Digest Number 400

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While more or less on the subject, I thought I'd toss in the following,

which - if carefully examined - covers the entire ground... Have fun...

 

free and easy: a spontaneous song of indestructible wisdom

by Gen'dün Rinpoche

 

happiness is not to be found

through great effort and willpower

it is already present in open relaxation and letting go

 

don't strain

there's nothing to do or to undo

whatever momentarily and adventitiously arises in body-mind

has no real import at all

has very little reality at all

why identify with it and become attached to it,

passing judgement on it and on yourself and others?

 

far better simply

to just let the entire game happen on its own

springing up and falling back again like waves

 

without 'rectifying' or manipulating things

just noticing how everything vanishes

and then magically reappears, again and again and again

time without end

 

it's only our searching for happiness

that prevents us from seeing it

like a vivid rainbow one runs after but can never catch

or a dog chasing its own tail

 

though peace and happiness have no existence

as some actual place or thing

they are forever at hand -

one's constant companion at every instant

 

just don't be taken in by the apparent reality

of good and bad experiences

they're like today's passing weather

like rainbows in the sky

 

wanting to grasp the ungraspable

you exhaust yourself in vain

but as soon as you open up and relax the tight fist of grasping

infinite space is right there - open, inviting, comfortable

 

use this spaciousness - this freedom and natural ease

don't look anywhere else

 

don't go off into the tangled jungle

searching for the elephant of great awakenedness

when he is already at home

quietly resting in front of your own hearth

 

there's nothing to do or to undo

nothing to force

nothing you have to want

nothing missing

 

emaho - how marvellous

 

everything just happens of itself

 

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