What Can We Rely On?

All phenomena, including thoughts, are temporary events, and therefore have absolutely no reality. We can’t even rely on words as they’re either interpretations of someone else’s experiences, or repetitions of someone else’s translation. 

Everything passes as in a dream, a memory, an illusion of reality. We never stop to wonder whether things are true; we just follow others’ say-so. Whenever anyone speaks, they’re talking from their own personal dungeon of existence, and we use up our lives following others’ social, religious and political ideologies. 

There is only one reality, and it’s not what we think. It’s something we all have in common, and that’s consciousness. On rare occasions, we may meet in pure consciousness, in an instant ofsilent recognition. 

Through ignorance of this experience, however, we revert to memories as we’re unfamiliar with that pure moment, and can feel uncomfortable. 

The recognition of this ignorance is the birth of compassion,
and reveals the purpose of life.