we seek with all our hearts for answers to these the pointed questions
"answers! answers! answers!"
We beg, we plead, we search and we dig. A process which one day earlier might have been more finite and ending we may now be at for years or for life.
This new world of information means that there is more data to shift. The shovels, the tools and the very shoes on our feet in this journey we will soon find are quite inadequate for the length of the journey, for the dearth of information we have to sift through. At times we attempt to seek out other seekers of truth in our area of distress. Sometimes this is fruitful, and answers are shared. More often those who claim to have obtained truth are unwilling to share the keys to the gates of truth. They often will say something towards the persuasion of: "Find truth! It won't steer you wrong!" But when it comes to the every day application of truth we are sadly in great ignorance.
We are like sheep or cows with electronic repair manuals and broken machines. It is not only the lack of tools that we are sorrowful in, we are sorrowful that our limited minds cannot understand what it is that we lack. We read from others who claim to have answers, to hear the same jargon and half answers we heard before. At times we hear or read something in the blanks between the half answers that sounds like a new answer. That answer is almost constantly the same one: Give up.
"Give up" it whispers quietly and fluidly like an old friend. "Give up and find peace with your ignorance. If there are answers they will find you." But you and I know that is not so. Food is given to him who is hungry and asks for it, sometimes works for it. So knowledge and wisdom belong to the seeker! These who would have you or I to give up would have you believe that this is as good as it gets. I can tell you from experience it is not. There is so much better than this moment now. I do not care where this moment finds us, it can and will get better. There is ALWAYS more, this concept may baffle you yet it is true. The question has never been "is there more?" Of course there is, you could not understand it if it were otherwise. The question is more along the lines of "When will more be enough?" Which is to say that we desire to know when our quest will reach the predetermined destination to which we are journeying, otherwise we will never know contentment.
Greed to it's own ends is of course evil, but not for the reasons you might think. You must be able to arrive at the station you are traveling to if you want to quest successfully. You can't just say "take me where the road takes people" for that is gasping in the wind. The road goes on further than your feet can carry you in the time given. If the road is good and the journey worth taking then there must be purpose in it. If it is to see sights, then see them and be content. If you are taking it to end up somewhere then take the shortest road. Lust and greed are more along the lines of worshiping the process and not the creator of the process.
Yet here we are, not where we desire to be, not knowing what we desire to know, and with an uncertain road ahead. We fight throughout the day and the night, trying to hold on to that vision, that dream of arriving, of knowing, and of contentment. Is it there? Can you see it? I, for my considerable impairment, cannot see it today. I do not lose heart, because I have but human limited eyes. There is one who can see, and he says hold on. There is one who knows, and he says to seek. He says to ask and he says to knock and the door will be opened. Could he say such things, given his authority, and they not be true? If in him we put our trust, and our love, we must hold these things to be true. I beg, I beg, help me friends. Help me enemies! Help me strangers whom I have not met whom might yet be friends or enemies. Give of what you understand, that I might grasp closer to the truth! Let us share in our substantial difficulties in searching out the nirvana of contentment in our time. Let us collaborate and more effectively direct our search and quest. Together we will find a way, together we will reach Truth!
"answers! answers! answers!"
We beg, we plead, we search and we dig. A process which one day earlier might have been more finite and ending we may now be at for years or for life.
This new world of information means that there is more data to shift. The shovels, the tools and the very shoes on our feet in this journey we will soon find are quite inadequate for the length of the journey, for the dearth of information we have to sift through. At times we attempt to seek out other seekers of truth in our area of distress. Sometimes this is fruitful, and answers are shared. More often those who claim to have obtained truth are unwilling to share the keys to the gates of truth. They often will say something towards the persuasion of: "Find truth! It won't steer you wrong!" But when it comes to the every day application of truth we are sadly in great ignorance.
We are like sheep or cows with electronic repair manuals and broken machines. It is not only the lack of tools that we are sorrowful in, we are sorrowful that our limited minds cannot understand what it is that we lack. We read from others who claim to have answers, to hear the same jargon and half answers we heard before. At times we hear or read something in the blanks between the half answers that sounds like a new answer. That answer is almost constantly the same one: Give up.
"Give up" it whispers quietly and fluidly like an old friend. "Give up and find peace with your ignorance. If there are answers they will find you." But you and I know that is not so. Food is given to him who is hungry and asks for it, sometimes works for it. So knowledge and wisdom belong to the seeker! These who would have you or I to give up would have you believe that this is as good as it gets. I can tell you from experience it is not. There is so much better than this moment now. I do not care where this moment finds us, it can and will get better. There is ALWAYS more, this concept may baffle you yet it is true. The question has never been "is there more?" Of course there is, you could not understand it if it were otherwise. The question is more along the lines of "When will more be enough?" Which is to say that we desire to know when our quest will reach the predetermined destination to which we are journeying, otherwise we will never know contentment.
Greed to it's own ends is of course evil, but not for the reasons you might think. You must be able to arrive at the station you are traveling to if you want to quest successfully. You can't just say "take me where the road takes people" for that is gasping in the wind. The road goes on further than your feet can carry you in the time given. If the road is good and the journey worth taking then there must be purpose in it. If it is to see sights, then see them and be content. If you are taking it to end up somewhere then take the shortest road. Lust and greed are more along the lines of worshiping the process and not the creator of the process.
Yet here we are, not where we desire to be, not knowing what we desire to know, and with an uncertain road ahead. We fight throughout the day and the night, trying to hold on to that vision, that dream of arriving, of knowing, and of contentment. Is it there? Can you see it? I, for my considerable impairment, cannot see it today. I do not lose heart, because I have but human limited eyes. There is one who can see, and he says hold on. There is one who knows, and he says to seek. He says to ask and he says to knock and the door will be opened. Could he say such things, given his authority, and they not be true? If in him we put our trust, and our love, we must hold these things to be true. I beg, I beg, help me friends. Help me enemies! Help me strangers whom I have not met whom might yet be friends or enemies. Give of what you understand, that I might grasp closer to the truth! Let us share in our substantial difficulties in searching out the nirvana of contentment in our time. Let us collaborate and more effectively direct our search and quest. Together we will find a way, together we will reach Truth!
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