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Hanging Out

I love hanging out
In public places
Anonymously.
My cares and worries
Disappear.
It’s like being on vacation
In my own town,
And I get perspective
On my life.

As I notice
All the people around me,
Thoughts pop into my mind
From the ocean of oblivion
In my subconscious and deeper,
And if I remember to bring
My notebook and pen,
The thoughts turn into
Writings like this one.

Sometimes I find someone
Who can share
My experience of “hanging out.”
We can sit together
Without conversation,
And silently absorb
Our surroundings.
It feels
As if our beings
Are momentarily joined
And our life energy
Expands into the environment.
In our anonymity
The psychic space seems to shift
And the people around us
Seem to be happier.
I wonder if Jesus
Did much hanging out.

©2000 PoemsintheKey of Life
www.wynnfree.com ––Wynn Free,
From Eternity to Here wwdcp@poetic.com

Buddhism’s Bodhisattva vow to
“forego Nirvana until all beings are enlightened” subtly contains a koan:
”Until I see all beings as
enlightened, I am not enlightened.”

Stated in the positive, “As I see all beings as enlightened, I am
enlightened.” Or most simply,
“All beings are enlightened
(have Buddha nature).”

With this perspective, distinctions between individuals are transcended,
and helping becomes simply being
our true nature.

As Chuang-tzu the Taoist sage wrote toward the end of his life,
“To search for principles was in error. My own nature is sufficient.”
––Unknown

" To affect the quality of the day,
that is the highest of arts.
Every man is tasked
to make his life,
even in its details,
worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."
––Thoureau

"Many men go fishing
their entire lives
without knowing
it is not fish they are after."

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves."
––Carl Jung

"You are not happy
because you are well.
You are well
because you are happy.
You are not depressed
because trouble has come to you,
but trouble has come
because you are depressed.
You can change
your thoughts and feelings,
and then the outer things
will change to correspond,
and indeed
there is no other way of working." ––Emmet Fox

"The root of a bulb
which shall produce a white lily
is an unsightly thing; one might look upon it with disgust.
But how foolish we should be
to condemn the bulb
for its appearance
when we know the lily is within it.
The root is perfect after its kind;
it is a perfect but incomplete lily,
and so we must learn
to look upon every man and woman, no matter how unlovely in
outward manifestation; they are
perfect in their stage of being
and they are becoming complete. Behold, it is all very good."
–– Wallace D. Wattles

The mind can proceed
only so far upon what it knows
and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never
prove how it got there. All great
discoveries have involved
such a leap. ––Albert Einstein

"We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate,
it oppresses."
––C.G. Jung, 'Psychological Reflections'

Life is not a Process of Discovery.
It is a Process of Creation.
We keep waiting for God
to tell us, show us --
and God keeps waiting for us
to tell HIM, show HER.
You see, We’re waiting
for the One Who Waits for Us.
Stop waiting. And stop asking.
Start declaring.
Life is not a question.
Life is a declaration.

"You use the mind
nonstop…
but when the mind quiets
there is no more
seeking for God.
God finds you."
––Sri Babaji 1997,
from The Initiation.

"Everything else can wait, But the search for God cannot wait."
––George Harrison