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To Be, You Must be Free

What keeps you occupied?
What keeps you up?
What keeps you going?

-Desire.

Designed to breed dissatisfaction
And to keep you perpetually chasing fulfillment
Your desires thrive by robbing you of peace.
You experience an emotional hunger, thirst and want
And therefore, by extension also, anxiety, fear and anger
Believing that these are the price
You must pay to reach bliss and tranquility.
You believe that the achievement of peace requires ambition.

But tranquility is a heaven that is yours to claim
It need not be sought through a climb
Or through consumption.
Peace is a way of life
Unencumbered by conditions
On that way, the mind is quiet.
It has learned how to be still.
On that way, work is an offering
Not an endurance of enslavement.

On this path love alone exists
Freed from desire
You can now simply be.

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Journeys

Do we pass through?
Do we arrive at?
Do we return to?
Or, do we revert to?

Perhaps the true purpose of change
Is to reach the changeless.

This is a passing through…
An arrival…
A return…
And a revert to…

A journey re-acquaints you
With yourself.

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Free Your Thoughts From Language

Meanings change…
Through use and abuse
When language becomes a device…
When it becomes perverse and aberrant…
We need new ways of thinking
Outside of the form and syntax of words.

We then, must leave behind cleverness
And descend to the deeper place of feeling
Hardened and inert language no longer lives there…
You need to begin afresh…
When was the last time
You felt something you couldn’t describe?

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The Truth is in the Paradox

Are you conflicted between
Absolute moral correctness
And the relativity by which you are
Bound when fulfilling your role?

Or

Between a love that has
Stood the test of time and
An attraction that is tidal and torrential
And hard to explain?

Or

Any such fracturing in your being
For what you had thought was unassailable
As the true, the good and the absolute?

Truth stands before us in plain sight
But we’re not able
To accept it.

And so we frame theories
And philosophies and credos
To guide us through the darkness.

But the human being is not a machine
It rarely learns what you
Set out to teach it.

Also, the discovery of truth
Is not contingent on
Making the right choices.

It’s not the reward
For a life piously lived.
Truth is the ultimate reality.

The truth is a light
That dawns on you
When you let go of darkness.

There’s nothing to choose.
Where you stand
Is a choice already made.

Forge ahead fearlessly
Fulfil what has been started
Don’t seek to escape the conflict.

The truth does not lie
On the side of the winner
Victory and defeat cancel each other.

The truth is in the paradox.

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Get Real

The fancier the garb on the body
The less refined is the weave of the mind.

The plusher the house
The more vacant the home.

The wider your social circle
The greater is your need for a friend.

The more jet-setting your lifestyle
The less in touch you are with life.

The more degrees you acquire
The more fundamentally ignorant you become.

Life cannot be lived
Through the medium of consumption.

The void you experience
Must be entered, not filled.

In the void, you must instate your faith
In this void you must meet with wisdom.

In this void you will come to see
That refusal is the final word on elegance.

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Let the Haze Clear

If there is no time
Then there is also no distance
Why then, does what is so close,
Seem so far… like it waits
Somewhere in the future?

Do we arrive to our
Desired state…
To a change for the better…
By our doing?
Or by our seeing?

Am I already there
Where I wish to be?
What I need then is not
Some grand plan of action
What I need is for the haze to clear.

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Progress is an Escalating Lie

We live in a world of make-believe
Perpetually creating lie after lie
To stay afloat…
We have to work hard
In order to get somewhere
Because we were not anchored in the truth…

A lie hinges on the establishment
Of cause and effect.
Continuity and progress
Are the ultimate achievements of a lie.
By design it is bound eternally
Within a tedious chain of action and result.

Ubiquity is the face of truth
It is uncaused, independent and free.
It is never the outcome
Of any striving or effort
It is not a discovery;
It’s a realization

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What The Problem Demands

The solution, it is said
Exists in the problem.

Let that seep in.

Sometimes, rushing into a solution
May aggravate the problem
Creating a dissonance.

Sometimes, it’s not a solution
That is the need
But evolution…
Not a resolving
But a rising-above.

Change what can be changed
Endure what can’t.

Do what can be done;
Surrender to Grace what is beyond you.

A problem sometimes requires
More than a change.
It requires a transformation.

Change is external
A transformation is internal.

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From the Imagined to the Unknown

Every life-shattering event
Liberates you from the unreal;
From your world of thoughts
And ideas and opinions;
From your pointless plans;
From your trivial pastimes
And your petty anxieties.

We must be grateful
For destruction, for loss.
For they are an opportunity
To access a higher truth
And a greater life…
To leave behind the imagined
So that we can abide in the unknown.

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To Gain Knowledge

To gain knowledge
One must seek it
Beyond the known.

To gain knowledge
One must learn to wait
Rather than rush to arrive.

To gain knowledge
One must learn how to be
Free of the striving to become.

To gain knowledge
One must be willing
To let go of their assumptions.

To gain knowledge
One must be prepared to get rid of
That which thinks it knows.

To gain knowledge
One must create the space
For the new…for transformation.

To gain knowledge
One must learn to remain silent
When feeling compelled to speak.