NOTHING TO DO, NO PROBLEM TO SOLVE.

[Pravin Kumar]

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Nothing to do, No Problem to Solve

Nothing to do, or problem to solve,
The recognition of Awareness to resolve.
For This is the constant conscious screen,
On which thoughts and sensations are seen.

The mind is a problem solving device,
Which quietens when there are none to entice.
When intent on identifying with the deeper level
Of Awareness, then thoughts will not bedevil.

This ‘intent’ is better than going to church,
To aid the mind in ‘calling off the search’
For non existent problems to crack,
As in Awareness there is no lack.

Unless the mind is given a task,
It will probe, and spin and ask …
This ‘intent’ is a vital, precious clue
Which sets a task with ‘nothing to do’.

When it is on a task intent,
The mind’s meandering will relent.
In this it may well become still,
For there is nothing for it to fill.

When thus engaged it will not follow
Stray thoughts and feelings that ‘show’.
These will just float across the sky
Of Awareness which it cannot deny.

With no problem to solve the mind can let go.
This sets the milieu in which it can know
The underlying constant conscious screen:
Awareness ever radiant, pure and pristine!

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A poem from 'Poetry From Beyond The Separate Self' based on a chapter of 'Beyond The Separate Self'.

I write (and read) these posts, based on my meditations and contemplations, as much for my own benefit as for that of 'others'. For this helps to keep me 'awake' in this illusory, and impermanent, world ... our perception of which is based purely on our physical, and mental, configuration.

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