Thaganapa, the “Compulsive Liar”, was one of the 84 Indian Vajrayana Mahasiddhas….

塔噶納巴，”老是在打妄語的人”，是古印度金剛乘八十四大成就者之一….

有天，塔噶納巴又在樹下想著要如何騙人，此時一位僧人對他述說說謊的果報，讓他感到害怕，但他一時又難以戒除，於是僧人依他的心性指導他不需改變妄語便可修行的方法，塔噶納巴依口訣修練七年，了悟空性，獲得成就，最後傳法授徒，最終即身進入空行淨土。(維基百科)

Thaganapa was born in eastern India. Since an early age, he showed criminal tendencies and depended on exploitation and deception. One day while sitting on a log at the edge of a town plotting a con job, a wise monk passed by and asked why he was in such deep thoughts. Thaganapa was about to tell a lie when the monk interrupted and said: if he’s about to tell a lie and create a habit out of it, when the karma matures he will be reborn in hell. Thaganapa turned pale, and the monk continued to educate him about the physical effects of lying.

The doctrine of karma taught by the monk made complete sense to Thaganapa. So when the monk asked if he is capable of practicing a sadhanas, he agreed. The monk began to give Thaganapa instruction in the yoga called “removing water in the ear by means of water”. Next he gave him the initiation that matures the immature mindstream. Then he was taught these precepts: “All that you see, hear, tough, think you perceive with the six senses, indeed, all that you experience, is nothing but a lie.”

For 7 years Thaganapa meditated and gained the understanding that all experience of the phenomenal world is a fiction. Gaining detachment, he acquired the qualities of clarity, control, and equanimity. He then searched for his guru for confirmation, and the monk said, “Experience is neither deception nor truth. Reality is uncreated, indeterminate. Now you must meditate upon your experience of all things as emptiness rendered empty by its very nature.”

Thaganapa obeyed his guru and returned to his practice, eventually gaining siddhi. After many years of selfless service, he was assumed into the Paradise of the Dakinis.

Mahasiddha Shyalipa ||
大成就者 夏利巴


84 Mahasiddhas ||
84 大成就者


Mahasiddha Tangtepa ||
大成就者 塔噶納巴