Immediate Presence Awareness
If you understand that the mind
and the elements of the manifest universe
are not two, but only one
You have realized relaxed presence
Let your awareness shine
Everything arises as pure delight
Everything passes
And there is always
this immediate presence
Profound and tranquil
Free of complexity
Non-dual luminous clarity!
It's the crystal-mirror ~
I love it, but what do you mean by "Everything arises as pure delight"?, what about pain
ReplyDeleteThank you Elisa, kind and thoughtful
ReplyDeleteI have wondered too... what about pain?
Well, it all depends on the meaning
of delight...
If it's undistracted presence awareness
Pain will most certainly bring you there
It's the conceptualizing mind stream
That takes us into the agonizing fixations
So, yes even pain can bring us
to one pointed immediate awareness
Pain too arises
and pain always pass
And still... 'there is always
this immediate presence'
Mahalo and Aloha
Beautiful post and response to Elisa. I have found this to be true too... Pain can and does take you "there..." Everything is an invitation to Freedom... Everything is a dance of light and dark - as one... Christine
ReplyDeleteChristine Thank you Thank you!
ReplyDeleteExactly so! I have been totally immersed in that dance for 13 days now: light and darkness.
Darkness descends when the conceptualizing mind runs all possible distractions. Freedom releases from these fixations and then there is light that embraces and nurtures the passing pains.