I grieve to see this world a blaze as much as any.
To see inferior men perverting the law to their corrupted will.
Consider:
Every one of our world teachers was born into the worst of times. Each lit a light that would not shine until long after they had past on.
Yet after a time they DID shine and will shine on until an end comes to mans time here.
We stand now together at what appears to be the end of our world. Each of the great teachers of mankind stood where we stand now.
Each in their own way turned their back to this world. Opened a door to a higher plane and stepped though it.
Leaving behind only their teachings.
Those teachings are an invitation to join them. Each one of them in this way striving to save all that can be saved.
"That which you are seeking is seeking you."
Our fore fathers and mothers knew hells we cannot imagine.
Some having no inner light to guide them became demons in their time here.
But most strive to put away their anger, not to pass on their pain, but shelter those near them from their innermost fears and sorrows. We put on a happy face in the face of a snarling world.
We are trapped none the less in Samsara. (The realm of intelligent beings.)
This is the Moral plane where good and evil fight for the souls of men.
Evil offers all the pleasures of this world, but at a price, take the offer and you will never love again. Your best efforts will only churn lust in your heart. You cannot forsake mankind and live life as a whole man or woman.
Against all the pleasures of this world stand the sages who would limit those pleasures and confine them within
"What is right"
So..What is right?
The truth is written upon your hearts"
(J.C and his first responders.)
The sages are only trying to teach us to read what is written there.
Trust me they are not made happy to simply hear their words repeated.
They want us to read the text and know it whole and complete.
They seek though their teachings to help us rise above that snarling face of a world
that simply does not love us.
But what is more they tell us how to sooth that savage beast within us that carries our spirits upon his unwilling back.
Our lower natures want us in charge as little as a wild horse welcomes her first rider.
To tame is not to suppress, suppression only breads rebellion and violence.
To tame one must first understand the forces involved.
Understand the justifiable fear of that which you seek to tame. Alleviate that fear and for this, the horse will love you. For all creatures hate fear.
This applies to the deepest realms of our own beings. We must approach ourselves and our fellows in love that takes away all fear within and without. Then we can safely hope for some success.
But how can we make such a enormous transition? How can we be fearless?
The answer is simple, but indeed not easy.
"Once a man has learned within his heart what true fear and trembling means, all other terrors glance off him harmlessly."
Here is the fear that should inform all men's hearts.
That we should offend against the Great Maker simply to get along and belong.
That we fail to read the truth that was written there to guide and support us us in all our endeavors.
"The original nature of man is Good. But it becomes clouded by contact with Earthly things and needs purification before it can shine forth once more in it's native clarity
This "purification" is undertaken by strict and continuous self examination least we harbor any secret opposition to the will of of God."
I-Ching
Without exception the sages truly believe that we each have our truth within us. Hand made by one who cared enough to make each of us different so we might recognize our need of brotherhood.
Might learn from our differences how to better read our own hearts.
Just an intuition, But I think God knew it would be no easy thing to bring an ape to dine with angels. But how else to elevate the Ape or give expression to the angel?
So never ask how much you owe as it is more than you could ever pay.
Simply join in the feast and try to bring a friend to the table with you. ":O}
I spent the first 20 years of my solitude begging the heavens for something, anything to do.
I simply would not look upon the obvious. I wanted a task outside myself, a means of making a contribution. A way to prove myself to the world.
Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a vocation. Most of us find fulfillment if we answer properly to our calling. I mean everybody else seemed to have something to occupy their time.
Twenty years before it occurred to me to start looking at myself.
An American Guru once observed in a talk that as we start out in life it rapidly becomes apparent that we each have our strengths and weaknesses. As people love strength and hate weakness we turn our attention to our strengths and work diligently to improve what we are best at.
For a time we make can make real progress. But usually sooner than later we hit a wall.
Like a batter that can't hit a curve ball. We meet our limitation face to face. And it shames us. our weakness shames us and we wish to look away to look again upon our strength and take comfort in what we can do.
But now we know our strength has a weakness.
This moment confronts every man who ever lived, again and again as we move though our lives.
"Do I retreat into the false comfort of my strength or do I except the demotion and begin work upon what was remedial, but left undone for to long?
It is very difficult to turn away from the outer world and give one's whole attention to removing ones faults.
But this is the work that brings improvement and can over come even a cure ball."
:O}
