A Spontaneous Lightning Song About Intuition

by Longchenpa

Namo gurubhya. I bow to the usher.

The true psychedelic reality realized has the vastness of an ocean,

The changeless field of space, akin to a womb,
With no center or edge, a pervasive brilliance,
Beyond any notional stance.

Whatever alights, being self-illuminated, is the dimension of intuitive

awareness.
Appearances are vacuous, without basis, rootless.
Within the transparency of what appears without obstruction,
Objectification of what appears is severed.

Appearances are luminous.

What arises is unbiased, being the vacuous dimension.
One’s little world, having no awareness of its own, has neither ground nor
source.
Ecstatic awareness that liberates whatever appears is reliably pervasive.

Subject-object seizures, being timelessly vacuous, are rootless.

Self-refreshing prismatic awareness is the truly psychedelic dimension of
reality.
Subject-object seizures, being without bias, are pure light the sky.
In the true homeland, free of assertions, what’s raw is left as is.
The great perfection is free of mentation.
The timelessly pure, self-refreshing ground
Goes nowhere, is forever the path, close by.
Without being achieved, you connect with spontaneity.

The clear light is perfect, the true homeland.

The pervasive brilliance of true psychedelic reality is a primordial vastness.
The meaning of the great perfection of dystopia and release
Is a song that transcends causes and effects, efforts and achievements.

[Colophon]
Channeled by the amazing professor Longchenpa, the “Spontaneous
Lightning Song About Intuition” was completed by the professor of the
spectacular vastness, the naturalist of the superlative vehicle, at the
hermitage Spontaneous Zone. Oh Joy.
 [Translation Colophon]

Text pp. 292.6 – 393.4 from the Spontaneous Diamond Songs of Longchenpa (rdo
rje’i glu), as contained in gsung thor bu. As an offering dedicated to Tarthang
Tulku Rinpoche’s long life, to benefit all beings, translated by Merrill Peterson at
the Zone in Synsiddhi, in the Silver State, that like a looking glass mirrors
everything flawlessly, including itself, within the Beautiful Country.
Completed on February 28, 2017, during the first day of the Firebird Girl’s Year.