Only The Serious Arrive

This world is composed of the Unserious.

Society is created by the Unserious.

Lost in the feverish pursuit of pleasure.

Intoxicated by society’s liquors, and mesmerized by its neon lights.

 

From electronic emails that litter my inbox

To reflexive replies to my writings on social media.

How do I do this?

How do I get that?

Why am I not fulfilled?

How do I get rid of my fears?

What methods do you recommend?

 

The Truth is, whatever a man does not have

Is due to a lack of Seriousness to achieve it.

 

This will incite the legions of unserious humans.

They will protest:

But I have worked hard!

I have tried and tried!

I have sacrificed this and that!

You can’t tell me I’m not serious!

 

There is great luxury in failure.

So much so that society has endorsed this idea, and lifted the failing man upon its shoulders.

What else can it do?

If society is filled with the unserious, this is the only thing it can sell.

For no society can sell what it does not possess.

 

If a man possesses only a heap of mud,

He has no other choice than to package and sell this heap of mud.

 

The poor man is unserious.

He possesses the fortitude to rise above his property.

But the unserious stories he tells himself,

And the unserious ones that society tells him,

Keeps him doomed to a life of poverty.

 

The rich man is unserious.

He possesses the fortitude to become free of his anxieties.

But his unseriousness drives him to seek prescriptions from the world of self-help, spirituality, and motivation.

Because of his unseriousness, these things seem attractive to him.

He fails to realize that the very thing that made him a success was ignoring such empty prescriptive modalities.

 

The unserious man thinks to himself,

“Everyone is saying this and that. The new thing is mediation, let me try that. The new thing is stoicism, let me try that. All the movers and shakers are trying it. It is being touted on all the latest podcasts. The latest best-sellers are recommending mindfulness and morning routines. Yes, I will try these things. Maybe they will take me where I wish to go.”

 

The Truth is, the types of things that one is attracted to are defined by his level of seriousness.

The quality of questions one asks, is a product of his level of seriousness.

 

Siddhartha essentially said, To hell with bodily mortification, meditation, and prescriptions. I am going to sit under the Bodhi tree and devote myself to enlightenment. My flesh may rot, and my bones may break. If I die, so be it. But one of these two things will happen: Enlightenment or Death.

Make no mistake. Siddhartha’s enlightenment was not the result of sitting under a Bodhi tree. It was the result of his Seriousness.

 

An act is an act.

Anyone can act.

Anyone can follow an act.

But the act does not create the result.

 

If the act created the result, then anyone could sit under a Bodhi tree as Siddhartha did, and become enlightened.

Attracted by such silly ideas, people buy books that tell them to “mimic” the behaviors of successful people.

 

Behavior does not make a man.

Behavior is a byproduct of one’s level of seriousness.

One who is unserious, speaks and acts in a certain sort of way.

One who is serious, speaks and acts in a different sort of way.

The details of such “ways” are secondary.

Their quality and their nature is primary.

 

Can I make an unserious man successful?

Can I help an unserious man become free and peaceful and anxiety-free?

Can I help an unserious man conquer his mind?

 

Let us speak Truth.

 

Firstly, it is not “I” who does these things.

It is something that arises within me, and which moves through me.

 

Secondly, the answer to these three questions is, Yes.

That which moves through me is able to help even the unserious man achieve such things.

 

Let us speak one final Truth.

 

Is this going to happen?

It is not.

The reason it is not is that in order for me to help a human achieve such things, a particular level of inspiration must arise within me.

This inspiration unlocks the gates to the powers that the universe provides.

This inspiration releases the energy and the elixir necessary to take a human to such heights.

Such an inspiration is not under my control.

It arises when the conditions are ripe.

An unserious human . . . does not create such a ripened condition.

 

A final Truth:

 

Human beings have a habit of doing “a lot.”

Of “working hard.”

Of effort, sweat, and toil.

A major reason that they do these things is in order to provide themselves a consolation prize, when they fail.

Humans have been conditioned to supplant “effort” and “hard work” as the achievement itself.

This is the natural result of an Unseriousness to Arrive.

 

Namaste.