05 February, 2014

Spiritual Poverty for Eternal Release by Julian Colgan


What is the nature of the natureless reality?
A nature that has no nature is a free nature,
for what is free does not strive for what is already at hand.

The self which has no self is of the self of everyone,
being the nature of the natureless reality.
Released from distress due to immediately perceiving
that there is nothing in itself which is innately a source of distress,
projections of the mind are not present to the perceiver
when the build up to there being a perceiver never really took place.

Empty like a bowl that is eternally ringing
though it never began to ring,
what real substance is there to flickering thoughts
that are seemingly coming from within,
but are in actuality as vacant as the soundless sound.

Seeking the buddha nature by hearing the buddha nature,
everything in all realities is an object of enlightenment
because everything contains that which cannot be contained.

Pouring the self back into the fathomless self,
though there is no 'I', there is still 'I'.
Both present and not present,
I am and am not. 

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