Why Man Never Finds What He Is Searching For

Generations of men

Never find it.

 

Legions die

Never having known.

 

If a man searches

Why does he never find it?

 

He listens to one guru

Who says to be in the moment.

 

Another guru says

To focus on happiness.

 

One guru says

Forget the self.

 

Another one says

There is only the self.

 

Yet another one says

That there is a True self

And a False self.

 

One book says

That good men go to heaven.

 

Another book says

Heaven does not exist.

 

One author says

You will come back in the next life.

 

Another author says

There is no afterlife.

 

One guru says

Count your breaths.

 

Another one says

Watch your thoughts.

 

One author says

How you think is how you feel.

 

Another author says

What you think does not matter.

 

Yoga

Has hundreds of different styles.

 

Meditation

Has hundreds of different varieties.

 

Which of them

Is correct?

 

If you give the diplomatic non-answer

That “they are all correct,”

Then will you do All of them?

 

Even if you lived

A thousand years,

And did nothing but follow all of these prescriptions

There would not be enough time.

 

You will

Or likely have already . . .

Chosen.

 

But what if the guru

Or the path

You have chosen,

Turns out to be wrong?

 

Will you get your time back?

Will you get your life back?

 

Upon what basis

Can you judge

Who is right

Or wrong?

 

If you have followed a way

Or a guru,

And you have Arrived,

Then you can confidently say

That this guru or this way

Is correct.

 

But if you have not Arrived

Or if you have not gotten what you seek,

Upon what basis can you judge

Who is right

And who is wrong?

 

How can you say

That X guru is correct.

And Y guru is incorrect?

 

What is the litmus test

You can use

To verify the words in any book

Or on the lips of any guru?

 

You may choose to “believe.”

That is your right.

 

But belief is but a preference.

It is no different

Than you preferring chocolate over vanilla.

Or salty over sweet.

 

If one is going to spend

The only life that he has,

Basic logic and reasoning dictates

That he choose wisely.

 

And in order to choose wisely,

One must have a system of measure

Or some tool by which to evaluate.

 

If he does not,

It is a blind guess.

 

And a blind guess

Is a terrible thing

To risk one’s Life upon.

 

The Buddhists say that Buddha meditated

And achieved enlightenment.

So they are all meditating.

 

And because you heard them say this

And you read their writings,

You likely meditate also.

 

Everyone in this world

Is doing things

For no other reason

Than because someone told them to.

 

Everything in this world

Is hearsay.

 

Everything in this world

Is circumstantial.

 

Everything in this world

Is willy-nilly.

 

Everything in this world

Is arbitrary.

 

No evidence.

No standard of measurement.

No litmus test.

 

Just pretty

And “scientific”

And “spiritual”

Words.

 

It is all time-pass.

It is all spitting into the wind.

It is all rabbit’s feet,

Salt over the shoulder,

Four-leaf clovers

And a swift breath into the fist

For good luck.

 

What an unfortunate thing

Upon which to devote

A Human Life.

 

Namaste.