Empty Vessels
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2/8/19
Based on sutras, Easten thought and commentary of monks, lecturers, philosophers, writers, and practitioners. Please excuse the use of Buddhist terminology and some jargon. Attribution to Jon Kabat-Zinn who popularized mindfulness at the turn of the century in America. Principles of Tibetan Buddhism are also mentioned here. Others who influenced this writing are Joseph Campbell, Eckhart Tolle, Tara Brach, Pema Chodron, Adyashanti, Trungpa Rinpoche, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg.
We are all empty vessels on the ocean of consciousness:
navigate mindfulness to awareness, then awaken.
There are many lineages, some shallow harbors.
Enlightenment remains always on the horizon.
To understand oneness, universal consciousness -
embrace "nothingness", "no-self", "emptiness".
If it seems contradictory, that's not an illusion.
Let go, allow ego to dissolve, fall into emptiness.
Dismiss judgmentality and raging individualism.
Look into suffering with karmic loving-kindness.
Open to your Buddhanature, your Buddhaself.
Tame your mind on the meditation cushion.
Resist grasping enlightenment, enlightenment finds you.
Empty your vessel and be liberated.
Fill your life with love and compassion.
Become the other.
Copyright © Greg Gaul | Year Posted 2019
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