POETRY
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 2:26 am
December 26, 2005, by Charles Carreon
Woke around 6 am
Sat in the living room on the floor, looking
out onto the porch and toward the East
As I sat I realized that
I was free to do nothing
I was free to not respond to my thoughts
impulses, inclinations, emotions
Free to just sit and be
Giving myself permission
Valuing the doing of nothing
Finding freedom from doing
Comes from relying on
The sufficiency of Being
Gaining familiarity with plain existence
Attention aware of itself
Settles the field of perception
With clarity the result
Craving the satisfaction of stillness
Clear water of mind
There is only the path ---
Let the muddy pond settle.
Woke around 6 am
Sat in the living room on the floor, looking
out onto the porch and toward the East
As I sat I realized that
I was free to do nothing
I was free to not respond to my thoughts
impulses, inclinations, emotions
Free to just sit and be
Giving myself permission
Valuing the doing of nothing
Finding freedom from doing
Comes from relying on
The sufficiency of Being
Gaining familiarity with plain existence
Attention aware of itself
Settles the field of perception
With clarity the result
Craving the satisfaction of stillness
Clear water of mind
There is only the path ---
Let the muddy pond settle.