Chokma is a Chickasaw word meaning 'good'. I am a student of the Buddhadharma living in a small community in middle Tennessee. The land we occupy was ceded by the Chickasaw tribe in 1816.
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On a shelf: stable calm-state meditation,
I offer water for drinking: clear and empty primordial purity.
I offer water for bathing: unchanging samadhi.
I offer flowers: natural luminosity, free of clinging.
I offer incense: the natural freedom of whatever arises.
I offer a lamp: continuous practice throughout day and night.
I offer perfume: spontaneous presence, free of clinging.
I offer food: simultaneous appearance and emptiness.
I offer music: unborn and empty sound.
I offer a mandala: the various visions.
~ Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol, (1781-1851) Lamp of Continuous Practice
from The Life of Shabkar, translated by Mathieu Ricard, Snow Lion 1991
