Our Leaders (Influencers) Are Not Enlightened

This is the world – and the age – in which we live.

Our leaders and their media representatives select partial truths, and never truth itself because they have an agenda which we select and believe. We either side with the limited choices presented to us, or we don’t bother. As long as we are influenced, we submit and react, and are caught up in an unenlightened narrative of confusion.

We all have agendas that we decide are true.

I am not a teacher, but I have an agenda 🙂 My agenda is that, after decades of religiousness, I’ve come to the conclusion that religion – or being bound – has nothing to do with realisation. In fact, religious stories distract from direct, raw experience of nowness, making followers into intellectual reactionaries.

Religion is said to be the door,
but how many become house-bound.

The world in which we live has a stranglehold on us
as we are led to believe the truth, rather than know the truth.

As the Buddha said, “Don’t take my word for it … ”