Thought is old and can never discover
the new. When thought realizes that it
cannot do anything, then thought itself
comes to an end. Therefore there is a
breaking through of the limitation of
consciousness.
The Logic of Contemplate
On the other hand,
thought can do plenty.
Thought dwells past
and may rule memory.
Thought embodies belief
and may give rise to grief.
Thought can take a thing fluid
and alive and turn it into a thing
solid and dead, such as doctrine
that becomes dogma that can kill.
The thing fluid and alive is consciousness
and thought dulls consciousness whenever
it gets stuck in old habit of mind or heart and
takes the hand wide open, and makes of it a fist.
Arms Wide Open is no mere verse from a children's song
but instruction for forgiveness, the gauzy veil of atonement.
