Douglas Penick Poems

SO Noble lords and ladies, brave warriors,
Know me as I am, the one who has been foretold.
It has been written in prophecies, and you know it in your hearts:
I am Gesar, King of Ling,
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Mother, I have never known the world to be impure,
So I have never had an enemy. Mother, because there has never been an enemy,
My view is unmistaken.
Mother, I have always cherished others' happiness before my own,
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INVOCATION CALLING ON GESAR KING OF LING

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Now when the virtues of the human realm
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SONGS OF ABANDONMENT

(Gesar is lost in a blizzard and he sings this :)
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The Roaring Laughter of the Innate which Deceives and Paralyzes All Self Delusion; an invocation to Vajrasadhu, the Supreme Warrior Protector of the Pure Dharma

Great Vajrasadhu, Illusion King
Lord of the Palace of the Six Realms of Being,
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From the unmoving and undivided brilliance of simplicity itself,
At the zero point of life and death,
You are the clarity of fury, the vibrance of passion,
The wisdom of alternation.
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On this great wind of sorrow and longing
We rise up.
On this great wind of love and longing,
The all-seeing Red Garuda spontaneously takes form
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Now, Gesar, Hero of a thousand battles,
Conqueror of a thousand kinds of corruption,
Healer of a thousand kinds of poisonous disease,
Now you cannot turn back.
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In midwinter, late on a glittering frozen starlit night, when the new crescent moon has just returned to the sky, and Gesar sleeps dreamlessly in his palace bedroom, the goddess Manene comes to him. She descends across a bridge of faint moonlight, arching down from the lower point of the crescent moon directly into his heart. There she takes her place and sings to him:

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'Listen,
The melody of the sword of prajna
Calls forth time in
The appearance of reality;
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