The opposite is an invention of a mind seeking to escape from the reality, the fear, and the sorrow of that which is. We invent detachment so we can escape from the truth of us being attached, we define and pursue the ideal of non-violence to keep us from discovering the truth of the violence within us, and we fascinate ourselves with the imaginative advent of immortality to keep us from needing to confront the fact of our limited existence.
The opposite does not exist except in our minds. There is only that which is and there is an end to that which is. Attachment can end, as can violence. But to pursue detachment or non-violence is but a perpetuation of that which is - we get attached to the idea of being detached; we become violent in our pursuit of non-violence.
The attempt to escape is itself the bondage. A prisoner is not one who is confined but one who wishes to escape - from a prison, from a job, from a relationship, from life itself. Be free. Be now. Be with that which is.
In search for life's meaning, it is revealing when life itself stares back at oneself, imploring one to help her discover herself and to give her meaning...
Apr 24, 2014
Apr 18, 2014
Today, may I find within myself the love to heal those who hurt, to forgive those who despise, to embrace those who hate. Today, may I choose love above all else. Today, may I freely give all that is needed of me. May today heal my hurts as well, may my heart find solace, my soul find love, my embrace find another. May today find me truly surrendered to thine will and not insisting that mine be done...
Apr 17, 2014
What would you have to say to a character in your dream who asks you, “Will I still exist at the end of the dream?” You might say,”You never existed to begin with” or you may say,”You always have been and always will be a part of me”. Such is also the relationship between what we call as God and what we know as our individual self. This world is but a dream of one conscious being, whom we call by many names. All our struggles, differences, conflicts, miseries are merely superficial, arising and dissolving within this dream state. Just as the dream is real while it lasts, so is our experience of this world. It is only upon waking that one can know the dream to be a dream; it is only upon awakening that one can know the world for the illusion that it is. Arise, awake, discover the truth of who we are...
Apr 9, 2014
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