Giants Of Man

There are those

In human history

Who are Giants of Man.

 

They display

The Ultimate Possibility

Of Man.

 

Not by way of ego

Or fame

Or popularity

Or following . . .

 

But by a pure devotion

And the rarest of human DNA.

 

A Buddha . . .

A Jesus . . .

 

Their teachings need not be followed.

Their characteristics need not be emulated.

 

In fact,

Their words mean little.

Because they are addressed to the masses.

 

Words addressed to the masses

Are worthy only of the masses.

Thus,

They are of no value.

 

And no value

And no results

Is exactly what has been achieved

By having their books sit on dusty shelves

For thousands of years.

 

Love thy neighbor . . .

Peace comes from within . . .

Craving creates suffering . . .

Search and ye shall find . . .

 

If a human is struck

In the depth of his heart

By a particular teaching,

And he wishes to devote his life to it . . .

Then there is a possibility.

 

Otherwise,

The words

Are simply words.

 

The teachings

Simply adorn office walls,

Church pews,

And meditation halls.

 

The matter is not

Of the words.

 

The matter is of

The Man.

 

The matter is not

Of the talent.

 

The matter is not

Of the habits.

 

The matter

Is of the Desire for Truth

And the capacity for Devotion.

 

The Giant of Man

Has little interest in the world

Or its people.

 

For he recognizes

That the world is but a traveling circus,

And the people

Do not have the capacity to understand.

 

Speaking practically,

Who are Buddha’s words for?

Who are Jesus words for?

 

No One.

 

They are but a counterfeit currency.

They are but a silhouette.

They are but a stick-figure drawing.

 

Why is this so?

 

Because they are reduced

Into prescriptions.

 

That which is reduced

To a prescription

Loses all of its value

And all of its power.

 

It is but the shell

And the rind.

 

No prescription

Made Jesus

Into Jesus.

 

No prescription

Made Buddha

Into Buddha.

 

In fact,

It was only when Buddha

Left all prescriptions

That he became Buddha.

 

If he wished to write something

Of his discovery,

Why not write The Truth?

 

He did not do so

For the very same reason

That no man,

No matter how great,

Does so.

 

Because he seeks for it to be understood

And “practiced”

By the masses.

 

Understand this:

Any teaching

That dilutes itself

To be understood . . .

 

Any teaching

Whose principal objective

Is to be “practiced” . . .

 

Any teaching

That caters

To the masses . . .

 

Is but

Used toilet paper.

 

It denigrates

The Man

Who speaks it.

 

Truth is Truth.

It stands on its own.

It is not subject to compromise.

 

He who longs for it,

Must Reach for it

Until his limbs are pulled

From their sockets.

 

Truth

Bows to no man.

 

And the Giants of Man

Such as Jesus

And Buddha

Did just that.

 

They did not find it through

Abridged and summarized quotes

And prescriptions.

 

Any fool can hold out his hand.

Any fool can ask for “the steps and the method.”

It is for this reason

That fools

Remain fools.

 

The Giant of Man

Is the Giant of Man

Precisely because . . .

He is willing to do Anything

To Arrive At Truth.

 

It is the willingness to scale

The deadly mountain

Come what may . . .

 

It is the willingness to traverse

The treacherous sea

Come what may . . .

 

For in order to do so

Such a man has the Mountain

And the Ocean

Within him.

 

Namaste.