Poetry of living
Keep moving Unless stoic like a tree Or unmovable like a mountain Ego’s drama vortex Will suck you right in So keep moving. Stay in the eternal moment, Where all happiness is, Dart in the world just for a little while To bring gifts of real beauty and truth To catch an idea of how … Continue reading Keep moving and pay attention ~ more on withdrawing your energy from ego’s drama vortex
Attention Attention is awareness Awareness is the premise of real joy. Attention arises when all mental objects are being allowed to dissolve. Even one little object kept in the mind causes innattention or mental sleep. An attentive mind is a crystal clear mind. Only an attentive mind is able to observe. Ability to observe is … Continue reading Attention as the premise of intelligence
Looking at objects, I realize how mind, focusing, turns thoughts into things. Look at any object, any situation, any Perhaps this is the only role objects (all objects big and small, unique and serials, practical and useless, "good" and "bad", possessed or desired, material or mental constructs) have: visible touchable proofs of the power of … Continue reading the world is proof that mind creates
Complete attention shapes perception. Beyond senses, what is happening here now? Complete stillness of body, complete silence of mind. A new reality is being created. A new way of being. Can you feel it? Can you "see" it? ©️A. Garden, Dec. 2018
Everything out of love a simple word like want or must, a certain tone in the voice, a troubling thought, an instinctive reaction, a certain image I see, real or imagined ... enough to distract my attention so I miss the capturing of the moment which is the love. A. Garden, Dec. 2017
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We are not material beings. We are spritual beings in a physical body; in a thing, we might say. A very complex non-manmade ... thing, our body. Why all our preoccupations are material? Why are we concerned the most about things? These illusive fragile ever-decaying always-broken things ... Inner life is where people of … Continue reading Things vs. Inner Life
