12 December, 2013

The Sign Of No Sign by Julian Colgan

Reducing everything down to consciousness,
what else is there to do but to be conscious.

To be conscious is to be aware of 
the infinite buddha nature that masquerades as
an ordinary and somewhat blunt mind.

Attributing many signs and sayings to
a purely historical buddha,
the real buddha is you as you are.

Attached to the signs and sayings of
a far and distant past, the dharma is no longer
valid if it becomes another source of attachment.

Attaching yourself to the buddha is not the goal
of accomplishment because the goal of a buddha
is to no longer have to have goals.

Consciously above all designations and not having
any one religion to care for,
liberation cannot be formatted into a set code
of conduct or into a series of religious formalities.

Those who think that it can or that it should have
not realized what the infinite buddha nature is.

Too close to notice and too far away to quickly care,
thoughts are mirrors of the Ultimate Reality
and desires are generators of unlimited aspirational prayers.

Thinking and desiring as a Buddha, compose
your own narrations of nirvana.

Expecting no sign or saying from the 
far and distant past to confirm this,
the Buddha is when you are completely at ease
with all that permeates every wheel of time.

Samsara spinning out of time and nirvana coming closer
to mind, find what is always there while looking
in the mirror of self contemplation.

Racing towards nothing that is in sight,
what is spectacular is never out of sight.

Liberated or in turmoil,
the mind is the same.

Sameness being equal, equalize yourself
in the infinite Buddha nature once and for all.

By Julian Colgan (Copyright)
Awake to Buddhahood
emptinessofmind.blogspot.com

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