I’ve planted my fair share of selfish seeds
That grew into a karmic tangle
I confused my wants with my basic needs
Until my dharmic spirit felt strangled
But when I stopped, the thought-mud
settled down and cleared the air
The grasping silt sank and the masking clouds cleared
Visibility became boundlessness
An indescribable view without a viewer
Indefinable and new, uncovered without a pursuer
Our shared essential nature is the most ordinary blessing
Where our potential is much greater than whatever we’re possessing
To do whatsoever is necessary
For whomsoever is in need
To be a forever emissary
Together planting seeds
Of stillness and compassion
With such clearness we can’t imagine
Where forgiveness can just happen
If what’s within us gets examined
Let’s quit pretending to be split
And start befriending our inner critic
Who can be an insufferable tyrant,
Or a supportive disciple
If we stay vulnerable and silent
Without distortion or denial
With a light touch attention is present
A gentle hush comprehension is transparent
Then our centerless source of clarity is boundless space
Tenderness dissolves false identities in groundless grace
What a relief to finally cease and desist
No more beliefs, only peace, and nothing to resist
A deceiving squint of our ego in time
Can no longer convince our lidless third-eye
That sees, without a seer, into unbroken emptiness
That can be, now and here, in open receptiveness
Quiet calm and resting in completeness suchness wholeness
Unbiased aplomb nesting in the sweetness of kindness’s closeness
Enfolded dimensions reveal and ask us
To remove our blindfolds that conceal this vastness
The observer is the observed
The subject/object duality once hellish is moot
When we nurture and persevere,
And don’t neglect reality for selfish pursuits
Why trade away sacred repose?
In loving service for every being?
Why be betrayed by the hatred of those?
Who would hurt us with misattributed meaning?
For fleeting phantoms of a fictitious future
Competing tantrums from ambitious suitors
Choosing the chooser of banal misconception
What a confusing abuser installed in perception!
The gentleness of lovingkindness compassion
Morphs and transfigures undoes and unfastens
All clinging and attachment to the misery of separateness
By bringing our fragments back into infinity’s wholeness
– Colin Farish
