Natural Being - a deeper meditation

Because words are conceptual assertion, they always fail to directly communicate reality.

As they say in the Madhyamaka as well as in Zen, "to assert anything about the nature of reality is to miss the mark".

Both the beautiful Madhyamaka reasoning which is full of insight, ideas and concept, and which ultimately yields a non conceptual fruit, as well as the beautiful art of Buddhist meditation which is filled with calm stability and realization, necessarily meet us at some point "in real time".

You will never be satisfied with philosophy.

If you see meditation as a means you will practice quietude as a drug.

And poetry, I will add, is quite the subjective medium.


Buddhism is about relationship.

If there are philosophies and poems connected to Buddhism they are all expressing the necessary step of returning to relationship. Relationship is our Buddha in action. This is called our "Sambhogakaya" Buddha.

We can "appear" like a Buddha, we can realize or "think" like a Buddha too, these are important and are given a rightful place in Buddhism. But the best Buddha is the one practice/realization of relating, of communicating our experience the way it is, as who we are, as what we do (what ever that is), as our life.

We are not in isolation. Nothing is that way. Everything is in flow and every moment brings the next experience. We have to relate to that.

Meditation might look like sitting sometimes, enlightenment might sound like a lot of big words and high ideals, but things are still in flow, the world is not still, beings are interacting.

We work with what we got.

I can't put the words below into any kind of context really so get what you can from them or just disregard them.

In the midst of what ever is

Just this

Without directing the mind

Without distraction

Just this

Neither meditation

Nor non-meditation

Just this

Without searching

Without confusion

Just this

Without setting up

Without neglecting

Just this

Letting it be

With no effort

Just this

Whether me

Or you

Just this

However the body

However the mind

Just this

Whether grasping

Or rejecting

Just this

Without enduring

Primordially present

Just this

Unobtainable

Indistinguishable

Just this

Neither this

Nor not this

Just this


I hope you can see that you're Buddha.