Free and Easy Vajra Song

Shared with us in Sunday's Yoga Nidra session with Corinne Peterson.

Vajra

Vajra (Devanagari: वज्र;Chinese: 金剛 jīngāng; Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ། dorje; Japanese: 金剛 kongo) is a Sanskrit word meaning boththunderbolt and diamond. it is also a common male name inTibet and Bhutan. Additionally it is a symbolic ritual object that symbolizes both the proprieties of a diamond (indestructibility) and a thunderbolt (irresistible force).

Free and Easy Vajra Song
By Lama Gendun Rinpoche

Happiness cannot be found
through great effort and willpower
for it is already present
in relaxation and letting go.

So don't strain yourself;
for there is nothing to do.
Whatever arises in the mind
has no real importance,
for it has no lasting reality.
Don't be attached to it;
don't identify with it and
don't pass judgement upon it.

Without changing or manipulating anything
let the entire game of life happen on its own,
springing up and falling back like waves--
everything vanishes and reappears,
magically without end.

Our searching for happiness
prevents us from BEING it
like rainbows that we pursue
without ever catching.

What is real already exists
always here
accompanying us in every instant.

Wanting to grasp the ungraspable
you exhaust yourself in vain.
As soon as you open and relax,
space is here -
open, inviting and comfortable.

Don't search any further.
Don't go into the tangled jungle
looking for the great elephant
who's already resting quietly here at home.

Nothing to do,
nothing to force.
Nothing to want-
everything happening by itself.