28 August, 2012

Dhammapada The Saint


  The Saint
Complete inside and out,
the Saint finds freedom
in having no fixed and determined
conception of freedom.
Always moving towards
a fixless and undetermined openness
towards life in Nirvana and Samsara,
the Saint leaves his or her mental abode
whenever a sense of possessiveness 
takes over his or her heart.
Like a flock of migratory birds,
the Saint's mental abode is everywhere
and at the same time is nowhere.
Knowing what freedom is,
despite the hardships of the Path,
the Saint ventures forth into the Unknown,
where everywhere is nowhere
and nowhere is everywhere.
Having mastery over being open
minded and narrow minded,
the Saint is as patient as time itself,
and is capable of peacefully handling
the limitations of Samsara with as much endurance as the Earth.
Wisdom is the Saint's mark of accomplishment
and everything which the Saint does is
based on the principal of Calm Abiding.
Having renounced the world that is the self,
the Saint prefers Reality over the
appearance and disappearance of self imagined identities.
Unified with the Buddha,
the Saint transforms any environment
in which he or she visits into an
oasis of serenity,
leaving every mental abode as cherishable
as the long awaited perfection of Nirvana.
Copyright - The Blue Cross And Shining Sunset Academy
Author: Julian Colgan

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