|
Poetry
Chaikhana
|
|
|
|
About Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol)Timeline (1781 - 1851) |
![Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol), Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol) poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Tibetan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry](images/ShabkarRa_sm.jpg) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
English version by Original Language |
All sounds are the resonance of voidness
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
All sounds are the resonance of voidness
Thoughts are freed just as they arise. At death the net of the body is at last torn apart Taking down the boundaries of one's retreat.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This poem is a delightful vision of one profoundly at peace with the notion of death: The ensnaring "net" of the body is "torn apart" in an act of liberation of the self, not its loss. Death is "breaking down the boundaries" of our "retreat" hut. Death, in other words, frees us from the separation that is apparent in material embodiment and the sense of isolation that tends to emerge in the mind as a result of identification with the body.
Shabkar, always the wanderer, is saying that, at the endpoint of life our retreat is accomplished and the isolation created by the body is no longer necessary... We are now free to continue our journey through vastness.
|
|
| Please support the Poetry Chaikhana, as well as the authors and publishers of sacred poetry, by purchasing some of the recommended books through the links on this site. Thank you! |
Ivan
M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2008 by Ivan M. Granger.
All other material is copyrighted by the respective authors, translators and/or
publishers.
