No Handrails

Memories of the past,
a product of mind,
visions of the future,
a product of mind,
attention in the present,
still a product of mind
bound by concepts,
generating meaning,
solidifying the self,
imprisoned by dualistic mind
creating subject and object.

When the knot of attention releases
conceptual grasping is relaxed,
the prison of dualism opens
and awareness rests in natural joy,
in no place, at no time.
Not the future, present or past,
transcending time and space.
Not this, not that,
not both not neither,
Nagarjuna wasn't blowing smoke.
There is nothing solid to hold onto,
the ground assumed is empty space,
the world 'out there' is based on mind,
the psyche in here is based on mind,
pass through the gauntlet of terror,
to non-establishment and spacious freedom.



May 9, 2001 (1 of 1)