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Meditation Month Day 17

 

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PRACTICE PROMPT Look through the eye of not knowing. When we look through the lens of what we already know, the world seems fragmented. There appear to be billions of separate people and countless unrelated objects. What happens when we look through the eye of not knowing instead? Does the world begin to feel like an undivided, mysterious presence? If you sense even a hint of this presence, notice how, in that moment, there is no inner conflict. This presence, without struggle, is what people call “peace.”

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Via White Crane Institute \\ Allen Ginsberg's AMERICA

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January 17

Today's Gay Wisdom 2018 - Allen Ginsberg's AMERICA America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.  America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.  I can't stand my own mind.  America when will we end the human war?  Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb  I don't feel good don't bother me.  I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind.  America when will you be angelic?  When will you take off your clothes?  When will you look at yourself through the grave?  When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?  America why are your libraries full of tears?  America when will you send your eggs to India?  I'm sick of your insane demands.  When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?  America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.  Your machinery is too much for me.  You made me want to be a saint.  There must be some other way to settle this argument.  Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister.  Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?  I'm trying to come to the point.  I refuse to give up my obsession.  America stop pushing I know what I'm doing.  America the plum blossoms are falling.  I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for  murder.  America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.  America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.  I smoke marijuana every chance I get.  I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.  When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.  My mind is made up there's going to be trouble.  You should have seen me reading Marx.  My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.  I won't say the Lord's Prayer.  I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.  America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over  from Russia. I'm addressing you.  Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine?  I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.  I read it every week.  Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.  I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.  It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie  producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.  It occurs to me that I am America.  I am talking to myself again. Asia is rising against me.  I haven't got a chinaman's chance.  I'd better consider my national resources.  My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals  an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles and hour and  twentyfivethousand mental institutions.  I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underpriviliged who live in  my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.  I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go.  My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I'm a Catholic. America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?  I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his  automobiles more so they're all different sexes  America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe  America free Tom Mooney  America save the Spanish Loyalists  America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die  America I am the Scottsboro  boys.  America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they  sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the  speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the  workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party was in 1835 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother Bloor made me cry I once saw Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have  been a spy.  America you don're really want to go to war.  America it's them bad Russians.  Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.  The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take  our cars from out our garages.  Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. her wants our  auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.  That no good. Ugh. Him makes Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers.  Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.  America this is quite serious.  America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.  America is this correct?  I'd better get right down to the job.  It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts  factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.  America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States

 

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RIGHT EFFORT Maintaining Arisen Healthy States Whatever a person frequently thinks about and ponders, that will become the inclination of their mind. If one frequently thinks about and ponders healthy states, one has abandoned unhealthy states to cultivate the healthy states, and then one’s mind inclines to healthy states. (MN 19) Here a person rouses the will, makes an effort, stirs up energy, exerts the mind, and strives to maintain arisen healthy mental states. One maintains the arisen investigation of states awakening factor. (MN 141)

Reflection Practice is not just about abandoning the mental and emotional states that get in the way of a peaceful mind; it has equally to do with encouraging and supporting all the beneficial states. When kindness, generosity, compassion, or wisdom arises, this is a good thing, partly because it encourages further healthy states and partly because it blocks out unhealthy states. Only one state at a time can occupy the mind. Daily Practice When you are able to arouse the interest and curiosity that characterize the awakening factor of the investigation of states, see what you can do to maintain or sustain such interest. Mindfulness is a supporting condition, as is energy or relaxed effort. It is a matter of taking interest in the phenomenology of the inner life and inquiring deeply into the texture, not the content, of experience. What does it feel like to be aware of what is actually going on? Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and the Fourth Jhāna One week from today: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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