Be

Be

Utilitarian desires lead to unfulfilled lives
Let the reason be: because.

Love for love’s sake,
Think for the purpose of thinking
Question because you can
Be solely to be

When we attach a reason to everything
Everything requires a reason
And we become slaves to functionality

Needs

Needs

With the invention of needs comes the invention of pain:
Both are illusions.
Without needs, there would be no pain.
Our truest needs are inherently fulfilled.

Seeking after false needs only appeases the false self
As a pill pacifies an addict.

Follow the true self
Seek after Reality itself and false desires fade.

Love Poem

Love

Surrender to Love and master all:
The enemy’s threat is removed, when he ceases to be the enemy.
Embody Love and you will transcend all:
What place can fear or hate have in Its presence?

The greatest possible force lies around and within.
Love not for profit, but for Love’s sake:
True Love cannot be used selfishly.

Love is the end, not the means.

Faith

Faith

Faith is not the suppression of doubt, but the overcoming of it.

It is the acceptance of reality
The reality of things unseen,
But not unfelt, unheard or unsensed.

Reality demands the loss of control

I am

I am

I am just a pair of eyes,
But my eyes are not autonomous from myself.
I am just an interwoven tapestry of cells,
But the cells fail on their own.
I am just a collection of thoughts and memories
On their own do they exist?

As the painting says to his painter,
As the clay pot says to his sculptor,
As book says to his author,

I AM because YOU ARE.

True Freedom

Something John R. and I have been working on/discussing:

True Freedom

Lust is the natural reaction to the illusion of not being free
Shed the illusion and let freedom in.

Not freedom from, but rather freedom to
Freedom is not about escape, but the ability to arrive
As freedom goes so does love

True love comes only when one has true freedom.

Truth in Postmodern Society*

Truth -the very word has been reduced to antiquity in postmodern thought. Many refer to the word in past tense as though its presence has left the world long ago; however these same people also refer to it in passing. The most staunch relativist will always slip into set phrases: "He is the right man for the job," or, "that was the wrong thing to do." The dichotomy between intentions and actions toward the same, previously simple word leaves us with the unavoidable question: is truth practical, or even possible?

I believe that in each particular situation there is a right and wrong. But this is not relativism. Though I may deny broad and sweeping rules which exist for all people in all situations, I do not recant that Truth itself exists. When an individual is faced with a choice, there is either a correct or incorrect way to respond; or else every choice we make in this life is of no consequence. This is not a false dichotomy fallacy -it applies to every facet of life. In Wonderland, Alice asks the Cheshire cat which way she should go, but is unsure of her destination. His logically sound response is that it does not matter which choice she makes. Analogously, if we are unsure of the existence of Truth, all choices are equally valid.

How can we say that "Truth is relative," a statement which is absolute, and not see the inherent contradiction? I submit that the word IS should not exist for deniers of Truth. The moment any relativist tells someone that he or she is wrong, he denies his very philosophy. As unpopular as unpopular as universality may have become in today's society, its merits are undeniable. Thoreau once said, "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." It is this, our transcendentalist roots, which at least partially endows us with the inexorable drive for truth-seeking. The existence of Truth is what we realize. 'To be true or to be false' is less the issue than simply 'to be or not to be?'

*Truth, in this paragraph, I define as something which is in accordance with transcendent, fundamental, and spiritual reality.