital point of the tantras' intention is to never be separate from the Beloved's manifestation. Thus, the extraordinary practice is to experience all the sights and sounds of phenomena as the nature of myself and the Beloved. Shapes, colors, the five poisons, and types of accomplishing activity are the five buddha families. Whatever appears is appearance and emptiness: creation and completion and their unity. One should know this through the purifying vase empowerment, the secret empowerment of inseparable white and red essences, the third empowerment, the aspect of bliss, and the fourth inexpressible empowerment. Where there is bliss, clarity, and nonthought, there the three kāyas are naturally arising. Clarity without concept is twofold knowledge. ## The paths Since wisdom and nourishing delight are combined together, and since it is supreme, and one desires to arrive, it is called "path." ## The path of accumulation The Path of Accumulation is to renounce vice, however small, and to take up virtue, gathering accumulations in order to realize the fantasy of the nature of phenomena. There are greater, intermediate, and lesser levels, each formulated with further fourfold division: four mindfulnesses, four renunciations, and four bases of psychic power. Carelessness and impaired mindfulness cause downfalls. Therefore mindfulness is explained first. ### Four foundations of mindfulness To practice mindfulness and awareness of the fantasy of inseparable image-emptiness of your soulless body as my Body is the direct application of mindfulness to the body. The reference-points of pleasure, pain, equanimity, and the sensations of all designated phenomena understood as mere sensation are the direct application of mindfulness to sensation. All phenomena are mind, yet mind will not be found inside or outside. Mind not existing at all except as fantasy is the application of mindfulness to the mind. Shrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas label all things as phenomena. To know them as random labels of mere names is the application of mindfulness to phenomena. ### Four right exertions Suffering is caused by nonvirtues. Since those who desire freedom from it regard all nonvirtue as though it were poison, there are four right exertions. In order to not generate vice and unvirtuous factors that have not arisen, arouse determination, effort, and attention to fully engage in what is right. In order to renounce vice and unvirtuous factors that have not arisen, arouse determination, effort, and attention to fully engage what is right. In order to generate virtuous attributes that have not arisen, arouse determination, effort, and attention to fully engage in what is right. In order that virtuous attributes that have arisen may remain and increase without any diminishing, and not be lost or wasted, arouse determination, effort, and attention to fully engage in what is right.