.
Making room in your mind
for life without your mind
closed shut,
allowing all you are
to see you
where you are,
you feel the free light
behind you
is inside you,
sensing Death,
Mind, the Divine,
are all the same.
What's in a name?
Death is the rest.
Open up, give it room,
let it breathe
the fear right out of you;
it is what's left of you,
it is you, free of you,
knowing you
like the truth
you know
when laughing
overcomes you.
~ V.B. Price
from Death Self
photo Bayon temple at Angkor Thom
2 comments:
"Laughing nearly overcame me" in the first two lines. I turn 69 in a couple of weeks and am already "living life without my mind" - or much of it anyway, but not in the sense that V.B. Price means, I think... It's the aging process - memory banks are failing, cognitive and comprehension fading. I'm in geezerland now, where the workings of the mind are less and less a problem - by nature :) Not in the sense of purposely "letting go" of the mind, which I found impossible anyway...
And love the lines - "allowing all you are/to see you/where you are", and - "It is you, free of you, knowing you"... Beautiful...
_/\_ Namaste
More than two years since I left the above comment LOLOL And here I am still stumbling through life with less of my useful mind... :)
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