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Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

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After you finish prayers infused with <strong>the</strong> mind of awakening<br />

And union with <strong>the</strong> spiritual master’s mind,<br />

Think of your own body as <strong>the</strong> deity, appearance and emptiness.<br />

The mind’s essence inseparable <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> deity’s form,<br />

Emptiness,<br />

Was not seen, is not seen, and will never be seen by any buddha.<br />

In this, <strong>the</strong>re is no sickness, no death,<br />

No existence or transcendence, no affirmation or denial.<br />

Even if <strong>the</strong> transition [<strong>from</strong> life to death] goes badly<br />

And your presence of mind declines,<br />

Suffering at life’s end will be naturally purified<br />

When you realize this for an instant,<br />

Or recollect, hear, or are aware of it.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> first stage of <strong>the</strong> intermediate state,<br />

Clear light and <strong>the</strong> body of enlightenment’s perfect rapture,<br />

Inseparable as <strong>the</strong> manifest body of enlightenment,<br />

Will spontaneously accomplish o<strong>the</strong>rs’ benefit unceasingly.<br />

I have presented this, <strong>the</strong> buddhas’ immortal realization,<br />

For <strong>the</strong> benefit of my most mature disciples.<br />

By <strong>the</strong> virtue of this teaching,<br />

May sentient beings whose numbers fill space<br />

Realize <strong>the</strong> meaning of <strong>the</strong> wisdom of immortality.<br />

A Sea of Blessings 121<br />

This concludes <strong>the</strong> composition for my true heirs, my most mature disciples,<br />

of Natural Liberation of Your Own Immortal Mind, by <strong>the</strong> noble<br />

Virya Singha [Tsöndru Sengé]. I offered [to Sangyé Nyentön] five hundred<br />

bags of barley, seven measures of gold, one dzo, and a bolt of fine cloth<br />

<strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>rn Himalayan region to receive <strong>the</strong>se teachings, and <strong>the</strong>n<br />

I cultivated <strong>the</strong>ir experience.

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