Truth Is Not A Strategy

He who harbors a strategist’s mind

Cannot know Truth.

 

Analysis

Behavior

Practice

Goals

Books

Austerity

Plans

Principles

Methods . . .

Such tools

Are of little use

In the land of Truth.

 

But these are the things

That man knows.

 

These are the things

That man has been taught

And conditioned to use.

 

It matters not one’s intent.

It matters not that they are the only tools

That he has known.

 

If the tools are not suited for the task

They cannot work.

 

Man spends his entire life . . .

Searching.

 

He spends his entire life . . .

Failing.

 

Because he cannot shake

The ingrained and embedded notion

Of strategy

And action.

 

It makes little sense

To walk blindly into an open field

In the dead of night

And hope to bump into Truth.

 

And though the possibility is slight,

And almost certain to fail,

It has a greater likelihood of succeeding

Than strategy, practice, austerity, and method.

 

Lost-ness

Is the norm of living.

 

It is not a norm

That need be accepted

Or rejected.

 

It is simply the norm

With almost all human beings.

 

Regardless of whether one is happy

Or sad

Or content

Or anxious . . .

 

He is lost.

 

And so long as he remains tied

To the principles he has learned,

He will drift further into lost lands

And unseen storms.

 

Namaste.