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The Great Way isn’t difficult
– nor is it easy
aspiring to walk it
one hobbles oneself
better to sit down now,
rest your tired feet
and with a sweet sigh soak up
The Great View
~
The Great Way by Sengstan (Third Zen Patriarch)
aspiration
no one owns this happiness
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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 