Empty Mindfulness

Allen Ginsberg

Empty Mindfulness
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“First thought best thought”
—Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

“Surprise mind”
—Allen Ginsberg,
Disembodied Poetics

“catch the boyish
that walks”
—Allen Ginsberg,
“Big Eats,” Cosmopolitan
Greetings (1986-1992)

Sitting in my bedroom — reading internet news about 2012 end of the world

Muhamundra poetics exercise — suggested by Tibetan Kagyu teacher

Twenty-one-syllable lines — beginning with my neurotic confusion (Samsara)

Concluding finally — by being grounded in “ordinary mind” (Dharmakaya)

Floating thru thought forms — Buddha voice that talks with me walking now inside my lucid dreams

Sooner or later letting go — yawning shrugging then bored with my same old spiel

Looking at my face — buried in my pillow, dreaming in my dream whatever, whenever

Sitting with empty mind — simultaneously thinking feeling spontaneously

Giving my vacancy some spirit and space — accompanied by disillusionment

There’s no disillusionment tho — if I'm already disillusioned by suffering

Being less obsessive — and more clear-minded about my daily synchronicities

Sooner or later letting go — letting my spontaneous mind compose itself