Tranquility
maybe wisdom
no more striving
for any state of being
just be — so obvious
you are, I am, we are
nothing to resist at all
nor attempt replacing
look and see what is
and taking it as such
it becomes an object
is no longer a subject
thing to be addressed
relative in full freedom
detached as possible.
Too busy to meet yourself
consequently wondering
why’s there nobody coming
like crossing to the other side
pushing ahead gets carried away
standing still results in drowning
neither nor brings some balance
from knowledge to experience
from experience to knowledge
where you are, not where you go
feet on the earth, head in heaven
there’s no schedule, no place to go
but many paths going everywhere.
Does everyone sell themselves
it seems in one way or another
ask yourself what do you want
how much ceremony may be
in association and exchange
actually I spent most this life
chasing after enlightenment
realization and mastership
to find in the end simply
being as good a human
as ever possible can be
is more than enough
to keep very busy
utterly fulfilled
tranquil wise.
“Tranquility in action” — harmonics of the heart
Result of conduct — here and now, or later
“Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings…”
“When he says: ‘… everyone who …’ I do not grant him this. And when he says: ‘Those who know thus know rightly; those who think otherwise are mistaken,’ I also do not grant him this. And when he obstinately adheres to what he himself has know, seen, and discovered, insisting: ‘Only this is true, anything else is wrong,’ I also do not grant him this. Why is that? Because … knowledge of the great exposition of action is otherwise.”
“There is action that is incapable and appears incapable; there is action that is incapable and appears capable; there is action that is capable and appears capable; and there is action that is capable and appears incapable.”
— Majjhima Nikāya – the middle length discourses of the Buddha, translated from Pali by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi – Cūḷakammavibhanga Sutta, 135.4 & 20, p. 1053 & 1057 and Mahākammavibhanga Sutta, 136.13-16 & 21, pp. 1062-1065
Tranquility after the ice saints’ last stroke
