Tainted Air

Understand,

He who seeks to Know,

That the air is not as fresh as it seems.

 

Society is a culture.

Disciplines and professions are a culture.

 

What is it that the human being

Has failed to Understand?

 

He has failed to Understand

That the domain he works within

Contains tainted air.

 

The domain has a lingo.

The domain has philosophies.

The domain has phrases that are repeated many times over.

 

Each human that enters it

Becomes it.

 

Each human that enters it

Becomes brainwashed.

 

Each human that enters it

Surrenders his naturalness.

 

Each domain

Is a warehouse of beliefs.

 

Each domain

Is a basement of dogmas.

 

Upon entering it,

The human will do as the others do.

He will begin to think as the others do.

He will begin to speak as the others do.

 

Upon entering it,

He will lose himself.

And become . . .

The others.

 

It is for this reason

That all domains are fraught

With parity.

 

To seek other humans

It to seek untruth.

 

To accept a culture

Is to lose oneself.

 

Truth lies in resisting the gravitational pull

Toward others

And toward the culture.

 

The only True domain

Is the devotion to Truth.

 

One’s path to the Ultimate

Runs through the dark and narrow valleys

The cold and deep rivers

The icy mountain peaks

And the wild and uncharted landscape . . .

Of himself.

Namaste.