Every Where
and
Every Thing
No Where
and
No Thing!
- Pamela

What is mind?
It is the rattle
inside an empty box.
- Jaspa

Mind is longing
Mind is exquisite longing
Mind is longing for Dharma
- Nicole Harstead

Haiku

High wind, heart racing
Is the room empty or full?
Both – so stay sitting.
-Ursula

Intellect and spirit
The tool for the freedom of all beings
At once a weapon of mass destruction.
-Zoe

mind is not
emptiness and fullness in
this moment
silence is here ever present
always now
always love.
-Mukula Grace

Mind is excitable
and when excited
becomes “fizzy”
Bubbles of thought rise
seemingly from nowhere.
At first there can
be a lot of bubbles,
but usually they subside
sometimes into dullness
for some emptyness
but the bubbles will
be back.
FIZZY.
-C.D. Compact Disk

Mind is view
Mind is vision
-Rinpoche

What is Mind?
One
clay raining river flowing
-anon

Power of delusion
-anon

Thoughts blow through mind,
Like wind in leaves.
Mind observes wind
like thoughts in leaves.
The storm passes.
-Jenni Mc

ME
-anon

just this,
so they say.
with the LOT.
-Andreas

You are the ultimate magician
Creating all from nothing
And when you stop
Nothings lost and you get bliss in knowing.
-Maurice

Mind is a television set
relax..............................
or watch your favourite dream
on DVD.

I experience mind like a
dark storm
gusty wind
baby breath joy
dive into clear blue sea
belly laugh
warm bath
bush fire
-Teresa

WHAT IS MIND?
A delicate instrument,
requiring a balanced string
too tight – sharp, will snap
too loose – flat, dull
What reference point to play this instrument in tune?
Teachers, but they can only point, hint at
what the mind is, play their mind songs.
Your direct experience will expose the symphony
within.
-Beth

Plagued by rabbits, tormented by
monkeys, a shooting star flashes then
disappears leaving only remnants of
investigative stardust and me preferring
to be poetic than right.
_Ranald

mind is the wind
and the tree
and the sound of...
inbetween
gate gate
-anon

the mind is a gift of
unlimited potential
a disciplined mind
leads to individual
& resultant collective
peace
an undisciplined
mind is dark &
scary & leads to doom
-Gabe

What is mind?
Question like a stone
dropped into a murky
pool
I see in to the depths
and see nothing in a
hint of sunlight
-anon

Mind is like nothing, but is.
Mind is not, but like everything.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Mind is my love to all
-anon

Dynamic play of awareness
Sensing all objects & events
Profoundly deep, yet
intrinsically empty
This is my mind, I think.
____________
Oh mind, mind,
where the heck art thou
mind?
-Bess Hope

What is mind?
Lost in language
The Rinpoche's koan sits
Breathing with the wind.
-Andy Baird

Consciousness & unconscious
form & formless
interconnected
-anon

Mind is the seeker and the sought
Grasping after something clever to say
Easy enough to spout what it's heard
But where is it now?
PHAT!
-Diane Pitman

An unsparked flame; burning
the fuel of
experience
creating the feeling
of a separate “me”; in place of
heat, light or smoke.
-Rob Williams

Mind
is when the
walls of mind fall down,
the roof of mind lifts off
and there is only
the roar of the
wind in the trees.
-Chani

Web of experience
Dust is mind
vacuum vigorously
and empty bag
-Tony

Mind is atmosphere which catches water
and dust then rains down and blows soft and strong
but there is nothing solid and it is as still as space and
empty of itself.
-Andy McIntosh

Mind, in its natural state, is
like the sun-filled sky,
clear, bright, luminous & empty.
______________
Covered by layers of
clouds which obscure
its true nature.
-Jan

Sometimes mind is happy
sometimes mind is sad
Sometimes mind is angry
an everchanging parade
-anon

the cinema
of the mind
projections of
heaven or hell
watching
-Shakti

Fire
Creating more fire
Consuming itself
in heat and light
-Amanda (from Darwin who was trying to keep warm)

Mirrors reflect
the cat in the hat
at a distance.
-Don

What is Mind?
High & wide & hard to define,
mind, my shining & rippling interface with life.
At times a jester
at times a jinx.
My confusing and comfortable home.
-Wendy Leewood

OBSERVER, TRANSLATOR, AUDIENCE, CRITIC
BLOODY BULLDOG
-anon

Experience in the moment,
Fruition and creation both.
Influenced by-
interconnections
like the tides.
-anon

Just as a mirror reflects the world around
but cannot reflect itself
so mind can not perceive itself
except in terms of what it perceives around it.
-Maria

Mind is like
full of young child potential
innocent,beautiful and vulnerable.
Have to take care
-Rinpoche

#1
peace chatter pain
sun wind rain
always once again
#2
tilopa was my father
naropa was my mother
they're fucking up my head
I don't mind!
-Guy

Mind – the sum of all
experiencing.
Here and now
clear sky.
-Margaret

mind
is
a potential
to
evaluate
interpret
translate
compare
record
retrieve
recollect
imagine
-anon

Infinite space into which thought
arises giving form
-Francis

Rinpoche asks:
What is mind?
I don't know
A coarse mind
I think I glimpse
but I have no idea
what's below.

Rinpoche asks | What is mind?
I haven't got a clue | perhaps
this reflects | the poverty of
my view.

As space is filled with matter
My mind is filled with chatter
As empty space, unobstructed
Mind, I think, empty, unconstructed.
-Stuart Lord

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