The Answer

What is the answer? First of all, who asks the question?

After you've thought about that for a while, the answer might make sense:

Clear seeing, calm abiding.

That's it. That's all there is. The rest is practice.

You were expecting more? That's all there is! It's enough!

Take up these two wings with strong determination. They must balance each other. 
Awareness must be tempered by equanimity.

Clear seeing

Awareness of things as they is, not as we wish them to be, or wish them to not be, or as 
others may wish. Through practice, see beyond aversion, and beyond craving. See 
beyond the self, and see things as they is.

Calm abiding

Neither hold on to, nor (stolen from silli artie at hotmail dot com) push away. Strive for the self which is equanimous and non-
reactive. Compassion is the key, and it must grow from the center out to others.

Witness the Rose, both petals and thorns.

Clear seeing and calm abiding does not mean to withdraw -- it means to experience 
fully, completely, with awareness and compassion. Balance awareness and clarity of 
mind with equanimity and strength of heart. As a more abiding center grows, it calls for 
and creates the container for more awareness. As awareness sharpens, and more of 
the unconscious is revealed, it calls for a more abiding center to hold it.

Namaste-

artie
The Answer
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