A cause, a passion, a focus

Poem:

You should care for the sweet nature of your mind and take care not to bombard it with nonsense. Don’t sit in heavy traffic, don’t argue with anyone, don’t watch a world war classic, don’t watch TV, don’t watch the news. There is a way of doing things that does not disturb the prana. Every once in a while you should stop eating. Your stomach flora may need restructuring. You can sit in quiet and listen to the sound current on the right side of your head. Not eating, holding semen and meditating is like hoarding gold. An open inner eye makes fasting easy and the reverse not eating opens the inner eye. At the same time long periods of no sex makes meditation easy or the reverse long periods of meditation makes not having sex easy. The trinity actually is probably just fasting, celibacy and meditation, not the nonsense they tell you at church. It’s interesting that inner harmony naturally can lead to decluttering. I could execute a further reduction in books, clothes and CDs. By decluttering the basement you could have a guest room. When you have three sittings in the morning, one in the afternoon, and two in the evening, you greatly increase your chances of God consciousness, you could end up with it all the time. Even Thomas Merton thinks contemplation is just habit. Despite the dark night of the senses you could just by chance end up with God. Sitting like Buddha may seem strangely familiar! When you get older to prevent  rapid aging they recommend you take a cause or a passion or a focus, that’s why I prefer a burning passion that melts down my head and leaves me for dead. DS Poem October 8, 2018 New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton page 232, The night of the senses Page 235, the Gift of Understanding Sixty: A diary of my sixty-first year by Ian Brown page 90, ... a cause, a passion, a focus #thomasmerton #newseedsofcontemplation #aging #passion #ianbrown #sixty #decluttering #emilydickinson I knew that I had gained (1022) Emily Dickinson I knew that I had gained And yet I knew not how By Diminution it was not But Discipline unto A Rigor unrelieved Except by the Content Another bear its Duplicate In other Continent.