Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

212 Timeless Rapture
Accept these feast offerings of the pleasures of appearing existence,
gods’ and humans’ finest possessions;
Enjoy them in the great wisdom of integral union, appearance-emptiness
without attachment.
Accept these feast offerings of the five meats and five nectars, pure
forms of the five families’ male and female buddhas;
Enjoy them in great equanimity toward marks and concepts of
cleanliness or filth.
Accept these feast offerings of Ah and Ham’s blazing and melting, the
essential substance of your own body’s skillful means and
transcendent knowledge;
Enjoy them in the coemergent festival of great bliss-emptiness
without attachment.
Accept these feast offerings of mental activity, my own mind arising
unhindered as any appearance of existence and transcendence;
Enjoy them in the great pervasive expanse, the intrinsic display of
awareness-emptiness without clinging.
Spiritual heroes and dakinis of pure sacred places and regions, outer,
inner, and other—
Enjoy this feast gathering, a festival of great, uncontaminated blissemptiness.
Bind our aggregates and sense elements within the unobscured
essential substance of our bodies’ channels, circulating energies,
and vital essence.
Make changeless coemergent wisdom manifest now.
Above, the vajra master, my noble master imbued with kindness;
Between, brothers and sisters with pure commitments, my vajra companions;
Below, fortunate men and women, persons with pure faith and
devotion—
Accept the wisdom ambrosia of these feast substances with no
attachment to ordinary appearances,