Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

210 Timeless Rapture
Is devotion’s supplications to the spiritual master,
Accompanied by thoughts of impermanence, disillusionment, and
compassion.
Never apart from this union of skillful means and transcendent
knowledge—
Vital, supreme instruction for dispelling hindrances and enriching
experience—
May they dissipate delusion on the path.
May we traverse at once the inner paths and stages,
Along the twelve levels of contemplative practice, three on each of
four,
Until reaching nonmeditation, the great body of ultimate
enlightenment.
May the immense creative power of experience and realization reach
culmination.
May appearances of delusion arise as great wisdom.
May the formulations of existence and transcendence be purified in
the basic nature.
May the characteristics of affirmation and denial be freed in their own
ground.
May desire in the view, meditation, and conduct be exhausted.
May the luminosity of the basis and the path, mother and child,
merge.
In this lifetime, may we fully achieve the two goals, for others and
ourselves—
The epitome of enlightenment’s four bodies and five wisdoms,
Powerful Buddha Vajra Bearer.
May I now accomplish what I have always wished for:
To reach the capital city of my Kagyu ancestors!
In Darjeeling district’s Mirik retreat center, Garden of Joyous Union
(Zungjuk Gatsal Ling), a sublime sacred place blessed by Lord Métripa, the
lamas of the three-year, three-fortnight retreat, led by Adzin Choktrul Rinpoché,
who has awakened to his holy heritage; and others, including Ladak
Lama Tashi Döndrub, Nyishang Lama Tashi Wangdu, Gangkar Lama