The search for Truth must being with an honest desire for the Truth. This means setting aside what you previously may have believed or thought in favor for the Truth. Too many people go looking for a greater truth and do not follow through, settling for half-measures and easy answers. It is easy to spot them because they are so absolutely sure of themselves; they claim to know the exact word of the Truth and believe it to be spoken and written.
The Truth is neither spoken nor is it written. It takes both the logic and intuition of a whole human brain, a the passion and patience of a whole human soul, and the good works and lessons of a whole human life time to notch out even the smallest sliver of the Truth. And this sliver of Truth cannot be found by following any one given scripture or any one given teacher – it is only found by someone who hungers for the Truth and who is humble enough to accept it.
Many of those who find Truth within their life-time are revered by their religion as saints. Others who find Truth within their life-time has had their life cut violently short by those who misunderstand. Yet still others live quiet lives, never being known by the greater world, but patiently changing that world around them through their teachings and works. However, you cannot want even one of these things and desire Truth as well; the desire for Truth should leave room for nothing else.
This does not mean you need to live on a mountain top, eating only a teaspoon of rice at a time and meditating twelve hours every day. The events of everyday life, when aided by meditation or prayer, moves us more swiftly towards the Truth than strict asceticism. If it is temptation you avoid, it is better to give into that temptation and understand that thing without fear than to always dread the next time the shadow of temptation falls upon you.
Why is it that so many men who proclaim their own virtue at the top of their lungs are often dragged down by scandal and gossip? They believe the power of their own voice will chase off any specter of temptation. It doesn’t. They believe that judgment upon others for their own misdeeds will avail them from their own. It doesn’t. They believe that they can hide their secret temptation indefinitely, avoiding public embarrassment. They cannot. Only being completely honest and humble can do these things, but pride often keeps these “men of moral superiority” from being honest or humble, and leads them down the twisted path of hypocrisy.
The search for Truth is one river with many tributaries. Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and others all feed into the one river. Each of these tributaries run like fast rivers, each with those who will claim that theirs is truly the only way. But none compares to the one river, which runs so deep, so fast, and so true as to make the others seem like a trickle of melting snow. Truth itself is like the ocean; it has no end. As such, we should not judge some who travel on the tributaries into the search for Truth as being less or greater than others; all feeds into the sea and there we are all the same.
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Life is constant flow, eternal newness, however it is a choice whether or not I go along with it or against it. I don’t know if i could ever stop being part of it for that would be very interesting indeed, if possible, maybe that’s part of what the god’s debate about at times.
But anyway, everything is states of mind, or energy that are always changing and flowing. The trick to life is harnessing the power of this colossal energy without losing yourself, killing yourself, losing hope, or going off the deep end.
How often can most of us just go meet new people, or embrace things which are different and create harmonies or songs with them without losing our self. Despite the pain of changing, a persons ‘negativity’ can generally be considered their resistance.
How often can we love that which is ‘unlovable’ in our paradigm? Some call that act death, a word which truly needs more love.
I believe a true master has tamed this energy matrix and has become a god, and that is the real truth, not just discovering it, but actively mastering it.
Hello Pieter,
I’ll be honest; I’m having a bit of a hard time understanding this comment. I can’t really reply to something that I am not able to really understand.
Controlling reality isn’t the Truth that I speak about in my post above. In fact, I would say attempting to control anything is the first step to losing control.
Those who go against the flow of life or balance will often find themselves drowning. It is a choice you can make to go against the flow, but making that choice is a symptom of misunderstanding the nature of reality.
Namaste.
I’m heavily into what seems to be a pointless activity called philosophy that’s why it’s so hard to understand because I’m not really speaking from a point of wisdom.
But I tend to veiw it as inspiration. You can’t control it, or how it is meant to express itself, yet you have so many masters like composers who create inspired music of all kinds when asked, architects, artists that change styles and vibes, writers that write stories of a kind, then switch to highly logical wordy papers, or just change vibes (Like how some seem pleasant, others brainwashing or angry and etc) and etc. I’d term flowing with the river allowing that inspiration to flow without feeling you need to control it, but however there does seem to be a skill involved where you somehow do control it to manifest as you feel/see it in your heart.