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.

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

© 2005 Mike Dickman