Words On A Page

Do “I” have teachings for the world?

There are no teachings.

Words appear on a page.

They disappear from the mind.

 

A mind empty of thoughts

Is all that needs to be learned.

 

A compulsion to teach

Serves only the self.

 

The mind that moves toward helping human beings

Is a mind that helps only itself.

In helping itself

It drifts further into illusion.

 

Can it be said that a human being who is given a teaching will be “helped” by the teaching?

If “helped,” the help does not last long.

For one forever returns to their default ways of understanding.

Taking quick and temporary detours toward “teachings.”

 

The Mind that seeks to convince

Is borne of ego.

 

If the Master understands anything at all

It is that he is alone.

He may choose to release words

Knowing all the while, that they will be not understood.

If in a rare case they happen to be understood by something other than one’s mind,

Then the understanding and the ripple effect of such understanding will take place.

This will happen of its own accord.

 

There is no such thing as relationship.

There is only a communion between heart and words.

 

In moving through life,

Clarity rises over the hills in the distance

Like a sun that illuminates the holes in one’s understanding.

 

With clarity comes the realization that all things in a human life are but hollow goods manufactured by the mind.

Pleasure leading to pain.

Happiness leading to unhappiness.

Teachings leading to confusion.

Relationships leading to attachment.

 

Man’s robust desire to improve, to progress, and to do

Shackles him to a prison with invisible bars.

 

Reading a passage that speaks Truth,

He smiles and hails, “Ah yes . . .”

Then returns to his default way of living.

 

In a way, there is nothing to learn.

In another way, there is everything to learn.

Which way it truly is,

Depends upon the spirit and the nuance of one’s definition of “learn.”

 

The Way is not That way.

The Way is not This way.

The Way lies in deciphering one’s true motivation for seeking The Way.

 

Here today.

Gone tomorrow.

This is Truth.

 

Requests arrive in the mail . . .

Offering millions . . .

To teach individuals

To teach groups

To teach companies

What is there to teach?

What precisely do they believe they will learn?

 

An “improvement” of some sort, perhaps?

A greater bottom line?

Become more “loving” or more “patient?”

Motivating employees?

Becoming great?

 

It seems logical that this would work.

Logic is a car with three wheels.

 

Outrage against the unserious masses.

Disappointment in the prescription-seekers.

Such things await he who seeks to “teach” the world.

 

Here today.

Gone tomorrow.

This is Truth.

 

Happiness today.

Unhappiness tomorrow.

This is Truth.

 

Fortune today.

Misfortune tomorrow.

This is Truth.

 

Is it important to understand this?

No.

 

If you reply to “my” messages on Twitter,

You hear only your mind and ego.

If you prescriptionize “my” messages on Twitter,

You seek only the pleasure of improvement.

You and “I” are both speaking to a ghost.

 

Ego is not.

Pride is not.

Being proud of having no ego is not.

Being proud of having no pride is not.

 

Intelligence is not.

Knowledge is not.

Being proud that “you do not know” is not.

 

Compassion is not.

Love is not.

Being outraged that these are not, is not.

 

Improving yourself is not.

Becoming a better person is not.

Frustration that you do not then know what you should do, is not.

 

The Truth is what remains

When what is not . . . is no longer.

 

Namaste.