I'm a Pilgrim

"I'm a pilgrim,

and I'm a stranger,

I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.

Do not detain me, for I am going,

Yea, going where great bliss in empitness.

There the knowing is ever resting,

Oh my longing heart, my longing heart is there.

Here in Samsara, so dark and dreary.

Too long I've wandered, sad and weary.

There's the charnal ground,

to which I journey.

My Dakini is my guide, my light.

Freedom is no clinging, nor any attachment.

Thou love my star, by day and by night."

I offered this song "I'm a pilgrim" today in Dakini Day Cho Tsok, and I promised to post the lyrics on the blog. I always like this song, and I have changed a few words from this originally a Christian song by Herbert Johnson.

"Maybe we did it together before, hundreds of years ago ... gathered in the charnel grounds and performed Tsok offerings to various beings". Khandro-la led us to this timeless journeying before we started the Tsok sadhana. Today we gather in the cyber world sitting in front of the screens in different parts of the world, but we still do it the same way with the same tunes, just like the old days.