Poems & Thoughts of Rob Taylor

Poem · October 29, 2025

Paramitas my old friends

The Paramitas my old friendsI’ve come to talk with you again

{The sound of silence}

(P1) A space of openness. (P2) Something arises to us in that space, and engages us in the specifics and distinct form and dynamics requiring its particular discipline. (P3) But with our incomplete vision of this, there is uncertainty and irritation, requiring patience to continue, and not just abandon the discipline toward this development. (P4) Then something clicks, and starts to carry us forward along the energy of this process. (P5) Carried into the fullness of this, we come to connection, being one with the process, and absorption into it - Meditation. (P6) Now, with nothing obscuring the process, with no filters, we see clearly and know what is here, that we are joined with.This allows the proper completion of what had begun. With this complete, our full engagement here is released. And so our energy is more free, which is again open space (P1). So we clearly see openness. Thus, this end is also the beginning. - We start at the end, and we are in the mystery of living - being.But with (P6), we not only see back, but we are also pointed ahead, because what we have completed, we have seen fully. So we know about this particular process. And if something similar or related were to arise again, we are not starting from scratch - we have skill with this (P7). Then upon this base of skill, instead of uncertainty and irritation (P2), we may see clearly what needs to be done, and how to do it - (P8) Vision. So we can then do it (P9) Power. And it is done right.

Now, a special case of vision and power is auspicious coincidence, where they are simultaneous. Just as we are seeing what can be, it is now, in some uncanny coincidence of coordination. We see the possibility (Vision), which then is right there (Power) as what is now. So all of this is in the dynamics of completeing some process toward a result. And there are three possible speeds for that:P1 - P6P7 - P9P8 & P9 SimultaneouslyThus, there is an overall process of development to our being in the world - From awkward, through graceful, to enchanted - Which is a deepening insight into our connection with our surrounding all about us. Around the world, this has been symbolized by patterns of wholeness and balance, that have been called Mandalas - Most basically, a center and a surrounding. This can be felt to be the deepest representation of what we are - What we all really are, beneath, and past the errors and confusion that we have made, and have been taught.So this touches on wisdom (P10), which develops more gradually than those specific processes, that we are forever trying to complete, and to get right.

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