Ambrosia

Ambrosia
Food of gods
The perfume
Of the divine
Immortality
In the midst
Life and love
Impermanence
Ever in this world
Comings going
Continually
Here now
Woke up
Alive again
This morning
Who knows
If still also
Tomorrow
When time
Then it will
Be as it is
Always
Harmony
Of existence
Called Dharma
My teacher
In everyone
And all.

“Bodhicitta contemplation” — ༀ་ཨཱཿ་ཧཱུྃ – Ōṃ āḥ hūṃ – again

Ambrosia, the elixir of life, and impermanence

I have found a Dharma like ambrosia
Deep, peaceful, simple, uncompounded, radiant.
If I explain it no-one will understand,
So I shall stay here silent in the forest.

Impermanence is everywhere, yet I still think things will last.
I have reached the gates of old age, yet I still pretend I am young.
Bless me and misguided beings like me,
That we may truly understand impermanence.

— Words of my perfect teacher by Patrul Rinpoche, translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, pp. 27 & 59

One of the last roses of the year