Empty-Handed

February 5th 2007 by Sean in poetry, spirituality

Lying in bed, my mind lights up with memories of past experiences. These experiences, once so vivid and real, are now just fragile imprints in the brain. This present moment, so vivid and real, just became past experience. When I try to grasp anything as real my hand reveals emptiness when opened. The flow of time is unceasing. What a miraculous and wonderful thing, to be alive!

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6 Responses to “Empty-Handed”

  1. Andrew Says:

    Specific Image?

    You’re as daft as I am, brother! Was it the mind reliving memory you speak of, while trying for sleep, or a piece of lucid dreaming, transiting the membrane? One cell speaking to another. Tooth imprints on a Corndog. Why question, too succinctly, the origination of friendship? Am so glad you found me!

  2. Dakini Says:

    How very linear! ;-P
    Don’t forget that you can choose to live in the Eternal Now, even while your perspective is coming from this life experience and thus immersed in the collective conscious illusion of linear time.
    But it’s fun to play here, ain’t it?

  3. Andrew Says:

    Dakini, I’m accused of linearality? Guilty.

    Just wanted to know his ‘memories of past experiences’.
    Thought there might be an ember I could blow on.
    But I realize they are most likely ‘now just fragile imprints in the brain’.

  4. Sean Says:

    Leela is my middle name ;)

  5. Andrew Says:

    No way!
    You’re gonna have to explain that one!
    Ever get that thing where you feel that
    Lying on your bed, the world up from you
    Suddenly turns upside down
    So you have to brace yourself
    From flying up into the midnight sky?

    (Sometimes I’m comforted by the roof
    Being there.)

  6. Andrew Says:

    The Tight Grip Of Oblomov To His Couch…

    Or is that ‘Falling Down’? either way…

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