A Moving Process

For years I assumed
that this body was Home
and inside of that,
the living room called 'self'.
This should give you an idea,
of what a fool I've been!

Through the power of awareness
and it's accompanying insight,
the solidness of the body overturned -
just a denser set of sensations.
And when the imputations of a self
give way to the boundless, infinite Void,
fear arose like an abandoned child
without a home, a mother, a world.

I've come to realize that
the sense of self as a bodily home
is a Norman Rockwell fantasy
and that I've always stood in that
which is beyond location or center.

So a process has begun of
getting accustomed to another Home,
which has no address
and no paths leading to it.
The nature of all,
the three bodies of Buddha,
our ultimate residence,

The practice of inherence in freedom
is how one does the packing
of taking residence in the Transcendent.
Welcome Home!



June 30, 2001 (1 of 1)