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   August 2005  

 Resting – Empty – Vast*

Rest the heart in not grasping at all things
that await as bait for provoking desire.
With mindfulness let them go without delay,
seeing naturalness, not clinging to anything.

Thus empty of clinging and attachments
mind is bright, pure, clear, and luminous,
free of burning defilements, beyond flames.
Being empty of all suffering is the truest beauty.

More vastly open than sea, than spacious sky,
nothing can distress or afflict, nothing to fear,
above all sorrow and beyond joy at all hours,
Resting – Empty – Vast is "Eternal Beauty."

* Three Thai words pronounced waang, differing only in tone.
Needless to say, this is untranslatable.

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