A Serious Human’s Journey To Truth

One need not know the precise Truth.

One need only know the direction.

One need only know the category.

 

One need not know where Truth lives.

One need only know where it does not.

 

Relief from pain

Reprieve from anxiety

Feeling happy

Lessening turmoil

Less of one thing, more of another.

 

This is all that any society can offer.

And this is why its citizens die without having found Truth.

For Truth does not reside in such things.

 

Practice

Improving habits

Performing penance

Carrying out austerities

Performing lofty spiritual activities and methods

 

This is all that any society can offer.

And this is why its citizens die without having found Truth.

For Truth does not reside in such things.

 

Trying to be good

Trying not to be bad

Being clever, outraged, and disingenuous about the interpretation of these two things.

 

Truth does not reside in such things.

For where are there designations,

Where there are rules and principles to follow,

Where there is an attempt to satisfy a label

There cannot be Truth.

 

The difference between the Serious man

And the unserious man

Is that the Serious man arrives at the heartfelt realization

That he has not been Serious.

 

Is there a way to the end of pain?

Is there a way to a life of peace?

Is there a way to a life of freedom?

 

Yes.

But if your heart quickens to “know the way,”

It will not benefit you.

 

For you will be on the lookout for a ship that never arrives.

You will be looking in a place that it does not reside.

You will be looking with eyes that cannot detect it.

 

The way is not the Beginning,

But the End.

 

The end of all chases.

The end of a desire to chase.

The end of one’s allegiance to spirituality, self-help, and society.

The end of the empty promises, that if you continue to do what you are doing, one day it will come.

 

The end of belief.

The end of opinion.

The end of intellectualization.

The end of following methods.

 

The Serious man is not the man who is ready to Go.

He is the man who is ready to Stop.

 

The Serious man is not the man who is ready to Become.

He is the man who is ready to Unravel Himself.

 

The Serious man is not the man who seeks Happiness.

He is the man who is ready to abandon his addiction to it.

 

The Serious man is not the one who is ready To Do.

He is the man who is ready To See.

 

For no doing can possibly match

What Seeing can do.

 

Namaste.