The great sage Tilopa
Had few words of advice
May they invoke a
Lifetime of delight
While sitting straight and still
Befitting a state tranquil
“Don’t recall, don’t imagine
Don’t think, don’t meditate
Don’t examine, rest naturally”
Be loosely relaxed without distraction
You’ll see vastness throughout in this non-action
Be free from refuting free from affirming
Free from polluting free from disturbing
No longer rejecting no more adopting,
No hunger and hoping ignoring or doubting
Without attachment
Meditation glows luminous
Without fixation
Creation flows numinous
Inward aggression breeds depression
Outward aggression feeds your pride
Unchecked brutality of subject/object duality
Will stupefy and blind your third eye
You’ll stumble through life to grumble and die
Become dull and bone-dry never to try
One juicy bite of home-grown humble pie
Death will remind you
compulsive clinging is abusive living
Let breath find you
In presence of being an awareness of meaning
In this moment without postponement
And no opponent there is atonement
The closeness of wholeness comes into focus
The stillness of isness that’s already within us
Receptiveness to friendliness in emptiness
Panoramic consciousness is dynamic responsiveness
To a nexus of now, a directness to allow
In an ever-flowing movement of never opposing attunement
The harm of attachment is gone
Your compassionate heart is reborn
In an ocean of openness
In motion and stillness
Expanding in infinite depths
Of understanding in each intimate breath
Wonderous awareness of concurrent realities
Lustrous freshness of emergent totalities
The view from each peak is limitless and unique
In silence there’s alliance with the essence of our presence
In lovingkindness there’s all goodness that reminds us, what’s inside us
– Colin Farish
