Serving The Dead Or Alive

A poem on inward process

serving the alive is more like serving the process serving anything one is engaged with it could be thinking (imagination), cooking, practicing a skill, learning a new thing, etc. with attention, we are serving the alive.

serving the dead serving a past image serving the self-image serving the ideas of oneself serving the ego-mind serving the thinking-mind in inattention, unconsciously we serve the dead.

serving the thinking process can be an alive process but serving the thinking-mind is more like being run over by thoughts unlike an active thinking process which is more of a curious open state of being rather than the closed state of being run over by thoughts

while being attentive to being run over by thoughts might open up curiosity; naturally ego-mind hijacks attention its strength is the existing inertia the inertia of being giving into inattention.

perhaps in attention there is “intelligence” arising the brain-heart connection restoration (?) intelligence naturally wouldn’t serve nonsense being attentive is perhaps the way to free us from the inertia of robotic slavery.

can we even save the thinking-mind aka the self-image or a dead image of oneself? can any of the thoughts save a dead image? is it even required? serving the ego-mind is like getting stuck in an infinite loop perhaps a correction is possible if one can see the error for what it is.

serving the process is nourishing serving the ego-mind is wastage serving the dead or alive.

This inattention breeds problems, and the solutions of the problems are still sought in inattention. If one has a problem, and one listens to the problem completely, totally, without trying to find an answer, without rationalizing, without trying to find an escape from it, but lives totally with it, then one will see that there is no problem at all. The problem arises only when there is no attention. — J Krishnamurti