Sky Burial
I. A Shrine on the Mountain
(Instrumental)
II. The Ritual
On mountain pantheons
Crawling dawn among the cathedrals of cold stone ascends
Embraces ancient sanctuary
It hides from worldy sight
Charnel grounds
Altar possessed by death
A sacred place for cultivating forthcoming emptiness
Below the first light
Priests, brothers of karma
Prepare the rotting earthly gifts for aerial coroners
The Daikins
Supreme tyrants of Jhator
Oh sky dancers
Generous offering
Human transition
Into cloud furnace of the enlightened onе
He, who has changing faces knows the grеat beyond
Consciousness has the task to fly through endless lands
Witness countless nights and days in the ever-forming cycle
It's the will of samsara
It’s the will of the insight
The eternal liberation of travelling oneness
Fierce, feathered beasts of storm ngesting the old flesh
This impermanent vessel for continuous separations
Bury me in the wind
Bury deep in the final gale at the end
To see the other side of this darkness
From the final breath
Until the first steps on forbidden heavens
Embrace the air! Liberate me!
Free me from chocking stillness
Let me join you oh dancers
In the floating valley of the sky
Stellar end and forming beginning
Are devouring the opened gates of the body
Releasing the essential unified seed of non-decaying self
Now the shrine glows in luminous radiant evolution of spirits
III. Astral Departure
(Instrumental)
IV. On the Horizon of Bardo
“In recollection
Of all former births
Passed before his eyes
Born in such a place, of such a name
And downwards to his present birth, So through hundreds
Thousands myriads, all his births and deaths he knew.”
(Bardo Tödöl – Tibetan Book of the Dead)
A pilgrimage begins into silent towers of justice
A sojourn is bittersweet where decline itself is rising
An enthrophy and summoning shall cohere, so one meets judgement
On the horizon of bardo you mean nothing
Embrace the air! Liberate me!
Free me from chocking stillness
Let me join you oh dancers!
Bury me in the wind
Bury deep in the final gale at the end
To see the other side of this darkness
From the final breath
Until the first steps on forbidden heavens
Liberate me!
V. A Waking World Unknown
(Instrumental)