Best Desireless Poems
A breathing life ....to eat, work and sleep
Sowing wispy thoughts ...for dreams to reap.
Desires and Cravings ..caged in Pandora's box.
In torrid temptations....a Genie unlocks.
Three Wishes!!..to escape into glorious world.
Yearnings and Longings....an endless unfurled.
A satiated soul....can it be my first wish?
A desireless Buddha.. curb the greedy selfish.
The acid of hatred, anger and anguish
Can it dissolve into water?.my profound second wish.
My last immortal wish?..to live on and on...
Embedded in Beloved.. Unforgotten.. when I'm gone.
24th October 2018
Three Wishes Poetry Contest
Sponsor Kevin Shaw
PLACED FIRST IN CONTEST
1.Seeds of desire cause
all-beings ever suffer.
2.Desire, free from birth
desire less solution creates.
3.Desirelessness, above wealthy, any
wealth unequals that.
4.Pure; desireless, truthfulness yields
pure in heart.
5.Desireless, suffers not rest
are not desire less.
6.Desire less escaping righteousness
it displeases weak
7.Killing desires, obtain unfailing
deeds as desired.
8.Distress discontinues for desire less
rest, sorrows overflow.
9.Ceasing of melancholy desires
yields ceaseless joy.
10.Eliminating unfulfilling desire which
yields great pleasure.
…………………………………
Dedicated to Thiruvalluvar(31B.C), the author in Tamil
Translated by S.Kandasamy, MUSIRI, TAMILNADU, INDIA
Published in poetrysoup.com on 15-12-13
The cause of sadness also shows its end;
That we let go the loved one and remain.
Such comfort,aid and love we have from friends
Helps us bear the heart’s most dangerous pain.
But if our friends fear their own hidden grief.
If sorrow is never let to touch their heart;
Then friendship’s stolen by a nervous thief;
As wishing to retain our self,we part.
The friends who sit in silent company
Who look for no reward yet love us true
Who show, quite clear, desireless empathy;
They are friends who warmth and hope imbue.
Patient silence may do more than words
The utterance of the heart is not absurd.
9.1
“Opposing forces,
duties done and left undone—
when does it end
and for whom?
Considering this, be ever desireless,
let go of all things,
and to the world turn an indifferent eye”
9.3
“Seeing all things as threefold suffering,
the sage becomes still
Insubstantial, transient, contemptible--
the world is fit only for rejection”
Sacrilege but we beg to differ
Based upon what we do infer
Detachment not indifference
Why anaesthetise sentience
Celebration not rejection
Exuberance not dejection
Pain may be but suffering imaginal
If we feel it is real not conjectural
As for the rest and reading between the lines
We do divine
That being not the doer there is no doing
In dynamic stillness too the Divine alone is moving
If we are here it is of our own choosing
Let our stillness then be our consciousness so accepting
Surrendering the illusionary ephemeral to the flow
Erasing negativity within to reveal our presence aglow
In stillness slow
(20-August-2019)
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Verse revisited on 29-October-2021
Earth life manifests sharp contrast
Leaving even fearless hearts aghast
We are here to energise our potential
That we may conjure our love parable
For in the domain of light our soul rests
Facing adversity triumph earth life tests
On reaching exhaustion get to recognition
That desire cessation pathway to liberation
So ceasing thinking, we meld head and heart
In the void of stillness we feel bliss ignition start
Our emptiness magnetised by bliss in fullness
In time time we merge with the That oneness
We are then in but not of the external world
In silence we celebrate as soul is unfurled
Spiritual heart, here now within our form
Enlivened by divine bliss currents warm
Layer by layer we see identity vaporise
In boundless measure does bliss rise
Negating nothing exiting stagnation
Flow of life itself is our meditation
Joys,
sorrows ,
good and bad,
are dualisms
present since eternity. We all seek
good sans bad, ever thought which is better?
Hardships strengthens,
shows life truths,
ends our
sins.
~~~~~
When
we think
positive,
are calm even
in miseries, they vanish on their own.
Root cause of miseries are our desires.
When desireless,
our mind is
full of
bliss.
~~~~~
If
we have
faith in God
and think all that
he does is for our good, our sadness ends.
If we resolve to be happy at all
times nothing can
steal inner
joy from
us
~~~~~
Mind
is a
blank canvas,
we can paint on
it as per our wish. If we paint happy
thoughts our life becomes exhilarating.
Wise men know that
they are soul
not the
flesh.
~~~~~
Equanimous at all times, devoid of
all attachments,
wise lead a
life of
bliss.
