thoughts, feelings, ideas, images, dreams
are only waves breaking on the shore of your mind

what they tell you can only be of the shoreline

what of the deep

when quiet, be quiet
when aroused exhort yourself
when awake be mindful
when asleep sleep

neither sleep, nor dreams, consciousness nor perception
are yours

neither the deep nor the shoreline
contain you

hold fast to no thing
cautious of nothingness
afraid of nothing

now is the time
to slip easily into each moment
like a sunbeam through grass

1992
for christine