Heart Spoon Encouragement Through Recollecting impermanence
Ah, the hurt!
Kind Lama, look to this pitiful one.
How i behave and how I've cheated my entire Life.
Please, look upon this mindless one with compassion.
The essential advise to give yourself - Heart-Spoon
Keep it deep within your heart.
Don't be distracted; don't be distracted!
Reflect upon the state of your life from the essential drop at your heart.
Since beginning less cyclic existence, which hasn't ended up to now,
Though you've experienced countless cycles of rebirths-
just so many variations on happiness and pain
You've not slighted of benefit from them.
And though at present you've attained leisure and fortune so difficult to find,
Always till now, they've finished and been lost, have been empty and without meaning.
Now, if you care about yourself,
The time has come to practice the essence of future happiness virtuous actions
You appear so capable, smart, and clever, but you're a fool
As long as you cling to the child's play of appearance of this life
Suddenly you're overwhelmed by the fearful Lord of Death
And, without hope or means to endure, there's nothing you can do.
This is going to happen to you!
Because you think, "I'm not going to die for some time, I'm not going to die for some time,"
While you're distracted by he never -ending activities of this life,
Suddenly the fearful Lord of Death arrives,
Announcing it's time to die."
This is going to happen to you!
Though you make arrangements, saying, "tomorrow" and "tomorrow,"
Just then, suddenly you have to go.
This is going to happen to you
And without choice, leaving behind in disarray
Your left-off work, left food and drink, you have to depart.
This is going to happen to you!
There's no time other than today to spread (your bedding) and go off to sleep;
Upon your last bed you fall like a tree,
And others, unable to turn you with their (lily) soft hands
Tug at your clothes and blanket.
this is going to happen to you.
Even if you completely wrap (your body) in last under and outer clothes,
Still you have no freedom to wear them other than just today,
And when (that body) becomes as rigid as earth and stone,
You behold for the first time your own corpse.
This is going to happen to you.
Though you struggle to speak your last words,
Your will and expressions of sorrow,
Pitifully your tongue dried up, and you can't make yourself clear
An intense sadness overwhelms you
This is going to happen to you!
Though others put your final food, holy substances and relics
With a trickle water into your mouth
This is going to happen to you
Though surrounded by circle of close relatives, heart friends and those near to your heart,
And even though they're loving and distressed at the ending of your being together,
While crying and clinging
Just then, you have to separate forever
This is going to happen to you!
Though you (experience) horrific hallucinations like a turbulence of waves
And are overcome by unbearable, excruciating pain,
Pitiful though you may be, there's nothing to be done;
The appearance of this life are setting (like the sun)
This is going to happen to you!
Though with unbearable compassion your lama and Vajra-friends
Plead in your ear for a critical virtuous thoughts to arise,
And even though they do so with loving minds,
There's no hope; it's unthinkable.
This is going to happen to you!
With an (expelled rasping) sound, "sor...sor"(at the time of death)
The movement of your breathe builds faster and faster,
Then breaks like the string of a violin
And the end of your life has come to its close.
This is going to happen to you
There'll come a time when your cherish and sadly lost lovely body
Is called" corpse" -disgusting and rotten,
And a time when your body, which can't bear even the rough bedding and mattress
Is laid out on bare ground.
This is going to happen to you!
There'll come a time when your body , which can't bear the thorn,
Is chopped to pieces and (from the bone) its flesh is torn,
Is devoured by birds and dogs till nothing left
This is going to happen to you!
Though you (go to so much trouble blowing) "pur...pur" in dressing your body i the finest of clothes
There'll come a time when that body is placed within a burning house,
And your body, which can't tolerate even the fire of (a glowing stick of) incense,
Must be burned in the midst of a fiery conflagration.
This is going to happen to you!
There'll come a time of the announcing, " the deceased, ____, him or herself,"
At the beginning and end of your sweet name.
This is going to happen to you!
And a time when the area is filled with sobbing sounds
Of your affectionate, close companions and circle of servants.
This is going to happen to you!
There'll come a time when your clothes, hats, possessions, and livestock will be divided up
With nothing left in the four directions and corners,
And there'll come a time when in total despair, alone,
You reach the passage to the intermediate state,
This is going to happen to you!
The terror of the four fearful enemies descending upon you your are going to come:
The appearance of being trapped under a mountain of packed rock and rubble
And buried beneath a furious avalanche of earth-what to do?
The appearance of being set adrift on the surface of a vast sea
And carried away by violent, swirling waves-what to do The experience of your heart and ears beng split open
By the sizzling and crackling sounds of a fiery conflagration - what to do?
The fearful experience of being enveloped and swept away
By the swirling dark wind of the end of an eon-what to do
When you're driven by the powerful red winds of karma
And swallowed up by a terrifying darkness-what to do?
When you're bound with lasso by the messenger of Yama?
And, in total despair, are led away-what to do?
When you're tortured in so many ways
By ox-end by scorpion-headed karmic agents- what to do
When you're before the Yama king, the Lord of Death,
As weighs up the whites and blacks - your virtuous and non-virtuous actions-what to do?
When Yama exposes your lie of having spent
Your human life in attachment, hatred and deceit-what to do?
When Yama's court the punishment that is the ripening effect
Of your negative actions (is meted out) - what to do?
When your naked body is stretched out on the glowing red-hot iron ground in the fires of hell-what to do?
Though your body is cut to pieces by a rain if weapons,
still you must experience it without dying-what to do?
Thoguh you are cooked in molten iron until your flesh falls away and your bones disintegrate
Still you must experience it without dying-what to do?
Though your body and fire burn inseparably, still you must experience without dying-what to do?
When your body is pierced by freezing cold wind
And cracks into hundred thousand pieces-what to do
Having fallen into the miserable state of a hungry ghost with its hunger and thirst
You have to starve for many years-what to do?
When you've become one of those stupid, dump, unfortunate animals
that eat each other alive-what to do?
When the unbearable sufferings of the evil-gone realms
have actually befallen you - what to do?
Now! Don't be distracted! (With the sounds of hurrying)
"la...ur...la..ur,"
Right this moment is the time to steel your will.
It's not only time-it's almost too late.
Right now! Right Now! "La...ur...La...ur...," (apply yourself with) great force
Holy precept of the Lama, kind father;
Heart of the authoritative scriptures of the Victorious Losang;
Practice of te pure path of the complete sutra and tantra;
It's time to place real experience upon your mindstream.
Who's the father Yama, the Lord of Death,
Or you in your practice of realizing the essence of your eternal dream-
The welfare of both yourself and others -as much as you can each day?
Unifying the three doors (of your body, speech, and mind)
out the whole of your effort into your practice
