home-brand no-frills awareness

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she’s poised for another departure,
leaving the mountain and the cottage called Bliss

a woman without a past or a future,
a woman who is no woman or thing
who knows herself as ordinary alertness-in-action

ears held high like the hare grazing
the dewy meadow outside the window,
she notices the clues and the cues arising

and she follows each sensation
the way a dog traces a scent, to its source
in this dimensionless emptiness

to its source – which cannot be ripped
apart from its appearance:
this bright basic home-brand
no-frills awareness

~

good morning pain

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pain, pain, pain

perception grabs pain –
perceived location?
above ear, left side of head

conceptualization grabs pain –
conceptualized description?
sharp, irregular, might be telling me something

awareing views pain –
without label, placement, explanation or conclusion:
sensation, energetic, shimmering, wondrous

in this naked knowingness
pain simply is …

no problem

~

looking-without-labeling

22

she who was depressed is nowhere to be found:
looking-without-labeling left only sensation devoid of
owner or sad-sack story

the sensation called “depression” spoke only of
the utter exhaustion of a brain and a body

with the absence of she who was depressed,
(hmmm … make that she who wanted to not be depressed)
it’s crystal clear that the body/brain just wants rest

it just wants story-free peace

it just wants to sink into this womb of gentle healing,
this fountainhead of sweet Grace:

now-and-this-and-here

exactly as-it-is!

~

sit! sit! sink into wondrous spaciousness

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apparently

there’s a palm frond fluttering and a whistler trying to be mindful
a bird is whistling too, but purposefully

there’s a toddler laughing in the crisp autumn sunshine
and a radio quacking the morning news

there’s toothache and tiredness
but the zafu beckons beguilingly

sit! sit! sink into wondrous spaciousness
the source of all that is being perceived and sensed

~

how could something called spaciousness
be so alive, alert, aware and utterly unknowable?

~