~~~~~
Date: 11/21/2020
What comes and goes, holds for us no allure
Play of lower mind, awareness endures
Positioned desireless, in stillness slow
Radiant luminosity aglow
Self existent, unbound, vibrant and pure
Ego borne desires seeking an encore
Blown away like a leaf, always unsure
Myriad illusions, merely shadows
What comes and goes
In timeless time, desires surface no more
Allowing then, bliss currents to inpour
In alignment, mind body too, mellow
Fragrance of love divine, gently follows
Ego vaporised; no one keeping score
What comes and goes
15-January-2021
Ceasing striving, poised in the void
We play out our life role
Fearless, desireless, by love buoyed
Bliss throbs make us feel whole
Journey without movement
In quiet contentment
Love’s our sole sentiment
Joy reviving
Ceasing striving
26-March-2022
Quietus
14.3
“I have realized the Supreme Self,
the Witness, the One
I am indifferent
to bondage and freedom.
I have no need for liberation”
14.4
“The inner condition
of one who is devoid of doubt
yet moves among creatures of illusion
can only be known by those like him”
What is realisation
What is awakening
If there remains doubt or hesitation
In conclusions arising from our contemplation
Then we are still searching
There being a gap in our so connecting
Our consciousness with supreme awareness
Blockages impeding full flow of Divine fragrance
After the initial witnessing or experiencing
There is a long road in consolidating & assimilating
The knowing
Not quite the becoming
As long as the current is intermittent
We are short of full enlightenment
And whilst the glimpses are encouraging
We need to surrender fully to cognise the Supreme all pervading
The symptoms manifest may yet be as stated as unseeking
We may be content in the Divine stream within us flowing
Yet to be truthful can we affirm the validity
Of being connected to the Source in an unbroken continuity
Being detached and desireless is an orientation laudable
But to say that we are free of doubt is a concept laughable
So whilst we patiently & trustingly await our blossoming
We are humble in confessing that we are still unseekingly seeking
13-December-2020
18.7
“Seeing everything is imagination,
knowing the Self as timelessly free,
the sage lives as a child”
18.8
“Knowing himself as Absolute,
knowing existence and non-existence
to be imagination only,
what is there for the desireless one
to learn, say or do?”
Employing conscious thought to choose meditation
Then handing over the baton of awareness to intuition
Intuition resting in the stream flowing Divine connection
Rests allowing manifestation of ineffable blissful elation
If the point we miss
The learning is this
Just be to become
With Divine Love one
In childlike innocence
Without resistance
(23-August-2019)
~~~
Verse 18.7 to 18.8 revisited on 12-January-2022
What is the underlying noumena
Birthing all manifest phenomena
Self-hypnosis in the hall of mirrors
Fears and desires giving us shivers
Being but illusions we did manifest
Akin to a lucid dream playful jest
At day’s end we slip into deep sleep
Thoughts fade, bliss sinks in deep
We awake each morn sans memory
In stupor continuing our life journey
Yet while awake if we opt for silence
We reclaim divinity of our innocence
Oh worthy lama, cessation the way
Fearless, desireless, given to play
In monk mode embrace and release
Free flowing like the morning breeze
Presence within but not of the world
Sees with each breath, joy unfurled
Mind-body that hitherto was subject
Shifts into the void, thus an object
Pristine awareness free from thought
Devoid of thought, is not fear fraught
That that remains our soul presence
Blissful love and light luminescence
“If you would merge with oneness, vaporise!
Be a child again, welcoming surprise!”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Immersed in limitation
Shrouded in darkness
Feeling thus confined
We flounder about
Hither and thither
Searching for joy
Bliss in permanence
Yet our heart senses
That we are far more
Than this mind body
With senses externalised
Lower mind fragmenting
Trying to piece together
The puzzle of life
Without success
Thus in delusion
Hypnotised by illusions
We strive and struggle
Hoping for a miracle
Which instantly appears
No sooner we ask
As voice of conscience
Echoing Gods will
Which has but one vibration
Love unconditional
Here begins a struggle
Between head and heart
Between ego and the divine
Former seizing, grasping
The latter, sharing, connecting
We recognise
That the voice of truth
Is that of conscience
Yet, we fear to lose
Fleeting images garnered
Or which we yearn for
Since we are clinging
To ego mind body
Stagnating in ferality
Trapped by our own hand
Unable to escape
It is then
That God in His compassion
Extends us a hand
Showing us the clear light
Of immutable truth eternal
By posing challenges
By signalling the futility
Of chasing a mirage
Illusionary thought forms
Which is what
All manifestations are
Thus when so graced
We begin to look inwards
In silence and stillness
Thought rested awareness
Doing nothing
Simply resting
Poised in the void
Of no-thingness
Desireless
Fearless
Detached
Nonchalant
Unexpectant
In timeless time
In as ordained
Attention is softened
Thoughts are quietened
Ego cravings recede
The external fades
As we get to
Vibrant emptiness
Thus we are
Thus we remain
For as long as it takes
Toxins within cleansed
Our earth life vessel
This mind body
Is readied
To receive the elixir
The magnetic impulse
Of Gods bountiful love
In boundless measure
The paths are many
We know them not
For we are not the doer
God alone is the mover
In childlike trust
Aspect allowing
We imbibe the bliss
Scintillating
~~~~~~~
He is that who may not be named
We too are as He, oh hermit
Within heart as the turret
Our divinity unstained
05-December-2020
Contest: The light N/A
You ask me if I want a latte
And I ask you to please rip your face off this time
Because I can hear the light inside you
Dying to get out.
