SIMPLY TO BE FREE

[Pravin Kumar]

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Simply Free To Be

Can you imagine living simply free,
Unconstrained by fear and conditioning,
Just here and now, spontaneously,
With no constant self-image repositioning?

For this last is not our true identity,
Nor is the ephemeral body/mind.
What's needed is deep self-inquiry,
The fundamental essence to find.

Sitting alertly, quietly, it's easy to see,
There's effortless awareness of thought
And of sensations detected by the body,
This subjective presence is what's sought.

For thoughts and sensations are just
Objects that always come and go,
But awareness is constant, so that must
Be the essence that ‘sees’ this flow.

Choicelessly of these aware,
Silent and still, ever here,
Untroubled, without a care,
That in which they all appear.

As This there's naught to achieve, get or find,
For you're already That, the subjective presence,
Forever aware of the body and mind,
Our fundamental, innermost, vital essence.

And so you're simply free to be,
Released from the tyranny of thoughts,
For you are the subject which these see,
Beyond mental angst, shoulds and oughts.
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A poem from "Poetry From Beyond The Separate Self" based on a chapter of "Beyond The Separate Self" . For more see comments on photos.

COLIN DRAKE