Words Below: The great master of the Nyingma lineage Thinley Norbu Rinpoche wrote many wondrous books in English such as Magic Dance and White Sail. His command of the language was superb and he expressed his profound realization in poetic yet precise fashion. All of his books are a deep and abiding introduction to Vajrayana's Tantric and Dzogchen systems in accord with the Nyingma lineage. Words: As in a dream, when cuckoos start to sing, it is spring. When I awoke on the first spring day, I remembered my dream that when the secse object meets the sense, that is the echo. It is so magical, it is so wondrous that I dreamed the dream that echoed the substanceless essence of the substanceless dream. Untouchable dream. Uncatchable echo. O Lord Buddha, through your blessing did you dream for me to show that all phenomena are illusory like a dream and cannot be caught? In summertime, when peacocks' tails make parasols, I met a ce- lestial dakini without invitation in my dream. It is so magical, it is so wondrous, this meeting, as in a dream. In autumntime, when the meadow dew, like tears, meets the moonbeams' wistful love, I watched the falling leaves and remem- bered my dream that when the sense object meets the sense, that is the echo. It is so magical, it is so wondrous, this meeting, as in a dream. In wintertime, when the wind thief's whispered lament meets the snow-faced earth holder of wealth, my mind grew weary. It is so magical, it is so wondrous, this meeting, as in a dream.

• published: 06 Sep 2013
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