Invocation Of Tapihritsa
composed and sung by Nangzher Lopo to his teacher, Tapihritsa.
E MA HO! How wonderful!
You are the manifestation of Kuntu Zangpo, the primordial base.
Your body appears like a white luminous crystal, clear and without impurities, radiating light in the ten directions.
You are naked, without ornaments, signifying the innermost essence, the primordial state.
Endowed with the two-fold wisdom of emptiness and skillful means, with compassion you contemplate the benefit of beings.
You embody Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, supreme among the teachings, the essence of the awareness of the realized ones, the peak of the way of realization, the heart of the tantras, of the essential scriptures, and of the secret instructions,
You point out the natural state, the base from which delusion, which is samsara, and liberation, which is nirvana, arise; whereupon as sounds, lights, and rays, all the defects and virtues are self-clear.
Having completely dispelled the darkness of the minds of beings, you enable us to experience the base as empty and rootless, and simultaneously realize all stages of the path.
Experiences and realization become manifest, and samsara and nirvana liberate within one's natural mind.
In that vastness, the three dimensions, which are the fruit, are arrayed.
With one-pointed devotion I pray to you, Tapihritsa, protector of beings, grant the blessings of bestowing the empowerment upon me and other beings.
May the external, internal, and secret obstacles be pacified, and may the error of self-grasping, which is ignorance, be liberated.
Having recognized self-awareness, may the view and the conduct be fully realized.
Please bestow upon me, at this very moment, the great meaning beyond intellect of the primordial base, empty and rootless.
To you, Tapihritsa, noble protector of beings, I pray:
May the beings of the six realms be protected by your compassion.
And may my mind be liberated.
