The Hills Are Alive With the End of Frazzlement

(A Tibetan dharma inflected rewrite song – dissolving the metaphorical goat or sheep – unaware continuance, and instead awakening the subconscious with gentle awareness).

Tibetan Buddha Dharma refers to six realms or mind states that give rise to all the variety humans experience. One of these is the animal realms/ unawareness. An inner reflection of mind awareness based culture, recognises the value of a human life with the capacity to use the inner awareness, and makes full use of this opportunity. Transforming previous unawareness (subconscious conditioning). This arises good conditions and favourable future circumstances, for continuing with the practice of awakening mind from mistaken attachment to the cause of its suffering and delusion experienced by this.

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The hills are alive with the end of frazzlement, with the quiet that dawns when the mind stops chasing its own tail of self‑adherence.

The hills fill my heart with the stillness of shamatha, each ridge a level, each valley a softening, each breath a reminder that the turbulence was never real.

My heart wants to rest in the first level, where the mind finally sits without scattering. It wants to deepen into the second, where frazzlement loosens like mist in morning sun.

My heart wants to open into the third level, where joy arises from simple staying. It wants to steady in the fourth, where clarity and ease walk side by side.

My heart wants to shine in the fifth level, where subtle dullness is recognized as just another mask of self‑adherence. It wants to sharpen in the sixth, cutting through fog with gentle precision.

My heart wants to soar into the seventh level, where attention becomes a mountain bird— effortless, unshakable. It wants to settle in the eighth, where the winds of thought no longer sway the flame.

My heart wants to bloom in the ninth level, where shamatha becomes a lake without ripples, and the illusion of “I” is seen as the last frazzled echo of a dream.

I go to the hills when the mind contracts. I know I will hear what I’ve heard before— the Dharma whispering that self‑adherence was the only storm.

The hills bless my heart with the end of frazzlement, and I rest once more in the truth that awareness was never broken.

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The Lonely Goatherder of Awareness — A Dharma Song Focused on Removing Ego Attachment and Fear

High on the inner hill where thoughts rise and fall, the lonely goatherder calls— a clear, bright sound from the part of no-me that has never been afraid [awareness].

His voice travels through the valleys of mind, touching every appearance: the restless ones, the tender ones, the forgotten ones. All of them turn toward the call.

The children of awareness— the playful, curious aspects— answer back. Their voices carry the innocence that ego once covered with fear.

Travelers on the inner road— old habits, karmic echoes, the ones carrying burdens— pause and listen. They remember they are not separate from the goatherder’s song.

The small girl in the pale pink coat— my vulnerable self— hears him too. She answers softly, and in her answering fear loosens.

Her mother [inner wisdom awareness]— the wisdom aspect— smiles with recognition. She knows this duet is the beginning of dissolving the inner walls built against love.

More voices join: the ones who cling, the ones who hide, the ones who tremble, the ones who pretend. All of them step onto the path as the goatherder calls.

The whole mandala sings— not in harmony at first, but in honesty. Every voice is a phenomenon brought into awareness, no longer exiled by ego’s fear.

And in the spaciousness of this inner chorus, the teaching becomes clear:

Your task is not to seek for love, but to find the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

The barriers are not enemies. They are voices waiting to be heard, waiting to be welcomed into the song.

The lonely goatherder is no longer lonely. He is the shepherd of inner being parts, guiding them gently toward the truth that fear dissolves when ego-self adherence dissolves, and ego dissolves when everything is allowed to sing.

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…just a funny picture. Animals feel loving kindness too. They too share this planet with us.

Notes

On lessons on cultivating the inner wisdom of discernment.
When we learn to really trust our inner being and give from there, we are supported by this inner connection and awareness. [Whatever we choose to call that].

The thing is just to start, wherever we are. All is now, and go from there, one moment of deeper recognition at a time and making use of compassionate skilful means, realising wisdom awareness emptiness, until there is a wonderful warming fire blazing that can dissolve the ice-blocks of self-adherence attachment.

