I am not here to give or receive, not to enjoy or suffer,
nor am I here to avoid or indulge or deny desire or fear.
I would like to just be here
and experience truth
and remember that bodies are not real.
The information received from the senses is not the ultimate reality.
I’d rather you not be anything in particular
I’d rather that I not be anything in particular
I’d rather just see you as you truly are in reality and allow you to be who you truly are, regardless of what seems to happen and remember that in reality, there is no you or me nor a world to contain us.
I acknowledge desire, and attraction and affection
I acknowledge fear and separation
Bodies experience desire, fear, union, separation, rajas, tamas, sattva, birth, death, growth, and decay.
I’d rather be in tune with Om, not desire, or fear, either my own or anyone else’s.
I am not afraid to look or feel like an idiot, nor am I afraid of bodies expressing and experiencing desire or fear, nor am I concerned with internal or external judgment or what names internal or external voices call me.
Only Om.
Om is all.
Practice for its own sake
Not for a body or set of habit patterns which looks, feels, smells, tastes, or sounds beautiful to myself or others
Not for any particular state of being
Not to fulfill desires no matter how noble, exalted, despicable, simple or mundane
Only to remember that what appears to be real is really not; the person that I thought myself to be for so many thousands of years in the past, present, and future, does not exist, nor does the world that I have thought him to live in.
I can only put forth effort and not put forth effort in an attempt to maintain earnestness, Ahimsa, Brahmacharya, Tapas and pray that I can maintain these things and welcome the uninvited, unwelcome, unasked, unpredictable, and spontaneous when they come, as surely they have come from God; surely they are God. Surely, they are me and mine, regardless of what the senses tell me, regardless of the pain or pleasure they may appear to cause to the body and/or mind, regardless of the violence they appear to express, regardless of the virtue or vice, ignorance or illumination, happiness or unhappiness that they appear to experience and express.
Let us all
Move beyond the need to feel like we have given anyone anything in order to justify our existence.
Beyond the need to manifest on any gross or subtle level in order to be content
Beyond the need to fight other people and beings to survive
Beyond the addiction to putting forth stressful, violent effort to sustain our lives
Beyond indulging in forecasts and plans motivated by personal desire for pleasure and fear of pain
Beyond any feeling of entitlement based on pain we have endured or actions we have performed or any characteristic we exhibit
Beyond the erroneous idea that we are bodies
Beyond the need for so much administration and accounting
Beyond the false notion that anything is traceable and that anyone or anything can be held accountable for suffering, chaos or pain
Beyond the feeling that we are unworthy of pleasure that we experience
And beyond the feeling that we must pay for pleasure through enduring pain
Beyond the anger and violence that are inherent in the way of life that currently prevails
the way of life that leads one to believe that he is entitled to pleasure as a result of pain and sacrifice and causes him to feel that he owes or is owed due to actions that he has performed or characteristics that he has exhibited
the way of life that causes him to regard what is in reality painful as pleasant and convinces him that things and a certain way of being will make him happy when actually it won’t
the way of life that leads him to believe that love is clinging and attachment, when actually the exact opposite is true
the way of life that gives him a false sense of who he is by incessantly telling him softly and loudly and at every level in between that he is a body and a person and that what is material is most important and that what is false is really true.
Let me say no to this way of life not out of anger and frustration, but from a place of love and compassion, Ahimsa, Brahmacharya, and Tapas, accepting the exquisite discomfort of the experience of the supreme desire and the primal fear.
Only what liberates us from fear and desire and wrong ideas is “good”.
Discard all traditional standards.
I know nothing. I have nothing. I am nothing.
Yet I am.