Once There Was A Dream

April 10th, 2010

Total mindfulness is the union of the sense base with the sense objects.

Enlightenment is a shore distant from the fantasy that appears before me.

When the story has told it’s end, unlimited potentiality is again at play.

In a dance of vastness in space appear karmic visions, held and un-held.

The void nature of seeing reveals a paper thin cover on the light to my eyes.

Posing as real, a thin veil woven from interconnected strands of infinite light.

O emha, I saw that obtainment of a single resolution is but a mere joke.

Until the karmic commentary completely comes to an end, there is no hope.

O emha, The vastness of this now is beyond any measure of fearless beauty.

Colored woven lights become rays by four sounds as the arisen, A in the center.

O emha, There is only vastness beyond what is being imagined to be real.

This is the resource of joy from which pours nectar to satiate all beings.

Om emha, The appearance of light entwined as living beings is perfectly pure.

With only silence as a backdrop there is the appearance of the watcher of time.

Om emha, As the red letter BAM her sources are revealed as that which has risen.

Just as in any marriage when the hero of space appears her heart will embrace.

Om emha, Investigation of the aggregates will show it is only a skin to be worn.

View, mixed with HUM, mind of the hero, gives birth to compassion for all in space.

Oh emha, Within the boundless space of equalities peace is a shared co-wonder.

TAM, the great mother enfolds a risen child with her cloud-like bodhicitta mind.

Oh emha, Flower petals of lotus wisdom flow from the Goddess gone green to save.

TAM, jewels of her crown shines forth shimmering lights offering the Treasure Vase.

Oh emha, YAM, the sword of truth is set ablaze in knowing wisdom, a reflecting mirror.

As all is interdependently a set of karmic conditions for both the observed and observer.

Oh emha, Jewel like family of the high mountain peaks of the mysterious Mount Meru.

Such are the conditions that bring that which is immeasurable through out the Universe.

May all mother like sentient beings find happiness and the cause of happiness,

May all mother like sentient beings find liberation of the karmic causes of suffering,

May all mother like sentient beings find the joy that knows no suffering,

May all mother like sentient beings find the freedom from attraction and adversion.

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No Real Concerns

April 10th, 2010

It is said that at the time of death the Earth element dissolves to water.
Then the water element disolves to the fire and the fire to air.
Air then dissovles to all encompassing space and the nature of mind appears.

Perhaps then in this life one can disolve all appearances to agreegates.
All agreegates to the six realms and the beings there disolves to mental objects.
Mental objects are disolved by the 12 links and the five-fold mahamudra appears.
Five fold Mahamudra abides as all space hence no real concerns at all.

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Between The Sun and Source

April 2nd, 2010

This rainbow of cosmic display appears dependent.
In this circle of eight arise all beings marked as essence.
Some abide in a prison of their own making below.
While others fly about the center looking for cause.

Entering into the great vehicle is a step to the center.
A sacred movement to the Great Mother’s voiceless tune.
If the string is too tight the karmic harmonic descends.
If the string is too loose the melody is scattered to space.

When the four greats are found as her lotus petal feet.
The un-struck bell resounds a purity of silent existence.
In that void of movement abides the ever still refrain.
A magical seat with four magnificent wings unfolds.

All consciousness emerges and descends on this seat.
All consciousness ascends homeward this sacred path.
Aggregates are but reflections in water we call time.
Mental objects are labels of attraction and aversion.

To discover the four within is way to the source.
Call them Bhagavhan and you see all as children.
This frees the habituation of wandering in search of.
As all that arises becomes a transition of to and fro.

When the Ax man strikes the composition to the ground.
Within a single sound all is place in the perfect place.
The four abiding directly ascend without wandering a bit.
Right through the vastness of space landing in Dewachen.

All praise to the Buddhas and protectors of this path.
All glory to the Masters who teach the perfected way.
This life is but a drop from an Ocean of Compassion.
A tear that has fallen through space from heaven above.

OM AH HUM PHAT

Homage to the Drikung Powa Master Traga Rinpoche

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What has happened to my friend love

February 3rd, 2010

What has happened to authentic love.

Now appearing gone only hidden in the pain.

Bodhi love is a natural state of being.

Who’s face is being hidden within shame.

In the world around there is space for love.

With eyes of love one sees one face in all faces.

In this abode of luminous mind there’s no thirst.

There is no hunger nor suffering gone ignored.

A simple veiw of all the stars of light in the night.

A field of Bodhimind ever present to set us free.

In the human heart it abides as an auspicious gift.

A precious wish fulfilling jewel offered in grace.

In this karma one finds mercy on the path.

