Oh, for a single clear
unencumbered thought,
a single perfect thought,
perfect in shape
and size
and duration,
illuminating every nook
of the chaos and clutter
that strains the house
of my mind,
engaging with it
eloquently,
marvelously,
Not turning away
or excluding anything
nor elaborating upon
or prolonging anything
that secretly longs
to come to rest.
Rest. Yes.
Rest here.
Put down your burden,
whatever it may be.
Burden of memory,
identity,
past and future,
actions
and consequences.
Let this perfect thought
be the still eye
of the storm,
the still point
at the center
of the cosmos.
Unimpeachable,
unrepeatable,
incompressibly
perfect.
Even in this imagining of it,
I see
how I move
through ignorance
and duality,
pushing away
what I think is
causing problems,
not seeing
that the pushing itself
is an expression of the problem
that is not a problem.
Nothing is real
and therefore everything
is perfectly deserving
of love.
Complete in itself
because complete
in its selflessness.
My dear ones,
come to rest in me.
I know that you
are easy to love
because you are none other
than myself
and myself is none other
than Buddha phenomena,
Buddha nature.
And Buddha is no thing,
no person,
no fixed identity.
Any attempt to turn inward
and fix
is seen
even in its arising
as an expression
of that which has no fixed point,
is no fixed thing.
How marvelous.
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*Jan 2025*