Tibetan Buddhist Altar » Poetry

Dreams

Jetsunma — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:20:21 +0000

How I wish there was something to say

To nuture the dreams we have today

To seek the path and find a way

To hold you close, to sway,

To music only we can hear- Sacrament of joy spoken to my ear- I love you;

I love you;

ah, my Dear What secret whisper brought you here!

I love you.

So very clear I miss you can you not hear My sighs?

My light?

Floating down the river night

Soon be gone from your sight.

Love you.

Vajra Kiss

Jetsunma — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:34:03 +0000

Good night, sweet dreams! May Dakinis hold your hearts and grant their BLISS! The Vajra KISS. Can you drink the poison too? I know YOU DO!

You might as well agree to this; That you would sell your soul for bliss. Even I can answer this; There is no soul, there is no goal.

Even Bliss is this; emptiness so profound. The vibe of Light cannot be found! So forgive, wake up dispel. There is depth to this well.

In the end..I am your friend. Hallelujah and AMEN

In a Dream

Jetsunma — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:30:23 +0000

In a dream I remember that I forgot what I remembered

I knew that I knew it was a dream.

I know I can stand still, in full presence and awaken

How odd that our uncontrived Primordial Nature dances with SO MANY mirrors, all sizes and shapes.

Splendid and devastating!

OM MANI PEDME HUNG

You Are

Jetsunma — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:25:29 +0000

You are the Light of my life

The beat of my heart

The breath of my body

The song of my speech

The rapture of my mind I love you.

You are the core of my Samaya

The truth of my accomplishment

The nectar of my mind

The warrior of my method

The bearer of my LOVE

You are my blazing one

You are beloved Sun

You are a candle light

To warm me through the night

You are my feast, my Fire

You are my SHINING ONE

You make me come undone

You dance within my sight

You make me feel it right

You make me see your face

I see it when you move about

I’ll be your friend I’ll shout you out!

I’ll get you there

If you can go.

Star Child

Jetsunma — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:30:46 +0000

Bright, shining

Star child

Tripping, dancing

In the light

Who are you?

I am

The lover; the beloved.

The father and the child.

The voice and the song.

The kingdom is mine!

Playfully, joyfully fathered by

All that is

I am born

Into glory!

I am glory!

Born to soar,

I hold in my hand

The seed and the fruit of forever

What a joy to cherish

This moment.

Forever-now.

To see in myself

The promise.

The song of love, sung

By me, for me.

Born in light

I am light;

Dazzling!

Pure, perfect crystalline

Light.

Becoming, multiplying, forever.

I am bathed

In exquisite joy –

Always.

One with Infinity

Star child!

By Alyce Mulloy

In Honor of Her Noble Life

anisonam — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:07:39 +0000

Thubten Palchen 9/13/1929 - 2:30am 1/8/2010

Thubten Palchen 9/13/1929 – 2:30am 1/8/2010

The last poem Palchen wrote:

Golden warmth
Crimson heart

Within my chalice

I lie wrapped in

Guru and consort

My home

Within my bodyhome

Impermanent

No ground but love

by Thubten Palchen

Golden Vase of Wisdom

Holly — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:38:56 +0000

A poem by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

From the ordinary clay of samsara,

brilliant jewels of pure intention arise

Qualities are stable and virtuous,

as those things to be accepted or rejected are defined.

Slowly, with effort and renunciation,

the beautiful golden vase of wisdom and knowledge arises.

A new heart filled with comfort and joy is realized.

Here is a teaching you did not ask for

Holly — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:59:30 +0000

A teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Try to believe in the Love….that the Love that exists is

Absolute. It never varies, it is unchanging. You did nothing

to deserve it and you cannot destroy it. It is your belief in the

Love, your acceptance of it, this changes from moment to

moment, circumstance to circumstance, tossed about on the

waves of your emotions.

Let your heart fall deeper under the surface to where the

waves seem very far away. There you will find it, and me.

Make a samaya now to go deeper every day, to diligently

travel to that calm place where the sands do not shift at all.

You never asked for this! Only for what is temporary,

turbulent, based on a self that you have only imagined. Learn

to ask for what is true. That you will be answered is certain

because the answer is already accomplished.

Beneath the waves it is already there.

I am with you again, still, always.

I do love you.

Written as a birthday gift for a student September 20, 1986 in Poolesville MD

Shining Lake of Crystal Tears

Jetsunma — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:16:31 +0000

Arya Tara, Noble One

We bow down to your Lotus Feet

And beg you to remain enthroned

On the Lotus Throne within our hearts

We, your daughters and sons

Offer you the essence of whatever purity we may possess in the three times

Please accept the nectar of our pitiful practice

Please bless the potential of all our hopes and aspirations

And guide our lips and blind eyes

To suckle at the breast of the Sublime Bodhichitta

Mother Tara, protect us, now and at the time of our death.

Sooth and cleanse our minds of the sickness and fever of worthless distraction.

Hear us, Holy One, even though our very voices are tainted

With fear and slothfulness, weakened by Samsara’s spell.

Oh Mother, when we have caused you sorrow

How will you then appear for us in Nirmanakaya form

Through endless aeons for our sake –

How, Mother, will this occur

When our hearts and minds turn inward

With darkness and lack of caring for the suffering of others?

Oh Mother Tara, Holy One, Perfect One

We are lost.

Now more than ever darkness comes

And we are overcome with our weakness and poor view.

Yet you remain for us

Blessed Mother, Holy One, this very day

We make our hearts and minds your home

We beg you to come in glory

And to remain with us

With your Supreme Beauty, Sublime Power and Faultless Light

Until we are inseparable

And Samsara is emptied

Colophon: Written by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, August 24^th, 2004 Sedona, Arizona, when one of Tara’s daughters herself had fallen under Samsara’s dark spell

Sang Wisdom

Jetsunma — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:57:25 +0000

Sang Wisdom to the Fire, “Warm me.” And he replied, “Breathe, Beloved,” for he knew her breath was fire too. So she did, and the cycle was complete.

Cried Wisdom to the fire, “Carry me.” And he replied, “Sing, Beloved!” For he knew that the sound of ecstasy was a song he had heard and never forgotten, once, and very soon again. So she did. And the nectar of love filled the worlds.

Called Wisdom to the fire, “I cannot see you! Come to me!” And he replied, “Close your eyes, Beloved,” for he knew that Wisdom is innocent of time and space. So she did, and she remembered.

Thus the magical empowerment of the Divine Consorts was born again, and filled the worlds.

The sweetness tasted again of what has always been- ONE.

Written by JAL Nov 1996

May blessings prevail!