WHAT IN CREATION

E-MAHO

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Updated 09 Apr 2002

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WHAT IN CREATION

WHAT TARA TOLD ME

" Psst! Come on! Wake up! "
Rubbing sleep from my eyes,
I looked up.
It was Tara,
in all her shimmery,
blue-green radiant beauty.

"Come on! Wake up! "
Her eyes twinkled mischievously
from the millions of galaxies
whirling within them
as she looked through me.

"I've had my eye on you
and the time is ripe!
Unlock the Dharma Gate," she said.

Before my ego could round up
all the usual thoughts
of self pity and unworthiness,
she whipped out the stem of her blue lotus
and sucked them clean away,
like a cosmic Hoover vacuum cleaner.
The lotus got bluer.
"Unlock the Dharma Gate," she said.

"Look deep within your heart.
The secret code is resting there.
Unlock the Dharma Gate," she said.

"Enter effortlessly,
arising as Me in the fourth time,
and realize in this past / present / future
transcendent moment of Now,
how every experience
in this and all other lifetimes
even all those missteps, wrong turns and tears -
how everything is the perfect step
on the path that leads you
to this very moment."
"Unlock the Dharma Gate," she said.

And I...
well...
I followed her instructions.
My body, speech and mind
became suddenly still,
stiller than the inside
of a granite mountain.

I saw that secret code
and my heart blazed with devotion,
exploding the code
into a million pieces
that fell together
into the completed pattern.

Spontaneously,
the mandala of awakening springs forth,
shattering the illusory Dharma Gate
between the two realities.
Figure becomes ground,
ground becomes figure.
Time dilates, contracts and pops!

I am Tara,
arising effortlessly,
as all the unseen beings,
buddhas and bodhisattvas
of the three times
shower blessings and sacred mantras.

Me and Tara,
we dance across the night sky,
two as one,
dissolving completely
into peals of laughter,
the mantra of mountain wind
howling through the peaks.

There is a reason
I am whispering this
into your ear as you lay dreaming.

I've had my eye on you
and the time is ripe.
Come on! Wake Up!
Unlock the Dharma Gate!

—Synthia Smith

E-maho apologizes for the copyright
omission in the previous posting.

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A WORD ON SUBMISSIONS

All you vajra-song makers out there, whether prose or poetry or cartoon is your thing, if you create in the spirit of E-maho, we'd like to see your work. Keep it like the dharma is—upbeat, radiant with warmth and laughter, as if you were doing it for Maitreya, which indeed you are. Maitreya is the buddha of the future, expected to appear in around 30,000 years. He is the embodiment of all-encompassing love. His realm is called "the joyful." His name literally means "the loving one."

In submitting your material, you grant to the Dzogchen Foundation the right to publish this material on the DZF web site, at the discretion of the editors. Normal editorial guidelines will apply. If a submission is used, revisions, usually minor, may be made to the text. Graphics may be combined with your article or poem to enhance it. We ask you to keep a copy of your work, so that material does not have to be returned to you.

Please send submissions to: emaho@dzogchen.org within your e-mail itself. Please do not attach submissions as Word documents or html files.

Specifically, we're looking for contributions for HEY! IT'S HAPPENING and WHAT IN CREATION. In HEY! IT'S HAPPENING, you'd share with other sangha members an actual experience that came out of your practice, or perhaps led into it. HEY! lets us see your practice manifesting uniquely in your daily life. WHAT IN CREATION might be a poem or a cartoon, but could also be a short prose piece, showing your understanding of or your delight in the dharma. RETREAT BEAT is the other feature open to contributors, and is reserved for people's experiences at Dzogchen Center retreats. Finally, Dzogchen Center asks you, whether you do it by meditation or creation, to empower E-maho and the wider sangha through your practice, in a very clear and unfailingly compassionate way.

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CONTENTS

WHAT IN CREATION

WHAT TARA TOLD ME

E-maho apologizes for the copyright omission in the previous posting.

A WORD ON SUBMISSIONS

E-maho apologizes for the copyright
omission in the previous posting.