Ours is joy

Ours is the world, we have no fear

Ours is heaven, we have no destination

Ours is the whole, where are we lost?

Ours is joy

Revised Kagyu Prayer

The Kagyu Prayer

Great Vajradhara, Tilo, Naro,

Marpa, Mila, Lord of Dharma Gampopa,

Dusum Chenpa, totally aware Karmapa,

Holders of the four great and lesser lineages,

Masters of the profound path of Mahamudra,

Incomparable protectors of beings, the Dakpo Kagyu,

I supplicate you, the Kagyu Gurus, I hold your lineage,

Grange the grace of complete freedom

The habitual ways are sour and bitter

We see they are fruit of their seed

They drive us into prayer and meditation,

and escape from ease and money and power and place

Your generosity is our door to prayer and mediation

Your holy grace opens those instructions

We are led by you into freedom

May we return a shadow of your grace and generosity

We rest all movement of mind in meditation

Fresh and open, without work

No beginning, no end, nothing to change

Grant us now this grace of no effort

Our thoughts arise with the play of life,

Nothing in themselves, arising as the full display

Heaven and Earth are dissolved in meditation

leaving us to know the grace of union and freedom

                                                                                    Revised Kagyu Prayer 11.25.2011

I came to the end of thinking finally

I came to the edge of thinking, finally
to save my sould from ever wandering in a circle

I looked outside the window of my cave
and saw there was an outside
but no inside
A dark inside, but no outside
And nothing containing it all

The edge was the middle
The emptiness was the support
The giving up was the getting
and the thoughts were there,
but not the thinking

There is no leap, for there is no leaper
There is only the falling toward the no-ground
(or away from it)

Expanding now with the time since the beginningless
Thrust with the rocks of space ever further toward
the non-boundary

And the pen and the puzzle here
I the puzzle looking up at the pen

The emptiness is empty, an instruction

The emptiness is empty, an instruction 

The emptiness is empty
The listening is compassion and longing
The relaxation is trust and equanimity
The breathing is the endless arising
The heart of awakening mind is here and now
It is all that is, it is complete,

simple beyond comparison

The emptiness is empty

The emptiness is empty
The listening is compassion and longing
The relaxation is trust and equanimity
The breathing is the endless arising
The heart of awakening mind is here and now
It is all that is,
and it is complete and simple beyond comparison

The breath of now sweeps out the mind

The breath of now
sweeps out the mind
its clutter scattered
into its confusion
as dust into the sun
to dance in eerie clarity

The sound of here
makes echoes of the past
and shadows of the future
and stills this pen
to scratch to more
for we are...