Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

A Cloud of Magical Offerings, a spontaneous vajra melody of sound and
emptiness:
Ah-Ho!
How wonderful!
The basis, the place of liberation,
Where the eight collections’ delusions disperse,
Is the glorious mountain.
Circle of awareness-holding dakinis,
Playful dance in magical luminosity, to you I bow.
To delight spiritual heroes and dakinis,
I sing this song, an offering of the melody of sound and emptiness.
In the voice of infinite pure channels,
I sing the song of the phase of creation, appearance-emptiness.
The collection of conceptual delusion’s aggregates and sense elements
Dissolves within the bodies of the three seats’ deities.
In the voice of circulating energy that plays in the central channel,
I sing the song of mantra recitation, clarity-emptiness.
All attachment to sounds and words’ intrinsic characteristics
Dissolves within scripture and realization.
In the voice of the great bliss of the vital essence,
I sing the song of the four joys, bliss-emptiness.
All bonds of ordinary obscuring emotions
Dissolve within the luminosity of union.
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In the voice of inexpressible intrinsic awareness,
I sing the song of settling in the innate state’s spontaneous expanse.
All dualistic thoughts’ myriad forms
Dissolve within simultaneous arising and liberation.
In the voice of the kati crystal channel,
I sing the song of rainbow drops.
All marks of aggregates’ and sense elements’ solidity
Dissolve within the exhaustion of phenomena beyond the mind’s
domain.