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Gravitas Levitas
Spring 2005   Vol. 21 #2
Spring 2005   Vol. 21 #2

Poems/Not Poems

secret oral instructions on practice

By Kyabje Künzang Dechen Lingpa, Mike Dickman

 
 

 

maintain the essence while sleeping and drowsing:

this is the secret teaching liberating lethargy into luminosity

 

maintain the essence while eating and drinking:

rejoice in your food and drink as an inexhaustible feast-offering

 

maintain the essence as you come and go:

true movement is actually circumambulation

 

maintain the essence while resting at your ease:

sitting stably is “assuming the seated posture”

 

maintain the essence as you talk and chat:

the actual nature of speech and utterance is mantra-recitation

 

maintain the essence when angry and irritable:

anger dissolves in the ultimate nature of reality

 

maintain the essence when happy and contented:

happiness and contentment are the bliss-emptiness of primordial awareness

 

a lineal descendant of Guru Padmasambhava,

I am happy no matter what I do

my conduct fearless

 

I dance the dance of perfect freedom from having to accept this and reject that

I hum this little tune of freedom from hopes and fears

and realize the accomplishment that is neither attained nor conferred

 

how delightful!—what great pleasure!

 

This is by Künzang Dhechen Lingpa

 

May virtue abound

 

 

This text was written recently by Kyabje Künzang Dechen Lingpa of Rangapara in Assam as an instruction to one of his disciples.

 

 

∞

 

From the Spring 2005 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 21, No. 2)
© 2005 Mike Dickman

Topics

Translation, Freedom, Poetry, Practice, Tibetan Buddhism


Author

Poet and translator Mike Dickman lives in Paris, where he makes his living translating Tibetan and alchemical texts and teaching taijiquan. He is the author of Treasure Trove of Blessing and Protection: The Seven-Chapter Prayer of the Great Teacher Padmasambava. Read more of his work online at http://jungcircle.com/mist/.

Author

Poet and translator Mike Dickman lives in Paris, where he makes his living translating Tibetan and alchemical texts and teaching taijiquan. He is the author of Treasure Trove of Blessing and Protection: The Seven-Chapter Prayer of the Great Teacher Padmasambava. Read more of his work online at http://jungcircle.com/mist/.

 
 
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