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Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

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240 <strong>Timeless</strong> <strong>Rapture</strong><br />

Inseparable bliss and emptiness, <strong>the</strong> true vajra of space,<br />

Pervades all animate and inanimate life.<br />

Your sublime enlightened mind of luminous Great Seal<br />

Is coemergent and uncontaminated; to you I pray.<br />

Epitome of <strong>the</strong> qualities of freedom and maturity,<br />

You have an inconceivable life.<br />

Just hearing your voice inspires uncontaminated bliss.<br />

Sublime wish-fulfilling jewel, to you I pray.<br />

You unite in pleasure with all victors and bodhisattvas.<br />

Your emanations reach <strong>the</strong> four elements’ limits.<br />

Like an excellent vase, a gem, or a wish-fulfilling tree,<br />

Your enlightened activity is spontaneously present; to you I pray.<br />

Your compassion knows no distance and embraces all equally.<br />

You guide fortunate persons on <strong>the</strong> path to <strong>the</strong> celestial realms.<br />

Your loving face wears <strong>the</strong> conscientious smile of compassion.<br />

Friend to all beings, to you I pray.<br />

To your child who preserves <strong>the</strong> lineage and who prays to you,<br />

Show your loving face and joyfully grant me your supreme prophecy.<br />

Bestow <strong>the</strong> empowerment of great vajra wisdom,<br />

And bless me that I merge inseparably with you.<br />

(A Garland of Udumvara Flowers, pp. 4a-5a)

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