Lotus Born, No Need to Fear

[Verse 1: Laurie Anderson]

Awakened one

With  a body like this

You  will see your home and family

As though you were meeting them in a dream

But although you speak to them

You  will get no reply

You  will see your relatives and family weeping

So you will think "I am dead"

"What  shall I do?"

And you will feel intense pain

Like the pain of a fish rolling in hot sand

But now, suffering is no use

Even  though you were attached to your relatives and family

It is no use

So. Do not be attached

Invoke the lord of great compassion

And there will be no suffering or fear

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2: Laurie Anderson]

Awakened one

Since your mind is separated from your body

You can not settle down

You feel angry and cold

And consciousness becomes... airy

Speeding, swaying

And impermanent

You will think

"So. I am dead."

"What shall I do now?"

And you will feel intense and boundless pain

Do not occupy yourself with all kinds of thoughts

But rest your mind in its basic state

But since you are a mental body, you cannot die

And even though your body is cut into pieces

You will recover

You are really the natural form of emptiness

So there is no need to fear

The lords of death are the natural form of emptiness

Your own confused projections and you

Are emptiness

The mental body of unconscious tendencies

Emptiness cannot harm emptiness

And external lords of death, gods, evil spirits

Demons and so on

Have no reality apart from your own confused projections

So. Recognize this

At this moment

Recognize everything as

The bardo