Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

128 Timeless Rapture
The vajra song of immortal mind’s self-liberation:
Noble spiritual master, Buddha incarnate,
To you I respectfully bow with body, voice, and mind.
The semblance of death, this thought,
Has no intrinsic nature within the innate state’s flow.
The body and mind designated as mortal
Are deathless in Great Seal’s natural freedom.
The inert body of fully ripened karma doesn’t die;
How can the body of habitual patterns or the body of dreams die?
The nature of mind’s intrinsic radiance is the deity’s body–
Clarity and emptiness without grasping, like the moon on water.
In the empty, abiding character free of formulations,
There is neither sickness nor death,
No transcendence nor wheel of life.
Everything is your deluded mind’s display.
This display’s appearances are unceasing.
This unceasing display dissolves into the sphere of the unborn.
Free from birth, cessation, or abiding,
The wisdom of immortality is amazing.
Place experience of it in a settled state free from grasping.
Meditate, merging it with every activity.