Showing posts with label verse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label verse. Show all posts

Lap Cat

Our cat yawns;
Swaps laps in the TV's glow.
Only now is life.
-- gs 2012.05.01

Face Breeze Now

Face flush
Breeze soft
Now cool
Now still
Now still

- gs 2010.01.10

Creating The Now We Need

Outcomes? Yes, there will always be some kind of Outcome.
So, in this new moment i will humbly try to help create the Now we all need;
Patiently observing the arising Outcomes, without clinging or aversion;
And continue trying to help create each new, needed, ever-changing Now.

-- gs 2009.04.02

Mindful Wave

Arise, mindful wave!
Know that there is arising.
Who is arising?

Arise, mindful wave!
Absorb nearby momentums'
summing energies.

Arise, mindful wave!
Beware the heady self.
Take just what's given.

Abide, mindful wave!
Know that there is abiding.
Who is abiding?

Abide, mindful wave!
Experience follows mind,
Led and made by mind.¹

Abide, mindful wave!
Breathe. See clearly. Know what is.
Let go to be free.

Engage, mindful wave!
Know that there is engaging.
Who engages whom?

Engage, mindful wave!
Shaped by and gently shaping
Vast contingent seas.

Engage, mindful wave!
In high swells or flat water,
Be what's needed Now.

Abate, mindful wave.
Know that there is abating.
Who is abating?

Abate, mindful wave.
Pass on your life's momentums'
Lasting legacies.

Abate, mindful wave.
Profound equanimity.


- gs 2008.09.03/2008.10.12
See Mindfulness Metaphor - Wave - gs 2006.06.11

¹ This verse draws from opening verses 1-2 of The Dhammapada,
as translated by Gil Fronsdal:
"All experience is preceded by mind, Led by mind, Made by mind."

Related Reading :
The Dhammapada:
A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic With Annotations

Translated & Annotated by Gil Fronsdal,
with forward by Jack Kornfield


Heat Advisory June 8, 2008

Stepped out of my house
Into unexpected heat;
Fogged my glasses.

- gs June 8, 2008

Fountain of Youth

So, if there is a fountain,
From which they say youth springs.
I think, one might, to find it,
Begin again to notice little things.
-gs 1964
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How did i forget that for so long?
-gs 2014

Free Falling

Free falling.
Cat-like gyrations.
Feet first.
This time.

-gs 2007.07.05