Longevity Chant for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

Concise longevity song for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

composed by Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche

Om svasti
Ocean conquerers, Triple Jewels and the Triple Roots,
Bless the great Dharma Sun for the Kagyu and the Nyingma lines,
May your threefold secrets be forever firm,
To fulfill every wish for the teachings and the beings' well.

Extensive longevity song for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

composed by Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche

Om svasti
Timeless wakefulness of changeless greatest ease,
Fully manifest graceful form of deathless vajra youth,
Noble Tara, let your wishfulfilling wheel,
Shower here constantly vast and splendid immortality.

Through lord Lokeshvara, the glorious Karmapa's
Wondrous wishing-force, like a forest stream of stable mind,
Mighty wishgranting tree, beautifying others' aims,
Matchless buddha son, may your life-force be forever firm.

Lotus ponds of insights and words in sutras and tantras
Blossom through the light of your teachings and accomplishments.
Secret and sublime, Dharma Sun of true intent,
Slaying darkness of wrong views, may your life-force be forever firm.

Your stream of deeds leads to freedom everyone you meet.
Never it ends, touching each and every land on Earth.
For all beings and all teachings, without partiality,
Our sublime guardian, may your life-force be forever firm.

Noble guide, may you live for hundred sets of cosmic time,
Sounding Dharma tones of true intent to fill the world,
Like the fruits in autumn, let the Practice Lineage bloom,
So the good Golden Age blossoms with auspiciousness.

Re-translated to be sung with an original tune for longevity by Erik Pema Kunsang, Amber Palace, 2014.

The video can also be found on vajrasound.com/

Bardo Song of Reminding Oneself

Bardo Song of Reminding Oneself

from the Secret Dakini Training Mother Tantra
of the Great Perfection

Ema!

Now that while the bardo of this lifetime is unfolding,

I will not be lazy since there is no time to waste.

Enter nondistraction’s path of hearing, thinking, training,

While it is just now I have the precious human form.

Since this free and favored form ought to have real meaning,

Emotion and samsara shall no longer hold the reign.

Ema!

Now that while the bardo of the dreamstate is unfolding,

I will not sleep like a corpse, so careless, ignorant.

Knowing everything is self-display, with recognition,

Capture dreams, conjure, transform, train lucid wakefulness.

Instead of lying fast asleep like animals are sleeping,

I will use the Dharma just as in the waking state.

Ema!

Now that while the meditation bardo is unfolding,

I will set aside every deluded wandering.

Free of clinging, settled within boundless nondistraction,

I’ll be stable in completion and development.

As I’m yielding projects to the single-minded training,

Delusion and unknowing shall no longer hold the reign.

Ema!

Now that while the bardo of the death-state is unfolding,

I will cast away attachment, clinging to all things.

Enter undistractedly the state of lucid teachings,

Suspending as a vast expanse this nonarising mind.

Leaving this material form, my mortal human body,

I will see it as illusion and impermanent.

Ema!

Now that while the bardo of dharmata is unfolding,

I will hold no fear or dread or panic for it all.

Recognizing everything to be the bardo’s nature,

Now the time has come for mastering the vital point.

Colors, sounds and rays shine forth, self-radiance of knowing,

May I never fear the peaceful-wrathful self-display.

Ema!

Now that while the bardo of becoming is unfolding,

I will keep the lasting goal one-pointedly in mind.

Reconnecting firmly with the flow of noble action,

I will shut the womb-doors and remember to turn back.

Since this is the time for fortitude and pure perception,

I will shun wrong views and train the guru’s union-form.

If I keep this senseless mind that never thinks of dying,

And continue striving for the pointless aims of life,

Won’t I be deluded when I leave here empty handed?

Since I know the sacred Dharma is just what I need,

Shouldn’t I be living by the Dharma right this moment,

Giving up activities that are just for this life?

These are the instructions which the gracious guru told me.

If I do not keep the guru’s teachings in my heart,

How can this be other than myself fooling myself?

Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang with music by Tara Trinley Wangmo, Amber Palace, 2014.
Performed by Sascha Alexandra Sellberg & Rodrigo Reijers.

For guitar:

Am

Ema!

Am                     F                     G             F    

Now that while the bardo of this lifetime is unfolding,

Am              F                          G             Am

I will not be lazy since there is no time to waste.

Am                     F                     G                    F   

Enter nondistraction’s path of hearing, thinking, training,

Am                     F                       G                Am

While it is just now I have the precious human form.

Dm                           Am               G                        Am

Since this free and favored form ought to have real meaning,

Dm                   Am                    G               Am

Emotion and samsara shall no longer hold the reign.