Awake here now
after we slept
then awoke
so we are
awake
how much
not sleeping
nor sleepwalking
but awakened
woken up
somehow
more or less
here and now
in this moment
not before nor after
here in this very body
with breath flowing
in and out again
and in and out
continually
in cycles
awake
and aware
a real possibility
to embrace what is
observe attentively
reality’s creation
in one’s body
and heart-mind
awake here now!
“Balancing up and down” — extensive calm
A few pointers to be awake here now
“Whatever [one] frequently thinks and ponders upon, that will become the inclination of his mind.”
“A master of the courses of thought… will think whatever thought he wishes to think and he will not think any thought that he does not wish to think.
“He has severed craving, flung off the fetters, and with the complete penetration of conceit he has made an end of suffering.”
— Majjhima Nikāya – the middle length discourses of the Buddha, translated from Pali by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi – Dvedhāvitakka Sutta, 19.6, p. 208 and Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta, 20.8, p. 213-214
Grateful for the beauty awake here and now
