I awoke on the subject of biting my fingers
to find that I'd been nibbling them for several hours
since midday when I'd thought, "OK, 1st day of '87
and I haven't bitten them yet."
I smiled at myself; these resolutions and siestas.
Bhagwan's dictum to "watch the thing you want to drop"
came to me and I reflected that I hadn't held the thought,
I hadn't kept watching. Then I wondered "how do you
practice holding thoughts and I thought of meditation.
Meditation is exercise for the mental muscles
to tone them to hold a thought.
Hence the mantras and the koans.
Its the fruit of exercise that gives you the power.
Power to remain awake on as many things
as you have developed mental muscles to hold.
And once you can hold what ever thought you wish,
everything which CAN be changed,
comes within your grasp.
Gallagher
01 Jan 1987
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —