grampa poem

My meditations are full

Full of a deep sadness

A mourning for all this that will pass away

A yearning for something solid to hold onto for reference

My meditations are filled with joy

A joy of nothing else needed

Of All provided by this very moment

Of bitter coffee

Of chilly damp morning bird songs

Of some deep realization that all is well with the humans.

 

L Cohen

Every heart, 
every heart to love will come,
but like a refugee.

Grampa on Awakeness

Could it be that there are but two suggestions for abiding peacefully?

-        Go with the Flow – Or remain aware and accepting of the succession of thoughts and feelings, some welling up from memory, some being sensory information, that at this moment fill pure emptiness of mind to create self. 

- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you – Or be fully present for each other with loving kindness and compassion.

J. Krishnamurti on Thought

I'm paraphrasing.  Visit www.jkrishnamurti.org.

One might come to understand the need for mental stillness, and the fact that constant thought is not necessary.  For only when thought has stopped can true reality be percieved without contamination. 

Dilgo Khyentse Teaching on Cultivating Present Moment Nowness

Dilgo Khyentse   from Shambala Sun.

The obscuring emotions of anger, jealousy, pride, ignorance and desire are nothing but thoughts.  But what are thoughts?  When you watch a thought, look to see if it has any substance or solidity.  Does it have a color or shape?  Can you find the place where the thought has arisen?  Can you find a place where it dwells?  Can you find where it has gone when it disappears from your mind?

When a negative thought like anger arises, look to see whether the thought itself and the ground from which it arises are the same or different.  Generally speaking, when you have many thoughts running through your mind, this is called “movement”.  It is the moving aspect of mind.  Occasionally there are fewer thoughts and the mind is quieter.  This is called “quiescence”, the still aspect of the mind.  When you are conscious of  having either many thoughts or few thoughts, this is called “awareness”.  You should try to practice always being cognizant of whether your thoughts are moving or still, and so on.  Try to observe your mind in this way.  Then continuing with the investigation, look to see whether the known and the knower - the object of the investigation and that which is investigating it, are two distinct things or the same.  Meditate on the nature of your mind.

Chokyi NyimaTeaching on Present Moment Nowness

Here's one:

Thought Free Wakefulness               Chokyi Nyima

If you want to obtain liberation and omniscient enlightenment, you need to be free of conceptual thinking.  Meditation training, in the sense of sustaining the nature of mind, is a way of being free from clinging and the conceptual attitude of forming thoughts, and therefore free from the causes of samsara:  karma and disturbing emotions.  Please do not believe that liberation and samsara is somewhere over there; it is here in oneself.  Thought is samsara.  Being free of thought is liberation.  When we are free of thinking, we are free of thought.