The truth
does not conform
to clichés
It cannot
be apprehended in
fixed forms
To create
is to render
a challenge
To ideas
that masqueraded as
the truth.
No Leftovers
That which I need most
Is unavailable to me
Not because of someone else’s
Carelessness or lack of love
But ironically,
Because of my own.
Be Discreet
Be discreet
About your feelings
Not everyone is connected with you.
Be discreet
About your opinions
They may belittle someone’s cherished values.
Be discreet
About sharing your joys
Not everyone has the heart-space to accommodate them.
Be discreet
About your wins
They may make someone feel like a loser.
Be discreet
About your losses.
They may allow someone to exploit your vulnerabilities.
Be discreet
About your power
Its potency is lost on exposure.
Be discreet
About your world…
Because you don’t live in it; it lives within you.
#Ten Year Challenge
It’s never too late…
Nor too early
To review your actions
And set them on a course
Of a meaningful life
Meaningfulness…
Is conscious and purposeful living
Where your actions
Are a Systematic Investment Plan
That will yield a freedom
That is whole, independent
Fearless and courageous
Full of faith and confident
Cheerful and kind.
The Right Effort
Effort is conscious action. It is however important to understand where and at what point must one start making an effort. For example, if I try making an effort to be a ‘good’ human being, I may begin my search with the question: What are the qualities of a good human being? How do we spot or identify a good human being? How does a ‘good’ human being act? How does he meet life’s challenges? And yet, despite gathering ‘data’ that answers these questions, all my efforts at being good somehow seem superficial. I feel the need for a truer transformation. I somehow feel certain that what is called for is a single change, that will by inherent virtue, change all that is a misconception; like how darkness disappears in the presence of light. The primary effort that one therefore needs to make is to come to know that which is flawed, that which is untrue. It’s in coming to know the untrue, that truth asserts itself.
Knowledge alone can support effort. The effort is right when it’s objective is the removal of ignorance. We must bear in mind what we’re seeking is not a prosthetic gain, but a restoration.
Manifesto
Our economic system is flawed.
Our political system is flawed.
Our education system is flawed.
Our society is flawed.
Because they thrive on falsehood
They need lies for profit, for leverage
And in and through their design
All work is sacrilegious and a curse.
Poverty is immanent in wealth
We only graduate in degrees of ignorance
And man is bound to man in a wretched dependency.
The root of all this is the individual
Fallen from Grace
He seeks his Self
He tries to know who he is
By being who he’s not (a sum of different parts).
Filled with deluded notions of grandeur
He procures. He makes. He sells.
And he is celebrated for the profit he makes.
In this blinding business of generating profit
He is left with sight, but loses his power to perceive.
With such an impairment
He can find worldly sustenance only through profit
He woos gain
And fears loss
He is wide in mirth
But shrivelled in sorrow
He wants only part of what life has to offer
He has no faith in the whole.
And the Truth cannot be anything but whole
The Truth Is.
It need not be created
The Truth cannot be measured by numbers or degrees
It is all-pervading and all-embracing.
Truth does not grow
It does not favour
the rich over the poor
the strong over the weak
the haves over the have-nots.
Infallible in its system
It awaits our homecoming
If only man could find solace
in the knowledge that it’s okay to not know…
And simply accept his being
Forego the contrivances of “who” or “what”.
And celebrate am-ness…
Then Truth would speak
And Truth would need
That which only Truth can give
Truth would ask
And Truth would answer
And Truth would accept
What Truth had made.
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