Within compassions embrace no other exist.

A lotus flower on a blue star in a vast sea of life.

May we all find happiness in this mind of love.

May we all live free of suffering in this abode of love.

May we all find the joy of being one in this love.

May we all be free of self obsession and anger through awakening to this love.


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She Take No Prisoners and Liberates All

February 3rd, 2010

Due to ignorance of the combined nature of deity arising as pure nature and afflictive emotions I have repeatedly cursed the very nature of my Buddha being.

As a child the word was given through a lineage of ignorance and hence I have use it mindlessly. As this mindless leads to the placing of curses upon what appears to be other in reality I have only succeded in cursing the Buddha nature which abides in all living things. As the cursing of others is placed upon the very nature of that which I long to be present with I have built my own ice cell imprisonment from the afflictive emotions of ignorance, attachment, hatred, jelousy, pride. All the while living in the delusion of self accomplishment.

Fortunately this cube of icy emotions is becoming crystal clear. Investigating the true nature of being while sitting within the block ice I can now begin to invite the wisdom fires of the six paramitas to melt away this icy imprisonment of selfhood.
This cause of turning the wheel I can only attribute to my precious Lamas and Yidam for the gift of understanding the nature of speech as a two edge sword. When speech is used as a curse it creates an icy prison which takes one directly to the cubical of sentience in the frozen hell realms. When used as a feather blessing it can melt the icy block of self and other. In blue waters of emptiness there abides the single taste of nectar.
May the fires of Vajrayogini blaze as long as space remains to free beings from their icy sentience and continually place them in the Buddha field’s with glourious intention and blessings.
Composed in Retreat New Years 2010

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For the Hahayana Master

February 3rd, 2010

Precious Jewel like laughing yogi who moves us to courageous bodhisattva activities.

Your great mind is like a shinning crystal gem of the six colors and complete with 50 perfections.

Your great speech is like a wheel of 37 glorious intentions to free all beings from suffering.

You great body is like the union of heaven and earth, the wisdom dakini and compassionate daka.

It is clear that you have appeared to be our guiding light within our stormy western egos.

The jewel like nature of your mind contains all the precious intentions to bring us to liberation.

Your wings and practices are vast in their shimmering beauty offered compassionately to all.

With clear light wisdom nature you have joined that which is primordially pure.

Great laughing precious jewel may we have the courage to take up the lamp you offer.

May our hesitant footstep remain firm on your treasured steps leading us toward our awakening.

With the brilliance of a 16 year old playful laughing enlightened child you give the signs.

Your heart is jeweled in the colors of Dependent Origination’s doctrine, the liberation of love.

To your root you have taken the Four Immeasurables’ as a seat beneath a forrest tree.

With the Moon as a cushion you touch all that approach with the six perfections of right conduct.

There you sit on the Lion’s Sun throne with the great eight offerings for all sentient beings.

Precious Lotus Master may you remain with us in our darkened stumble toward happiness.

May all beings be liberated from obsession and the aggressive desire for imagined essence.

May many disciples weary of samsara’s salty taste appear at your Lotus feet to drink dharma’s ambrosia.

The Lotus essence of One-taste gained through your perfect union of Body, Speech and Mind.

We wish you the best belated birthday Precious Master, may you continue to flower us.

Om Ah Hum

Composed for Zachoje Rinpoche on his Birthday July 2009.

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Verses for Sara

February 3rd, 2010

Just a story looking for a completion

A happy ending to a tragic movie’s past

It’s playing now in the depths of mind

Images and thoughts rolling soundly forth

Characters developed by magic mirrors

Suddenly like a flash Buddha appears

Loving eyes of compassion speak soft

The story is complete naturally as it is

As you are complete with out the story

Now is the ground for the path to completion

In now, I am the light of your body

I am the universal one beyond mind

I am the radiant one that’s always present

I am the lamp in the darkened theater

In now, I am the light of the movie projector

Always as I am I am the being of now

In this theater of illusion never very far

My lotus seat flowers luminously in your heart

Call me with your breath and I will show

Here in this now the entire universe abides

Base awareness is this beggar’s eternal lamp

No body, no speech, no composite of mind

Just resting as the light behind all appearances

Emaho

Composed for a Friend, 23rd Day of October 2009, 1154 Days to 12/21/12

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The Lion Before Me

February 3rd, 2010

I can see the Lord Buddha in your heart, even through the clouds in my eyes.

When I needed a protector in the darkness of my egoic ways, you appeared as a loving friend.

When I was weary of questioning the nature of mind, you placed it as an offering in my heart.

