' Yeshe '...

Yeshe is short for Tibetan “ye ne’ shespa”, meaning “primordial wisdom consciousness”.

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche says:
"In the word ཡེ་ཤེས་, yeshe, ཡེ་, yé is short for ཡེ་ནས་, yé né, which means ‘right from the beginning’ or ‘primordially’. Some people translate it as ‘pristine’ or 'pure', meaning that it is untouched and unstained, and has been there all the time. But I think we can say that yeshe is the most natural (wisdom) state of our awareness or consciousness (shespa), which is unstained, uncontrived and completely ordinary. It is there all the time, but we don’t recognize it.”

Yeshe knows itself as being differentiated from karmic self-consciousness and the conceptualizing mind (sem).

The primordial awareness, yeshe, is that consciousness which is not dependent on any prior causes or conditions. It can’t be created through practices, insights or study.

It is the famous “Wisdom Eye” as the “third eye” between and above the two human eyes, it is that “eye of awareness” which “sees” thoughts, mental, images, day dreams, night dreams and all sensory perceptions. The “eye” doesn’t ever change or become the effect of what is “seen” or known.

It is what is already “seeing” or knowing as our capacity to know and experience..

It is permanently in the condition of nirvana, while “perceiving” the samsaric phenomena of karmic mind and karmic self.

It’s never obstacled, blocked or obscured. It has no intention to alter, modify or to transform its experienced displays as seen or as experienced.

Just reading this is enough to shift consciousness from being the “seen” to being the “seeing”.


-Jackson Peterson