A Hard Lesson To Learn

People believe in words, rather than experiencing their meaning. Even if they’re good words, we argue about their interpretation. Words are not reality.

There are lots of words, but only one constant truth, which is that which is reading or hearing the words. Pure consciousness.

If words are not reality, they cannot be the ultimate truth and so, from this perspective, they are a lie – a trap. Polishing a fake version and thinking it’s real is the oldest deception in the world; in modern language, the term ‘golden calf’ is a metaphor for materialism and false priorities that people blindly obsess over at the expense of absolute truth.

When the public perception of life is completely disconnected from actual reality, we have to be careful, as anything we say will come into conflict with people’s polished version of themselves.

People judge life based on a staged production, while being completely unaware of the dull confusion this causes. All we can do is to point out how the mind works, and how easily the consumer is consumed.

The world exists in an illusion of reality, and realising this arouses the compassion needed to maintain the healing process on the path to enlightenment. Constant connection to the illusion of suffering maintains the path.

Our actual path is beyond religion and rituals,
shifting from external compliance
to internal transformation and direct experience.

When it says “Let go”, let go.