Inherent Enlightenment

eric mccarty
2 min readMay 19, 2022
Inherent Enlightenment — Headless Now — Prose Poem — Moca McCarty Photo

Inherent enlightenment:

thoughts are let go, allowed in their particular moment, and then simply an easy return to mantra — that’s the entire process of meditation, nothing difficult in its performance, no effort nor concentration applied. Yet it’s profound in the quality of its experience, leading to depths of stillness not readily revealed to my ordinary state of mind. I’m going to refer to the early Zen master Dogen…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student