One day on a mountain ridge

One day on a mountain ridge
above a vast plain
I saw your Master streaming across the sky.

The next day I learned
you had left your body.

Later, as I wailed in your house
not knowing how to go on
living without you,
you appeared howling with laughter:

You thought I died!
Now I’m everywhere!

Half my life has passed this since then.
What I’ve found is there’s no place where you are not.
Since you put the holy bread
of the mantra on my tongue
all I have to do is repeat the Name
and you are there:
Sublime flame swaying in bliss.