My Late Fall Morning Wishes

For Choetsow in Cambridge MA

By Tt

11-16-19

At Virginia home

I lit a candle, a remover of the darkness,

It illuminates my heart and expanded the spectrum of the universe,

In which I do make my very humble living!

I burned the sacred twigs from the Sheegua tree in Tibet,

It instantly dispelled the limitation that locks me behind the bar of my physical body.

I followed the blue smoke that is crawling up and spreads far...

Suddenly, I found I myself deeply drowned into the smoke's self-so nature

I talked to myself, I wish it is me or I am it.

l welcomed the sacred smells enthusiastically broke out from the Sheegua tree twigs and

I beseech her to overtake my entire being in the cosmos

So that she can mercilessly smash my ego and its propensities.

I wish I am that of heavenly candle light,

Illuminating

Quiet

Receptive, yet immensely powerful!

I wish I am that of holy smoke,

Free

Playful

Penetrative, yet inconceivably tender!

I wish I am that of sacred smell,

Reaches all,

Embraces all and transforms all

With my un-manifested, primordial wisdom and compassion!

May all beings be free from the ego, the creator of all the sufferings!

Mahasattva