[From a collection of songs translated by Yeshe Gyamtso and published by KTD Publications (2007) as the Treasury of Eloquence: The Songs of Barway Dorje. Posted with permission. Copyright 2007 Karma Triyana Dharmachakra & Peter O’Hearn. All Rights Reserved.]
A Vajra Song of Awareness-Emptiness:
A Prayer to the Great Revealer of Treasure, the Dharma King
Urgyen Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, Indivisible from the Trikaya Guru
E MA HO!
West of numberless worlds
Is pure Akanishtha, the Densely Arrayed.
In that realm endowed with five perfections
Is Samantabhadra, the protector Changeless Light.
He is none other than my guru’s mind.
I pray to my guru, the dharmakaya.
Pacify my mind’s thoughts of the five poisons.
Grant your blessing that my mind go to the dharma.
Far above us in this world,
In the renowned three lands of the gods,
Is the sambhogakaya teacher Vajrasattva.
He is none other than my guru’s speech.
I pray to my guru, the sambhogakaya.
Purify the stains of my speech, channels, and winds.
Grant your blessing that I accomplish sound-emptiness speech.
In the south of India,
On the peak of Mount Malaya,
Is the nirmanakaya vidyadhara Vajradharma. Hear me!
You are none other than my guru’s body.
I pray to my guru, the nirmanakaya.
Free me from my body’s solid aggregates.
Grant your blessing that appearances arise as deities’ bodies.
In various realms where beings are tamed
And in the cities of celestial realms
Are the five excellent vidyadharas.2
They are the treasury of all my guru’s qualities.
I pray to my kind guru.
Purify my two veils and habits.
Grant your blessing that I realize luminous wisdom.
West of Jambudvipa,
In the glorious land of Chamaradvipa,
Is Padmakara, whose actions tame beings.
He is none other than my guru’s actions.
I pray from my heart to the protector of beings.
Pacify the projections of our decadence.
Grant your blessing that the world be happy.
In the pure realm of the dharmadhatu,
In the palace of appearances’ great array,
Is my guru of threefold kindness.
Tame my calloused heart.
Grant your blessing that my thoughts accord with dharma.
In the sky of the view beyond intellect
Dawn the sun and moon of luminous meditation.
The peerless garuda of conduct soars.
The knots of hope and fear about the fruition are untied.
For one’s own good one is liberated as the jewel of dharmakaya.
From it come plentiful rupakayas for the good of others.
May I quickly accomplish this perfect fruition, the two bodies,
Glorious Samantabhadra.
This was the spontaneous prayer of the vidyadhara Dechen Barway
Dorje, a disciple of the treasure-revealer Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa.
May it bring virtue!
