An Aspiration For The World

[Guest guest]

World, we live and die on your lap.

On you we experience all our woes and joys.

You are our ancestral home of old.

Forever we cherish and adore you.

We wish to transform you into the pure realm of our dreams.

We wish to transform you into a land for all creatures,

equal to all and free of prejudice.

We wish to transform you into a loving, warm, and gentle goddess.

Our hope in you is ever so resolute.

So please be the ground on which we all may live.

So all these wishes may come true.

So all these wishes may come true.

Do not show us the dark side of your character,

where nature's calamities reign.

In every section of our world's land,

may there thrive a fertile field of peace and joy,

rich with the leaves and fruits of happiness,

filled with many sweet scents o freedom.

May we fulfill our countless and boundless wishes.

Composed by His Holiness,

The Seventeenth Karmapa,

Ogyen Trinley Dorje