Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

NIGUMA
The wisdom dakini known as Nigupta, illustrious Narotapa’s sister,
was a self-manifest yogini, a powerful lord bodhisattva on
awakening’s tenth stage, who received direct instruction from Conqueror
Vajra Bearer. She sang these vajra verses of self-liberating Great Seal:
Nature of mind,
Wish-fulfilling jewel, to you I bow.
Wishing to attain perfect enlightenment,
Visualize your body clearly as the deity
To purify ordinary thoughts.
Develop a noble intention to help others
And pure devotion to your spiritual master.
Don’t dwell on your spiritual master or the deity.
Don’t bring anything to mind,
Be it real or imagined.
Rest uncontrived in the innate state.
Your own mind, uncontrived, is the body of ultimate enlightenment.
To remain undistracted within this is meditation’s essential point.
Realize the great, boundless, expansive state.
Myriad thoughts of anger and desire
Propel you within the seas of existence.
Take the sharp sword of the unborn state
And cut through them to their lack of intrinsic nature.
When you cut a tree’s root,
Its branches won’t grow.
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