Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

138 Timeless Rapture
All that appears to the mind and all that arises are the experience
of illusion.
Immediate, uncontrived mindfulness is the path of awakening.
The spiritual master’s speech hammers the nails of the vital
instructions.
Remember them without failure.
To maintain mindfulness with grasping is beginners’ meditation.
The path of analytic meditation is a temporarily useful teaching.
To remain relaxed and without activity in the nature of reality
Is to know the one that liberates everything: how perfectly amazing!
This song was sung for meditation on Illusory Body. Iti.
Find the gate for the arising of dreams at the edge of meditative
experience.
Join directed intent with the profound instructions.
The vital essences’ four movements create the vital point of
interdependent arising.
These are the mother wisdom dakini’s secret words.
Since the vagrant mind has no fixed reference point,
To travel upward to Joyful Heaven is not far.
Anything can appear to this mind that illumines everything.
To easily transform what appears into what is immediately needed is
the meditator’s experience.
Accept what experience arises without affirmation or denial.
Steer your practice with constant vigilance.
This song was sung for the practice of Lucid Dream. Iti.
Clear light of the basis is enlightenment’s changeless, eternal body.
Clear light of the path is unhindered bliss.
The final result is manifest, complete enlightenment.
This joins the vital instructions of basis, path, and result.