Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

Grasping the illusory city of life’s six realms
And to wander there endlessly is pointless.
Rinchen Tsöndru’s vajra song of the view, meditation, and conduct:
Once you’ve realized the meaning beyond birth or cessation,
Your view can be higher than others or not; it doesn’t matter.
Settle the mind in a state without a focal point.
To be without dualistic clinging is the view.
Once you’ve realized that enlightenment’s three bodies never separate
from you,
Your tranquillity can be stable or not; it doesn’t matter.
Settle in a state without effort.
Clarity without distraction is meditation.
If you are undistracted whether walking, lying down, or sitting,
Your conduct can be coarse or not; it doesn’t matter.
Settle in a state without fear.
To live without attachment is conduct.
Once you realize clarity without substantiality,
Your experience can blaze or not; it doesn’t matter.
Settle in the inexpressible.
To have certainty is meditative experience.
Once you’ve realized the meaning beyond hope or fear,
You can attain ultimate enlightenment or not; it doesn’t matter.
Settle in a state without anger or desire.
That which exists primordially is the result.
The vajra song of immortal mind:
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The discourses, tantras, pith instructions, and experience
Teach the vital instruction of immortality, enlightenment without
meditation.