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This body-mind rests as unwavering happiness.
How can that be so?
There’s a mangled knee, and surgery tomorrow.
There’s midge and mozzie mayhem.
There’s a stiff spine from a strange posture
held overlong in the studio …
Yet suchness equals happiness.
Who could fret about pain,
worry about surgery,
fuss over insect bites,
complain of a sore back
when every detail of every scenario
is simply what-is?
Without a hint of negation
aversion or denial
I fail to find any owner.
This body-mind rests as unwavering happiness
and that happiness, too,
is simply what-is.
Without a hint of desire
preference or aspiration
I fail to find any owner.
~
[2002]
echoes from emptiness 
♥ refreshing ~ inspiring ♥ thank you ~
Thank You, dear Shira
_/\_
~ ml
‘what-is’
Parmenides said: ‘being is; non-being is not”. It is not only a matter of logic, though Parmenides was a consistent logician.
thinking = non-being
speaking = non-being + being
hearing = being
How interesting!
‘Thinking’ certainly does seem to obscure naked Beingness. ‘Speaking’ can be an expression of that Beingness – or not, depending on the intervention of thought and emotion. ‘Hearing’ – if it is open and not clouded by images/memory – is one of the powerful ways Beingness receives ITself.
Thanks, dear AM
~ ml