Specifically in inner spiritual practice to a “me” and “mine”. Instead we learn to let go into recognition, developing this habituation of mind which leads into direct realisation of awareness – a blessing which pervades all sentient beings, still trapped in samsara’s suffering.

The six paramitas encompass the entire path and intertwine. The first of the paramita’s is “generosity”. At a deeper level- of becoming aware of and connecting into the limitless ocean of inner awareness, which as a human sentient being we can do.

The six paramitas are also called the six perfections. They are perfected on a direct perception of non-dual awareness of mind. They are practiced as a vehicle to habituate mind to this practice. Mind experiences what it engages in on a relative level. The causes of happiness must be planted in the mindstream.

The six paramitas (or transcendent perfections) are a foundational roadmap of six spiritual practices designed to tame the mind, dissolve mental obstacles, and lead a practitioner on the path to enlightenment.

The word paramita translates from Sanskrit as “that which has gone to the further shore,” symbolizing the crossing from a shore of suffering and confusion to the shore of liberation. As taught in texts with detailed resources, here are the six perfections:

The Six Paramitas

• Generosity (Dana): Giving freely without expectation of return, serving as an antidote to greed and stinginess.
• Ethical Discipline (Sila): Refraining from harmful, destructive behaviour and upholding wholesome precepts to protect others and oneself.
• Patience (Kshanti): The capacity to endure hardship, setbacks, and provocation without falling into anger or resentment.
• Diligence / Effort (Virya): Finding joy and heroic persistence in positive, virtuous actions without burning out.
• Meditative Concentration (Dhyana): Cultivating a calm, focused mind free from distraction, dullness, or emotional turbulence.
• Wisdom (Prajna): The profound discernment of reality and the nature of phenomena, recognizing that all things are empty of inherent, independent self.

The practice of the paramitas accumulates merit and wisdom. These are the two wings, that are necessary for a practitioner, utilising the practice of the middle way (free of the two extremes), to journey to the other shore. At which stage, both samsara and nirvana are directly seen; (all phenomena appear but are empty, empty but appear, like a rainbow in the sky). There is neither samsara nor nirvana to attach to – when awareness recognises its true nature, (non-dual, indivisible).

Consider: ignorance (unawareness) is a dreadful master.
All pain and suffering arises from an untrained mind, not recognising itself as awareness in which all appearances to mind manifest.
Ultimately, compassionate skilful means method is indivisible with wisdom awareness realising emptiness, the nature of all phenomena (outer and inner) appearances to mind. By bringing all appearances to the mind onto the inner aware path of practice, this habituation of practice method stabilises mind for deeper awareness recognition.

A practitioner focuses on releasing dualistic perception, by cutting through the root of one’s own mind. In other words, observing what the mind is doing (the study of the four mindfulnesses for example), and releasing perception into wisdom awareness, born of deeper insight reflection on the true nature of all phenomena (of self and other).

In this way, all appearances to the mind can be our teacher; providing the recognition opportunity to release those appearances in awareness, rather than stay falsely captivated and misleading mind, from its awareness recognition within.

Use a method around the practice you are cultivating, this brings sharp clarity.

Similarly to use an analogy, you can put a method around suffering. Some pains dissolve in awareness quickly. Others, may take many washes (repetitions) of awareness to release the self-adherence (clinging) clothes of dualistic attachment.

In dharma practice, cultivating awareness of the natural law of phenomena in the inner world; generate the bodhicitta in the mindstream, arise inner awareness to dissolve the suffering: compassionate skilful means recognising wisdom awareness emptiness, (realising the root of suffering is self-adherence to fixations in the mind). All phenomena of self and other is impermanent and empty yet appears, like two sides of a coin. The practice of generating bodhicitta, is waking up swiftly, in order to help other beings trapped in mistaken perception, in samsara, (or the six self-adherence mind states of cyclic existence).


Consider the following words from the Vietnamese Master Thich Nhat Hanh

“Letting go
takes a lot of courage.
But once “you” let go,
happiness comes
very quickly.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh