Conversion: Oh Well

I’ve grown weary
Of listening
To Dharma talks,
Weary of talking.

Experiencing,
Being,
This is where
It’s at today.

Developing confidence
Based on experience,
But this confidence
Is not about accomplishment,

Not even about practice,
Nor methods,
Nor doing,
Nor security.

It’s not about
Inhabiting this moment
Or being present
Or similar terminology,

This confidence
Is about peace,
Cessation of worry,
Dropping the discriminating,

Being neither concerned
Nor unconcerned with
Up or down,
Progress or setback;

But just then the nerve jarring grinding
Of a neighbour’s table saw split the air.
Time to cease the rhetoric
And make some noise,
To counterbalance this unearthly clamour!