I bow with devotion to the excellent supreme lama.

With the thought of benefiting, I send this heart message.

All of you who desire liberation from the infinite ocean of samsara:

Don’t seek a blind guide for the path;

Rely on a lama with the qualities of learning and practice. Befriend those of virtuous mind.

Study and become learned in faults and good qualities, what to accept or reject.

This crazed elephant of neurotic mind,

Catch it with the hook of conscientious mindfulness.

Herd it quickly into the corral of the Three Jewels’ compassion.

Wash off the swamp odor with the water of the four remedial powers.

Attire it in the armor of the accumulation of merit and wisdom, 

And adorn it with jewels of wish-fulfilling bodhichitta.

With such a perfectly tamed elephant of mind,

Intoxicated by the wine of the lama’s teachings and blessings,

Brandish the sharp sword of selflessness,

And spurred on by the whip of effortless effort,

Charge the unimpeded armies of habits and obscurations,

Destroying them with uncontrollably swift force.

Claim the throne of the king of self-arising awareness

In the great kingdom of vast, all-pervasive dharmadatu.

Reach the limits of the ocean of beneficial activity.

Written spontaneously by Padma Gargyi Wangkhyuk in Williams, Oregon, in a secluded place  blessed by Guru Padma, a joyful grove of rigdzins, on July 4, 1985, during the fourth teaching retreat of the profound secret Great Perfection. May this enhance the practice of even some of my students.