Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

A Sea of Blessings 187
Your mind never comes into being, nor does it cease or die.
Your body’s nature is inert matter; the basis for the term “death” does
not exist.
By binding the mind and circulating energy in the absolute expanse,
steered by physical exercises,
You gain the fruit on the wide, plentiful plain of all four
uncontaminated joys.
The spiritual master and the Protector inseparable guide the great
manifestations of enlightenment’s five bodies
And thereby bestow in a matter of months or years the four activities
and supreme accomplishment.
In particular, in the form of Swift Protector, Powerful All-Seeing One,
they grant protection from fear in the intermediate state.
With gestures of devotion and compassion, I treasure them as my
eternal heart gem.
Buddha Shakyamuni’s doctrine has conventional and definitive
truths, each true in its own context.
The profound teachings of accomplished masters’ lineages can be said
to be great within their own schools.
However, others don’t have even the name of the learned and
accomplished Kyungpo Naljor’s Golden Doctrines.
Those of us who drink the essence of ambrosia aren’t tempted when
offered beer.
Although my behavior is unpredictable, my mind dwells in the
ultimate state.
Although I seem brainless, I confine myself in the nature of reality.
Although my speech is contrived, my character dwells of itself in the
fundamental truth.
Thus I have not been able to remain impartial: behold this vagrant’s
writing!
In this life and in all my lifetimes, may I wrap the wish-fulfilling jewel
of the Golden Doctrines
In the splendid cloak of my heart and thus reach the place of victory,
vajra union.