Students of the Instant

October 6, 2014

Left or right?

Go one way or go the other?

Where do you want to be herded?

Because there are thousands of dual ideas abstracted into ideals.

Which of them do you want to let manipulate you?

Futures of progress and comfort, worlds of equality and bliss: ideals, illusions.

Homeland, justice, belonging, freedom, the people: words, lies.

Dreams of brotherhood, dreams of abundance, dreams of struggle, dreams of peace: dreams, utopias.

Do you want to know the Truth?

To believe in dreams is to give up your strength to wake up.

To believe in words is to let yourself be carried off by the wind that carries them.

To believe in ideals is to subjugate yourself to those who promise to make them real.

You will know your dreams, you will silence your words, you will make your ideals real.

But now come here, know yourself.

And live by yourself like an unerring warrior with no captain.

Don't believe in anything or anyone.

Don't defend or attack anything or anyone.

Because you are here, at the center of everything.

And the Truth is you yourself, now.

You, the center of everything.