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    This poem describes a vision of joining a circle dance with mystical female figures called dakinis on a beautiful snow-peaked mountain surrounded by clouds. The poet feels intoxicated by their dance of life, death, sickness, and sees them holding musical instruments and elements. He surrenders to the dance and joins their circle, finding acceptance in their all-powerful, joyous mandala. The poem expresses having found unwavering conviction that love is universal through this experience of dancing with the dakinis.

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    This poem describes a vision of joining a circle dance with mystical female figures called dakinis on a beautiful snow-peaked mountain surrounded by clouds. The poet feels intoxicated by their dance of life, death, sickness, and sees them holding musical instruments and elements. He surrenders to the dance and joins their circle, finding acceptance in their all-powerful, joyous mandala. The poem expresses having found unwavering conviction that love is universal through this experience of dancing with the dakinis.

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    This poem describes a vision of joining a circle dance with mystical female figures called dakinis on a beautiful snow-peaked mountain surrounded by clouds. The poet feels intoxicated by their dance of life, death, sickness, and sees them holding musical instruments and elements. He surrenders to the dance and joins their circle, finding acceptance in their all-powerful, joyous mandala. The poem expresses having found unwavering conviction that love is universal through this experience of dancing with the dakinis.

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    This poem describes a vision of joining a circle dance with mystical female figures called dakinis on a beautiful snow-peaked mountain surrounded by clouds. The poet feels intoxicated by their dance of life, death, sickness, and sees them holding musical instruments and elements. He surrenders to the dance and joins their circle, finding acceptance in their all-powerful, joyous mandala. The poem expresses having found unwavering conviction that love is universal through this experience of dancing with the dakinis.

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    He identifies himself with the play of dakinis

    Or that of Sarasvati.
    This poem is the discovery
    Of love in courage and freedom
    Glory be to the subject
    Poetry.
    Newcastle General Hospital
    Spring 1969

    The Perfect Love Poem


    There is a beautiful snow-peaked mountain
    With peaceful clouds wrapped round her shoulders.
    The surrounding air is filled with love and peace.
    What is going to be is what is,
    That is love.
    There is no fear of leaping into the immeasurable space of love.
    Fall in love?
    Or, are you in love?
    Such questions cannot be answered,
    Because in this peace of an all-pervading presence,
    No one is in and no one is falling in.
    No one is possessed by another.
    I see a beautiful playground
    Which some may call heaven,
    Others may regard it as a trap of hell. But,
    I, Chgyam, dont care.
    In the playground beautiful dakinis are holding hand drums, flutes, and bells.
    Some of them, who are dancing, hold naked flames, water, a nightingale,
    Or the whole globe of earth with the galaxies around it.
    These dakinis may perform their dance of death or birth or sickness,
    I am still completely intoxicated, in love.
    And with this love, I watch them circle.
    This performance is all-pervading and universal,
    So the sonorous sound of mantra is heard
    As a beautiful song from the dakinis.
    Among them, there is one dakini with a single eye,
    And turquoise hair blown gently by the wind.
    She sends a song of love and the song goes like this:
    HUM HUM HUM

    If there is no joy of mahamudra in the form,


    If there is no joy of mahamudra in the speech,
    If there is no joy of mahamudra in the mind,
    How would you understand
    That we dakinis are the mother, sister, maid, and wife.
    And she shouts with such penetrating voice, saying
    Come, come, come
    HUM HUM HUM
    Join the EH and VAM circle.
    Then I knew I must surrender to the dance
    And join the circle of dakinis.
    Like the confluence of two rivers,
    EH the feminine and VAM the male,
    Meeting in the circle of the dance.
    Unexpectedly, as I opened myself to love, I was accepted.
    So there is no questioning, no hesitation,
    I am completely immersed in the all-powerful, the joyous dakini mandala.
    And here I found unwavering conviction that love is universal.
    Five chakras of ones body filled with love,
    Love without question, love without possessions.
    This loving is the pattern of mahamudra, universal love.
    So I dance with the eighty siddhas and two thousand aspects of dakinis,
    And I will dance bearing the burden of the cross.
    No one has forsaken me.
    It is such a joyous love dance, my partner and I united.
    So the clear, peaceful mountain air,
    Gently blows the clouds,
    A beautiful silk scarf wrapped round.
    The Himalayas with their high snow peaks are dancing,
    Joining my rhythm in the dance,
    Joining with the stillness, the most dignified movement of them all.
    August 6, 1969

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