03 June, 2013

Samsara's Wheel by Julian Colgan

Never was there a time 
when any type of sentient being 
was exempt from suffering or from thinking about suffering. 

Suffering being the foundation of a stuck, 
stagnant and sullen mind, 
and mindfulness being the antidote 
of the Buddha nature, 
eradicating everyone's suffering is what 
a Buddha does and is what we should all be striving for. 

Never was there a time when there was 
not a Buddha present on the planet. 
That being the case, 
all of the veneration that is offered to the past 
and present masters is automatically transferred 
over to your own Buddha nature; 
for potential and aspiration is what cleanses 
the open wound of suffering 
that is samsara's wheel of a mind. 

Real life incidents turning from 
momentary troubles to memories to faint 
impressions of the imagination 
to non existence, living life as if all of 
your complexities have been solved 
is the inevitable outcome of seeing all moments 
of existence as empty of results and as empty of direct experience. 

To fulfill your potential is to put an end to suffering; 
be it the combined net result of thousands of years 
of being attached to having everything seemingly under control 
or being too lazy to take the first and last step on the path to enlightenment. 

Every undertaking being a direct experience of a desire 
or an initial thought to improve on what is empty 
from beginning to end, master your life 
through knowing who you are and are not. 

A Buddha and only a Buddha, 
desires which detracts from the happiness 
of other sentient beings is only a distraction 
of samsara's wheel; for reality or the real mind 
is completely ready to work on behalf of the 
greater good of the vast assembly of 
embodied and disembodied masters. 

Taking the first and last step by 
unleashing the ultimate nature of a mindful reality 
that is as humorous as it is sad, 
your direct experience of samsara is complete 
when you listen to the guru from afar 
who is as vivid and surreal as the appearance 
of a Buddha in this world of suffering. 

Closing your eyes and hearing the sound of emptiness, 
the guru is there as the heart is there 
for all of your sentient existence. 

by Julian Colgan (Copyright)
Awake to Buddhahood
http://emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/

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