Courtesy has become a sort of madness
Unless it be wild courtesy:
Running, hurling yourself
Through the air holding a cup and saucer
In the direction of a favorite loved one.
Giving money to everyone.
Desireless bliss.
Imagine needing nothing.
Under the ground.
Without a sound.
And the levitation will begin.
The dreamer dreams, becoming the object
How may the object awake as subject
Unreal object is but a thought beam
Our desire impels thought as a life stream
Bubble bursts when the object does not react
Cessation the way to exit this net
Desireless entity, its course corrects
Void like space and ungraspable like steam
The dreamer dreams
Ego fictional does urges direct
Entrapping attention to deeds suspect
Hypnotic bind from which we cannot wean
Vaporisation alone reclaims sheen
Object vanishes, our stance then erect
The dreamer dreams
05-January-2021
Divine light bursts, it’s hue, soft, brilliant white
Quenching our desireless, unseeking thirst
We behold the wonder, by direct sight
Happening spontaneous, unrehearsed
As living light, within form is disbursed
Unbound is both tranquil calm and delight
No doing by us done; we are nursed
Divine light bursts, it’s hue, soft, brilliant white
Gods touch assures all wrongs will be set right
Having risen above delusion erst
As we be suffused in His healing light
Quenching our desireless, unseeking thirst
Negating all knowing, with which mind versed
Our heart propels us into divine flight
Ensconced in love, with God having conversed
We behold the wonder, by direct sight
Our continuum thus through day and night
Ego cravings upturned, karma reversed
Humming purring renews in form airtight
Happening spontaneous, unrehearsed
No separate self needs to be coerced
Presence in innocence at zenith height
We are fully, in the bliss stream immersed
One with the oneness, dissolved and quiet
Divine light bursts
02-January-2021
If
only
we be still,
embracing life,
as it does unfold,
without narrow craving,
thus fearless and desireless,
then, as staid witness to ourself,
we are within but not in the world,
joyous mist of bliss, free and unfettered.
There then thus, no doing, that need be done,
save slowly shedding off old thought forms
rooted in ego borne cravings,
which seek to demonise us,
shrouding us in darkness,
even though the light
within us shines
in the cave
of our
heart.
11-May-2021
14.3
“I have realized the Supreme Self,
the Witness, the One
I am indifferent
to bondage and freedom.
I have no need for liberation”
14.4
“The inner condition
of one who is devoid of doubt
yet moves among creatures of illusion
can only be known by those like him”
What is realisation
What is awakening
If there remains doubt or hesitation
In conclusions arising from our contemplation
Then we are still searching
There being a gap in our so connecting
Our consciousness with supreme awareness
Blockages impeding full flow of Divine fragrance
After the initial witnessing or experiencing
There is a long road in consolidating & assimilating
The knowing
Not quite the becoming
As long as the current is intermittent
We are short of full enlightenment
And whilst the glimpses are encouraging
We need to surrender fully to cognise the Supreme all pervading
The symptoms manifest may yet be as stated as unseeking
We may be content in the Divine stream within us flowing
Yet to be truthful can we affirm the validity
Of being connected to the Source in an unbroken continuity
Being detached and desireless is an orientation laudable
But to say that we are free of doubt is a concept laughable
So whilst we patiently and trustingly await our blossoming
We are humble in confessing that we are still unseekingly seeking
(20-August-2019)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Verse 14.3-14.4 revisited on 17-November-2021
Mere affirmation
Not a confirmation
Although we confess
That there’s been progress
With glimpses offered
Wisdom proffered
In a slow tease
That does please
Essence of presence
Blissful joyous innocence
Knowing God in-dwells each form
Birthing magnetic rapture warm
No sooner ego disappears
God Himself appears
The way is simple
Though mind fickle
Once it melds with heart
Feel therein bliss ignition start
Soma nectar flows through nadis
Heightened ecstatic joy in continuity
Each pore a door, do we yet need more
There is no one here keeping a score
All is, as is, a bliss continuum
Each node our sensorium
Love meads, we follow
In stillness mellow