This poem on insight and illusion was translated from Portuguese to English by Daniela Boeira. Show me the truth Honey is sweet by nature Offer me the most precious treasure The lamp that dissipates the darkness Within my hesitant mind Small and slow steps Your enlightened compassion does not waver While cutting sharply through illusions I […]
Padma Drolma
Mother of the Dharma Body
This poem on the feminine infinite is offered in its Portuguese original and its English translation. Drolma Dharmakaya Mother Space of the beginningless end Ineffable and ever present Your touch is my very skin Free us from the imprisoning mind From the coarse eyes that only perceive lies I hear with delight the melody of life […]
Devotion to the Guru
Padma Drolma And if in all the beads nothing comes up I won’t forget you I’ll give another turn Despite my thousand stumbles For I know that thin are the lines which separate mastery from fear They are tiny and do not define Space is the shelter that does not welcome It afflicts me […]