Chasing for Mental Peace vs. Detached from Mental States
⁘ “You identify with the mind. You need it in a particular state and framing to feel satisfaction and happiness. However, it's forever pushed and pulled by the environment and your internals. What do you expect? What follows is a perpetual chase for your preferred framing and feeling. Then be not a slave to your mental states. Let the mind be, as it may. Today broad, tomorrow narrow. Today clear, tomorrow muddy – and forever changing in reflections.”
You identify with the mind.
You need it in a particular state and framing
to feel satisfaction and happiness.
However, this mind of yours
is forever pushed and pulled by the environment,
forever reframed by the churning
and brewing of your internals.
This shapeshifting phantom you turn
into a nest for your identity.
What do you expect?
What will follow from that?
What follows is a perpetual chase,
attempts to stabilize it into your preferred framing.
Ever to be changed again by the external world,
by your internal world,
and in the process – friction, suffering.
Then be not a slave to your mental states,
shackled, tied by your assertion of identity.
Let the mind be, as it may.
Today broad, tomorrow narrow.
Today clear, tomorrow muddy –
and forever changing
in reflection to what it encounters.
As it may happen – never mind.
For there is awareness
beyond the flux of the mind,
and there is consciousness
beyond the states of awareness.