How to cope with wavering thoughts?
Versatile are flying clouds,
Yet from the sky they're not apart.
Mighty are the ocean's waves,
Yet they are not separate from the sea.
Heavy and thick are banks of fog,
Yet from the air they're not apart.
Frantic runs the mind in voidness,
Yet from the Void it never separates.
-Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
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Definition for void:
Emptiness or Shunyata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunyata
"..All phenomena of existence are marked by emptiness: not arisen, not destroyed, not unclean, not clean not deficient nor fulfilled."
I.e. devoid of rising, destruction, uncleanliness, cleanliness, deficiency and fulfillment.
The monkey mind swings from tree to tree,
looking for the fruit of its desires,
innocent of the true nature of its origin.
Yet existence is not what the Buddha speak of.
For He spoke of the Four Noble Truths:
1) Life is full of suffering.
2) Attachment and desire is the cause of suffering.
3) Eliminating attachment and desire relieves suffering.
4) The Eightfold Path leads one out of suffering.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths
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