Receive and Be Taken

“Your mind, which perceives yet is free of substance,
Cognizes without thought, is conscious yet indescribable.
Free from the movements of conceptual thinking.
Remain in that state, awake and wide-open.
To remain in this nature is itself
the awakened state!”

~Padmasambhava,
from “Songs to The Twenty-Five Disciples”

If we relax and open ourselves to this immediate presence
which is infinite Divinity beyond any concept or desire,
we can feel intimations of love so unceasingly ecstatic
there is not a speck of unlove in it, nor any limitation
or qualification, except that of our own capacity
to receive and be taken, receive and be taken,
to be refined in that crucible, till we reflect
as one clear prism the sublime pure light
of our own immaculate being.