Friends

Friends are empty forms like a watermoon
To think of them as being truly real
Will only make your many sufferings increase

To know they're empty forms like a watermoon
Will make illusion-like samadhi increase
Compassion free of clinging will increase

And non-referential view will also increase
And meditation that's fixation-free
And conduct free of doer-deed increase

Of all the many marvels this by far the most marvelous
Of all the many wonders, this the most wonderful

Composed by Khenpo Tusltrim Gyamtso Rinpoche at Marpa House, England, August 1997. Translated and arranged by Jim Scott.