Reading the Sutra in the Bog

Reading the Sutra in the bog
Calm with pants around the ankles
Pusing and straining to dislodge the large one
Out it plops
Relief
Now where was I
Ah yes
Egolessness
Nothingness
A stray thought it intrudes
About work, routing and DNS
Watch it
Do not follow
Don’t give the mind the chance to latch onto it
Thinking, explaining, trying to find answers
Simply watch it float by
No effort to stop thinking
Effort is of the I
Strengthens the ego
Simply watch
Be aware
A cloud floating across a sunny sky
Back to the book
Read and absorb
No thinking
Look into it with no thought
Ignorance is knowledge
Coating all it pervades with prejudice
Ideas and preconcieved notions
All of the past
Never in the present
Drop all this
Drop all knowledge
Drop the past
You don’t know
I don’t know
So be open to all
Not a step back before thought
No, we needed thought
Now we can step beyond innocence like a child
Power like a budding flower
Peaceful and true
We have to drop the ego
Look into things as they are
Flush the chain