Alan Watts
Inevitable Ecstasy
Now don't try to do anything about this
Don't make any effort
Because naturally by force of habit
Certain tensions remain inside you
And certain ideas and words drift all the time through your mind
Just like the wind blows
Or clouds move across the sky
Don't bother with them at all
Don't try to get rid of them
Just be aware of what's going on in your head
Like it was a cloud in the sky
Or the crackling of the fire
There's no problem to this
All you have to do really
Is look and listen without naming
And if you are naming never mind
Just listen to that
Now that you can't force anything here
That you can't willfully stop thinking and stop naming
Is only tеlling you
That the separate you doеsn't exist
It isn't a mark of defeat
It isn't a sign of your lack of practice in meditation
That is runs all by itself simply means
That the individual separate views is a figment of your imagination
So you are aware at this point
Of it happening
Remember that you don't know anything about
The difference between you and it
You haven't been told that
You know words of the difference between inside and outside
Between here and there
And no one has taught you
That what you see out and in front of you
Is either near
Or far from
Your eyes
Watch a baby put out a finger to tough the moon
You don't know about that
Just
Therefore
Here it is
We'll just call it this
And if you will hear
The going on
Which includes
Absolutely everything of you