Awareness

[Mornings Son]

from Dhammapada - path of Truth
Awareness is the path of immortality;
thoughtlessness is the path of death.
Those who are aware do not die.
The thoughtless are as if dead already.
The wise having clearly understood this,
delight in awareness
and find joy in the knowledge of the noble ones.
These wise ones, meditative, persevering,
always using strong effort,
attain nirvana, the supreme peace and happiness.
If a person is awake, aware, mindful, pure, considerate,
self-restrained, and lives according to duty,
that person's glory will increase.
By awakening, by awareness, by restraint and control,
the wise may make for oneself
an island which no flood can overwhelm.

[glance left]

I like this single-mindedness of Zen. "Wake up!!" The master, cries. And........that's pretty much it. "Wake up!!!" Once awake (silently aware without anything anymore interfering with that awake/aware state) then....well, then anything goes

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