Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

This subtle contemplative practice produces clairvoyance.
You will realize the nondual state.
The nature of joy will arise,
And you will attain the result, equanimity.
Some dwell in meditation on the four deities;
Some rely on verbal recitations.
They do not know nondual meditation.
These oral teachings given for others’ benefit
Come from a lineage passed from face to face
And have been taught here by Rahula.
Rahula-gupta, who accomplished immortality, followed the predictions
of his accomplished spiritual masters and left the sublime land of India at
dawn. He traveled to Tibet by means of his miraculous powers and arrived
at daybreak at Penyul Jokpo, the retreat place of the learned and accomplished
Kyungpo Naljor. Rahula displayed some miracles and stayed for
eleven months, during which he gave various instructions, both common
and extraordinary. At the time of Rahula’s return to India, Lama Shangpa
accompanied him as far as Mangyul, where Rahula gave his disciple these
oral instructions in six-syllable vajra verses:
The root of suffering
Is clinging to a self.
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