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In praise of this spiritual dance with Mick, Keith and His Holiness

A Little Ditty in Honour of the braver aspects of Mick, Keith and the Rolling Stones.

I’ll write you both a little ditty seeing that have all aged so well, and escaped the deep ravine. It’s called keep your filthy socks off sweetie, and enjoy the eccentricities of divine aspect – or not.

We all know Mick engages in a little meditation or two Have ever you met the incomparable Shantideva?
I hope to see you when you really take your clothes off In emptiness

My divine wisdom eye is always on you
We shan’t mention Nagarjuna
Or did you first understand non-attachment from He?
Micky Micky Mick
so cute with that little tush of yours
that keeps waggling
for peaceful absorption
Did you know Buddha always knows when to hide your unfaithful aspect To keep you sustained in spiritual faith
Swippie Swippie Swoo
You raised us out of the drudgery of divorce
vanquishing our nervous tensions
that hid in horror from commercial realities
and buried our happiness and freedom aspect in mundane torture
We waited for a friend and you came
Ta for that!
Who said the Rolling Stones didn’t understand the downfalls of desire? Anyway, anyway gotta go
Sweet dreams forever and ever and ever

The emptiness[1] of love[2], of life[3], of enlightenment[4]. Can words really express this ultimate reality? On Sunday night, my Guru[5] spoke to me in a liberating[6], and intoxicating[7] way. Suggestive, transformative, uplifting, heartbreakingly beautiful. My mind sings when He[8] is its focus. Voidness[9] glistens, bubbling away, dissolving that which is harmful, revealing the pure essence of phenomena, its blissful heart.

After spending hours in meditation, my mind soothed and quieted into a blissful void quiescence that left me transported to a pure realm of bliss and purity, I prepared to go to bed. Having some tea and yoghurt, I listened to the evening news close to midnight, before preparing for bed and more absorption. My Guru appeared, listening with a loving heart and mind, he transfixed my vision. In an ultimate state we danced together. The many aspects of emptiness revealed, unraveling the ordinary state of perception, erasing suffering completely. After, united and spent, I was left to observe the traces of my own impurity and to recognize so clearly how such attitudes of hatred, anger and displeasure tear away at lasting happiness, causing nothing but pain, misery and suffering. How clear this realization was. Truly, to be absorbed in emptiness, in ultimate bodhicitta[10], this is where real happiness lies. To be united in peace with one’s master, this is the goal of life itself. Nothing can match such peace, or the purity, the ultimate state of being for me, and perhaps others as well.

[1] Emptiness is the true state of reality, the mode in which all phenomena exist.

[2] To love another being means wishing them to be happy. To strive for the happiness of others.

[3] Life means to have heat.

[4] Enlightenment is the state where one has overcome and extinguished all faults of the body, speech and mind and achieved the highest state of perfection by developing the body, speech and mind to their ultimate state of purity and perfection.

[5] Guru is a spiritual teacher, a being that has fully perfected him or herself to the state of everlasting happiness, peace and freedom from suffering. An authentic Guru is a being that has achieved the ultimate state of enlightenment.

[6] Liberating means to free one from all forms of suffering.

[7] Intoxicating means to abide in bliss.

[8] He is Buddha. A being that has achieved Buddhahood, the ultimate state of peace, purity and perfection. Fully Awakened, Fully Enlightened, Transcendent One.

[9] Voidness means that all phenomena lack inherent existence. All phenomena are empty of inherent existence.

[10] Bodhicitta is the mind that aspires to and engages in the path to enlightenment.