Manene's Song To Her Brother, Gesar Poem by Douglas Penick

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.

Now the accomplishments, realizations and victories,
Which you called your life are behind you.

Now the living heart of compassion
Draws you out and onward.

To save a single being,
You will experience the loss of death,
Your body and mind dissolve.

To save a single being,
You will go beyond your identity,
Your body, your understanding, your life.

You will experience again the painful uncertainty of birth,
As your mind and body dissolve
And form a being you have never known.

The awakened state cannot be contained in body or word or thought.
It is continually renewed in the endless cycles of birth and death.
The transitions of the bardos are the path of wakefulness.

As all life is sustained by other,
Only complete compassion
Can sustain you.
This is the only ground.

Primordial compassion is unfabricated awareness.
Samaya.

Non-Dual compassion is unchanging bliss.
Samaya.

Unceasing compassion is the all protecting armor of love.
Samaya.

Unconditional confidence is the radiance of compassion.
Samaya.

This is the feast of phenomenal existence.
Samaya.

SAMAYA JA