01 Meditation Panel Preface.indd - United Nations Day of Vesak 2013

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Possess without the Possessor
If you feel tired from possessing things,
And are always aware that you are the owner;
It is obvious that there is ‘I’ and there is ‘mine,’ “” “”
There is a ‘Self’ appearing in this possession. .
If you possess things and realize they are illusion,5
And don’t grasp it as yours, “”
And your mind perceives such possession
in the right way, .
This is the possession without the ‘Self.’
Buddhist Philosophy and
Meditation Practice
Therefore, whenever you possess things,10
don’t let the ‘Self’ appear,
The good consciousness will prevent it.
The awareness and wisdom .
also appear in this possession.
This is the right way to possess. 15
This is the great art of possession:
Possessing without holding the fire from hell,
Possessing with emptiness,
And see emptiness in possessing
This is a joyful way to possess thing20
Let’s possess thing in this way. 28
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Buddhadsa Bhikkhu. Buddhadsa dharm kam klon: sen tang sookwamsuk yen (Buddhadsa’s Poetry: The Path to
the Cool Happiness). (Bangkok: Sukkhabhabjai, 2010), p.74.
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