you sit on a hill <br />perhaps in the shade below <br />a kind tree <br />(or perhaps on your chair <br />near your window) <br />or in the open <br />on a gentle summer day <br /> <br /> <br />and you view what is before you <br />and all around <br />the full expanse of it <br />what nature spreads out <br />within and all about; <br />as your own mother <br />might have set the family table <br />for dinner <br /> <br /> <br />and you come to simply see <br />you do not come with a theory <br />or all your conditioning and your beliefs <br />(can you do it?) <br />and you come without <br />all your presumptions and assumptions <br />(can you do it?) <br />and you come simply to see <br />all that is <br /> <br /> <br />and you see the beetle before you <br />and the grass <br />and perhaps the bee flying past; <br />and you view those thoughts, if any, <br />that arise <br />(there is no suppression here, <br />no control, <br />but simply observe): <br />and you see <br />the hills that roll forth before you <br />and the trees and the clouds <br />and perhaps the birds <br />trace patterns in the sky <br />and perhaps a plane zooms past <br /> <br /> <br />but you simply see <br />you are a witness <br />and you observe only <br />with no words <br />no labels, no names <br />with no ideology <br />or thought patterns; <br />with no judgment <br />and no drawing <br />on all your traditions <br />and your beliefs and your conditioning <br />and you see <br />what is before and around <br />and you feel the air stroke your cheeks <br />the feeling simply as it is; <br />and you see the world before you <br />and all your thoughts and you within it <br />and you make no memory <br />and you make no comment <br />and you make no links <br />and you make no judgment: <br /> <br />you observe; <br />you see it all <br />as it is <br />for you come simply to see <br />all that is<br /><br />Raj Arumugam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-see-it-all-as-it-is/
