THE ONE PRACTICE
Dear Friends, in our world of increasing complexity and contradictions, it may become challenging to choose the particular practice or type of meditation that may serve and secure a calm and clarity; a realisation of reality; purification of the mind from psychic irritants allowing perennial peace and enabling full and final Freedom.
However, from a Buddhist appreciation and perspective, one practice has been offered that brings about this possibility.
This is the Meditation Practice of the Foundations for Mindfulness – Satipatthana.
My verse below expresses this point.
John B.
THE ONE PRACTICE
When a Buddhist Monastic
Or a Buddhist Practitioner is asked;
What is your practice?
There is only one answer to give;
There is only one answer to offer!
There should be no need to think;
No need to remember, no need to remind, no need to revise;
What has been my practice?
What is my practice?
What will my practice be?
There is only One Practice;
The Practice for all time;
The Practice for any time;
The Practice for no time;
The Practice beyond time!
The Practice given by the Buddha for all those that see the worth in;
The Purification of the mind of beings; the ending of all sorrow and lamentation;
For the disappearance of pain and grief; for reaching the Noble Path;
And for the final Realisation of Nibbana is;
The Satipatthana – ‘The Four Foundations of Mindfulness’.
