Wednesday, November 24, 2010

engaged in this

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what comes is what brings itself to this

what rests there and what moves on

these are both a part of the same stuff

the stuff of emergingrecedingpausing

bring your feeling sense to what I am

pointing to if you will, if you feel to


there is an ‘empty’ state or open, spacious,

receiving, nothing being grasped for or at

that pervades the formerly preoccupied

ground such that ground becomes being

being breathes just as awareness is quietly

cascadingshoweringbathing itself ever anew


things get done yet no doing ~ on and on

spontaneously refreshing, involuntarily,

with and without innocence both

nothing you can or need to do about it

but be in and as the receiving,

the flowering of this, engaged in this


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2 comments:

  1. This poem came about indirectly but somehow related to the prompt this week. After writing it, I gave pause to what response it might have come from... it occurred to me, possibly these poets/thinkers: Adyashanti, Krishnamurti, Joyus Lippincott

    A quote from Krishnamurti: » Life and Living » “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

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  2. Thanks for this offering. I really enjoyed the elided words and the texture/processual nature of nature/the content they conveyed:

    "what comes is what brings itself to this
    what rests there and what moves on
    these are both a part of the same stuff
    the stuff of emergingrecedingpausing"

    and

    "being breathes just as awareness is quietly
    cascadingshoweringbathing itself ever anew"

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