LADY OF THE LOTUS BORN

Gyalwa Changchub & Namkhai Nyingpo, Lady of the Lotus-Born: The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal: A Transltion of The Lute Song of the Gabdharvas, A Revelation in Eight Chapters of the Secret History of the Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal, Queen of Tibet: A Treasured text committed to writing by Gyalwa Changchub and Namkhai Nyingpo, Discovered by Terton Taksham Smten Lingpa, translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, with a Foreword by Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2002) ("'Many times have I vowed to have no attachment in any circumstances for my body, speech, and mind. These living beings that we call insects have risen due to karma. Why should I be frightened by the magic sleights of wicked spirits? All actions are the issue of thoughts, good or ill; and since all that happens thus is merely thought, I should accept everything equally.' And in this spirit of confidence she sang: What we understand to be phenomena / Are but the magical projections of the mind. / The hollow vastness of the sky / I never saw to be afraid of anything. // All this is but the self-glowing light of clarity. / There is no other cause at all. / All that happens is but my adornment. / Better, then, to stay in silent meditation." Id. at 85.).