When I needed to face the dangers of my habitual ignorance, you gave a sword – appearing fierce.

When I needed to know the inner mind of the goddess, you opened her green kimono.

When I was yearning for passionate embrace with dawn’s clarity, the red lady was your heart.

It is through your love that you have given this beggar thief the treasure jewels of the Universe.

Your humor and antics cause thoughts of joy, everyday reminding me to practice Bodhimind.

I can not fathom the causes and merit to become a heart under your guiding wings.

Within this vast Ocean of Space we call the Universe, beings like me wander endlessly.

I am fortunate beyond measure  to sit at your lotus feet and smile.

There is no question, precious Buddha, of why you have done this for me- for us.

You are the Bodhimind; embodied beyond the conceptual in Love and Compassion.

Thank you Great Dharma master, Snow Lion who lives amongst the untamed.

May you have many more Birthdays with your heart children who you lead so well.

Composed for Gelek Rimpoche on his 70th Birthday

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Pre Retreat Thoughts

February 2nd, 2010

Pre Retreat Thoughts

Stories of unhappiness and misery abound in the world.

Given any conversation they arise like lost children.

Thoughts that emanate from their mouths are like stones.

I chase after they like a dog at play in the mid day Sun.

Who are these playful demons having a rout in my mind.

Where do they call home in this vast sea of space?

In little huts of poison they live while not knowing.

Not knowing their true nature is spacious like sky.

When the Sun shines and melts the snow they linger.

Another stone is tossed and again I believe it has true existence.

After it I chase into the cave of self clinging darkened self-hood.

I am fortunate when the stone lands at the feet of death.

There in his cave the great Yama awakens me; Phat.

Running away in terror I emerge to find the stone thrower.

Facing the shadowy caster of misery I see it has no true existence.

It is really nothing more than a though composed mirage.

Translucent in appearance I can see it’s empty nature is pure.

In the skyscape blizzzard of sentience rainbows appear.

The mother of all sentient beings arises from this magic display.

She give me the keys to the treasure held within my own heart.

Four lines which are the summation of his treasure teachings.

May all mother sentient beings, boundless as the sky, have happiness and the causes of happiness.

May they be liberated from suffering and the causes of suffering.

May they never be separated from the happiness which is free from sorrow.

May rest in equanimity, free from attraction and aversion.

With this wisdom may I have the courage to practice day and night.

And may I soon see the poverty of casting stones and begin to cast the light.

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Morning Poem

February 2nd, 2010

Co Emergence Mahamudra

Can Rainbows exist without clouds?

Can they appear without a mirror?

When I was a sleep the Sun was hidden and the Stars were distant.

I dreamed of my Mother, my Father and my Lama.

When I awoke the Sun was my heart and I could touch the Stars although I was sitting in the same place.

Then I took a seat on the Moon supported by four lions upon which rest an eight petalled lotus.

From this I arose as a crystal place complete with jewels and ornaments.

Behind me was a Sun disk, with in me as the crystal place the entire Universe.

As awareness relaxed into the Sun disk I prayed, Om Mani Padme Hum Hri.

Then realized the light of awareness as the entire Universe arose as Love and Compassion.

Offerings naturally arose for all sentient beings as vast as space within crystal awareness.

Om Argham Ah Hum – Water as the base for all life on the Lotus planet emerging from the Sea with crystal clarity.

Om Padyam Ah Hum – Water for the feet to honor that which has arisen from the Sea and begun to walk on the path to transcendence.

Om Pupe Ah Hum – Lotus flower petals to making the perfect pathe appeaer throughout the Universe.

Om Duphe Ah Hum – Incense to honor the fire of intent joined with the awareness of impermanence to hurry one through the eight worldly passions.

Om Aloke Ah Hum – Light to show the way on the path of ignorance which is the initial stage of self awakening awareness coming to fruition.

Oh Gandhe Ah Hum – Scented oil offering the fragrent blessings the 16 Wisdom Goddesses as one nears the deep absorption in the way things abide.

Om Newdhie Ah Hum – Nectar is the profound view of all things perfectly pure in the crystal palace of Chenrezig.

Om Shapta Ah Hum – The sweet joyous melodious sounds of the deity arising as the temple of spontaneous realization through out the entirety of space.

Om Mani Padme Hum Hri

Buddha is Buddha

Clear light is clear light as Dharmakaya.

Dharma palace arises from enlightened intent as Samboghakaya.

Rainbow expanse is Nirmanakaya of all appearance as the Sangha.

Rupakaya is all beings as the object of Bodhicitta.

Written New Years Day 2010 at Garchen Institute.

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