Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

The Shangpa Masters and Their Lineage 233
Vajra illusory reflections, such as smoke, developed together.
You completed the branch of familiarization; to you I pray.
You used your breath to block dark circulating energies and made
them descend to your belly.
You joined the vitality and descending energies equally at the six
energy centers,
Blocking the movement of the six elements’ sun and moon.
You completed the branch of proximate accomplishment; to you I
pray.
You transcended the three seals to reach incomparable Great Seal.
The innate light of its unchanging, coemergent bliss
Created your ten-faceted illusory body, replete with all powers.
You completed the branch of accomplishment; to you I pray.
You blocked the twenty-one thousand six hundred circulating
energies and attained that many forms of changeless bliss.
At the crown of your head, the mind of awakening became stable,
And you traversed awakening’s stages in an instant.
You completed the branch of great accomplishment; to you I pray.
Through engaging in conduct that is enlightenment’s direct cause,
You enjoyed many pleasures and were nurtured spiritually by Buddha
Vajra Bearer.
Your fortune equaled his—your body of training’s integral union
Works for beings whose numbers equal space; to you I pray.
You saw directly all phenomena without obscuration
And opened inconceivable millions of gates to meditative states.
You master the secret treasury of all victorious ones.
Consort of all buddhas, to you I pray.
Body of great bliss, emptiness and compassion inseparable,
Manifestation of blissful buddhas, sovereign of common and supreme
accomplishment,
Powerful bodhisattva on awakening’s tenth stage, glorious guide
for beings,