A small child
hides in my heart
and firmly believes
in fairies and gnomes
in the good in people
in everyone and all
in peace and love
recalling all good
letting go the bad
always open to give
and receive what is
without concepts
plans or schemes
free of I and mine
dissolved the self
to individualized
consciousness
spiritually free
happy what is
always best
for you and all
a small child
in our heart.
“Iech körenes Glöggli” — I hear a little bell
Awareness, it’s like this — free from conditions
“Things change. So we are open to change. We’re not demanding that things change in any way that we want it to or that when it’s at a peak that we can keep it that way. That’s impossible. But you can be aware when you’re at your best or your worst, when you’re feeling good, inspired, and enthusiastic or despairing, depressed, and disheartened. This awareness is your refuge. Awareness of the changingness of feelings, of attitudes, of moods: stay with that, because it’s a refuge that is indestructible. It’s not something that changes. It’s a refuge you can trust in. This refuge is not something that you create. It’s not a creation. It’s not an ideal. It is very practical and very simple but easily overlooked or not noticed. Whenever you’re mindful [aware], you’re beginning to notice: it’s like this.”
“There is the unconditioned; therefore there is an escape from the conditioned. So then apply that to the here and now, to this moment. Time is an illusion, the past is a memory, the future is a possibility, but now is the knowing. In this knowing position, … escape from the conditioned is possible. We’re not getting rid of the conditioned, but we no longer react out of fear and desire to the conditions that are impinging on [us].”
— Ajahn Sumedho, The Sound of Silence, p. 209 & 244
Once upon a time a small child, and still a little kid at heart…
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