I Will Show You The Way

From the Buddha

To the Guru’s . . .

All proclaim,

“I Will Show You The Way.”

 

They say,

If you do such and such,

You will get

What you seek.

 

And when you do not,

They tell you,

“Just keep doing it.”

 

Can any man

Be shown The Way?

 

Yes.

If The Way

Actually works.

 

Is there truly

A Way

To get all that one seeks?

 

There is.

But its nature and location

Is magnificently contrary

To what one has been told.

 

When guru’s

And spiritualists

And priests

And speakers say,

“ I will show you the way,”

What they are truly saying is,

“I will give you practices.”

 

And they make good

On their promise.

 

And thus,

There are legions of humans

All around the world . . .

Practicing.

 

Do they get anywhere?

Anywhere at all?

 

Well, no.

But it was never about getting somewhere.

It was always about . . .

Practicing.

 

Ask the 50-year meditator

If he has gotten anywhere.

 

The only place he has gotten

Is to a higher skill at meditating.

 

Understand this:

Realization

Freedom

Or Enlightenment

Is Not

A Skill.

 

There is a Way

To everything that one desires.

 

But it is too . . . concrete

For one’s liking.

 

It is too . . . direct

For one’s DNA.

 

It is too . . . immediate

For one’s timeline.

 

It is too . . . truthful

For one’s insincerities.

 

Namaste.