14 June 2008

Thought & Mind

Thought is a refuge: a cave gaudily decorated with our fears. It is a cave from which we rarely venture. When we do it is because we have been encouraged by an injection of energy and spirit. When this runs out or subsides we scamper back to our cave, whimpering and complaining, wondering why on Earth we ventured out in the first place.

Mind is an open expanding embracing space which when at peace contains everything there is. It is not passive. When empty it still contains natural principle, principles of generation and harmony. The body should be a concrete expression of mind, and the mind an abstraction of the principles we discover through the body. The mind cannot be cluttered with the inventions of thinking because these inventions are always illusions, but it can be obscured by them.
Bright and empty, functioning naturally,
The mind does not exert itself
It is not a place of thinking
Difficult for reason and emotion to fathom.

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