Be not the troubled seeker
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Children, whenever arises desire, passion, aversion, delusion, or mental resistance with regard to forms cognizable via the eye, you should hold the mind in check. Otherwise you’re gonna lose your cool.
—-Old Pali saying, reconsidered
Suppose the troubled seeker
walks into Fabre’s Groc.
on a hot July morning
looking for the answer
&
there he is, the grocer Justin
peacefully asleep behind the cash register.
Does the seeker awaken him,
bug the grocery man?
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The seeker needed to know
what unsettled his mind.
Justin, without opening his eyes
answers the question not spoken.
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What you want here is nothing.
Doesn’ exist.
Never has been.
What you seek is nothing to me now.
What you seek will never, ever be.
What you seek will never, ever be to me.
Whatever you think there is,
Whatever you think is produced,
This nothingness
You must discard.
Forget it.
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Only in this way,
Will you gain
That composure you seek.
Only by ceasing to seek
What does not exist,
Will you ever get calm in your head.
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And only then will you
Quit bothering me
On a hot, breathless day
Like this and
Like me, delight in your equanimity.
Really get into the groove.
Welcome that peace in your head.
Get yourself
Wrapped up in it.
Let your consciousness
Settle in it.
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Now get the fuck outa here
And let me sleep.
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Thus spoke one of the great
Bodhisattvas of all time.
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Video and text by R Young, wishing all and every a great day.
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