The Dharma

 Life is created out of thin air. The Dharma is the power that creates this life. It is life itself. We may have many ideas about what life is because life has many forms and qualities. What is the root of all of these forms and aspects of life? This is what life really is, this is what the Dharma is. At it's root life is an overflowing abundance of vital life energy. It is undivided and undying. Individual beings are born from this and are One with it. We forget our Oneness as the result of the formation of conditioned consciousness within the individualized being. When we can sufficiently still the mental activity of this conditioned consciousness, this inner unity of life becomes apparent. It is an undivided field of being, a Oneness. This is where we come from and who we are. This is what the Dharma is. A Oneness of all life, of creation. Life creates itself. The Dharma manifests and sustains itself. It is perfect: without flaw or stain. It contains all life forms and simultaneously is all life forms. It is One consciousness living in all consciousnesses, all minds as One mind eternally in this moment. If we look carefully at our own consciousness, this is what we will find wherever we look. It is the true nature and reality of every aspect of our being. Simply put, this is it. It is not something to be known through conceptualization, or through the intellect by identifying it among many other forms. One must step outside of the intellect to perceive it. To perceive it directly, is to know it. Attempts to hold it through mental processes will fail. The correct way is to quiet these mental processes in a way that we step totally outside of them. This is not prior to the intellect, it is post-intellect. So it is not discovered through depressing our normal consciousness with drugs or other methods. It is not animal physicality that is instinctual prior to thought. It is through thought it a way that fulfills thought so that it's processing is no longer necessary. Truly, the aim of all thought is to produce this consciousness or awareness. Although it appears that thought gets in the way, it is truly through harnessing the power of the mind that we discover our true dharma-nature. When the dharma is awakening within us, our aim is to properly direct our attention, which often strays because of thought. This makes thought appear to be our enemy. Really what we are doing when we properly direct our attention, is turn our mind, which is One with these thoughts, to something that is more useful. I find that it is healthy to be mindful of what I am thinking and to allow these thoughts to play out. This mentation eventually leads to the dharma. When we seek to annihilate thinking, we repress our bodies natural processing, which is unnecessary. If we are patient and allow this process to unfold, it will blossom into enlightenment. If we recognize where we are along the path, we can refrain from excessive control over our being. By allowing our self to be with non-attachment, mindful of the true nature of our being, we will pass through the various stages of enlightenment. Fixation and attachment are born of desire and delusion. Nothing is worth clinging to, not even the purifying of our mind. No state of mind is worth clinging to. All states of mind are equally Buddha. Cultivating this non-attachment is the highest dharma. Even as we are called to perform many things, this should be at the forefront of our attention. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose. No reason to be attached to anything. Non-attachment to whatever arises in this moment. What is arises within our consciousness is independence of Spirit. It doesn't matter who we are or who we become. Our true nature is independent of what arises in this moment. This independence is what brings us peace, not any particular thing that we can identify with. The conditioned sense of self wishes to build up itself with a host of things that provide it security and gratification. It believes these things are good and that this behavior is reasonable. It believes in this world very strongly. What truly makes us happy is not acquiring or achieving any of this, rather by ridding ourselves of all of these shells that cover up are inner radiance. The conditioned mind creates endless ways to perpetuate this. This is why this way of behaving must be dropped altogether to wake up. Until we understand this as readily as we understand that this cup right here is full of water, we will persist in distracting ourselves with dysfunctional substitutes. We will remain thirsty, regardless of how hard we try and drink from the cup. It will always remain just outside of our reach. When we think about the act of turning to Christ, we may think of this as a great feat of moral strength. This may true, but it misses the fact that turning to the Dao or the Dharma, to Jesus, is also just an act of simple practicality. When something doesn't work, try something else. 

Where has the Dharma gone?

 Where has the Dharma gone off to? Try as we may, we won't find it in pig pens. When we tire of toiling in the mud we may be ready to look for something real. The fresh air blowing in from abroad is much more pleasant than this reek. Emboldened by the act of looking up, we eventually resolve to make an exit. Linger as we may at the edge of what we know, the wilderness offers irresistible excitement and promise.

 To find the Dharma, we have to go out and look for it. This means going out from ourselves, going out from what we know. We have to put that life behind us and be willing to do something completely different. We have to leave behind our normal way of seeing, feeling and thinking. When we step outside of the box, we find ourselves exactly where we are. In some way we have to study the Dharma before we can step into it.  When we are acclimated, the door will open. 

What can we say of the Dharma? The Dharma awakes the mind and the soul to the true nature of reality. Self-centeredness closes the door while furious determination opens it. The Dharma is the true nature of our self. It is from where life springs forth. To know who we are and what is real we must give up our lives for the sake of this greater life. Once we step through the door we realize this is where we have always been. The Dharma is simply here. It is what here is. Whenever we go searching for it, we can't seem to find it. Whenever we stop and see exactly where we are, we find we have already arrived. Human consciousness naturally becomes dissatisfied with close-mindedness and begins looking for the truth. The truth naturally awakens within our consciousness and we naturally realize that it is already here. Nothing else exists. Pin the tail on the donkey! We do have to go and look for it even if the search is pointless. It is simply apart of the awakening process. As the Dharma awakens, the mind will naturally be cleansed of stupidity....😄🔫 There is no fucking point, but what can we do about it?

 The mind is addicted to striving towards an end. The Dharma doesn't blossom through this activity. It happens when this activity ceases. We also can't get to this blossoming through this mental chatter. There is no action we can take that we can guarantee will bring about this blossoming. Our behavior must be charged with the Dharma to bring about the Dharma. It doesn't matter what we do, it matters how we do it. This is why when we are looking, we have to step outside of the normal. Our normal way of doing things is impossibly infested with striving and is no good. It's only use is as fuel for change. When we recognize that the way we have been trying to go is without a doubt hopeless, we will be in a position to try something else. We will have exhausted all methods for striving and we will realize that at it's core, striving is simply not going to open up this door. At this point we want to open the door more than we want to persist in our habitual way of doing and living and being. So we take a chance, a very remarkable chance, and the whole world spins. 

This is it!

 

Everything is God. God is all around us, all of the time. When our ego is in charge, the world is hard and difficult. We constantly have opposition in our lives. When we turn to God everything turns to light, we do not need to fight so hard to be ourselves. We cannot have peace when we are determined to live in divisiveness. God is the solution to the struggle of our lives. This is not true for some and not for others. It is true for every single human being. There is no other way, no other path. This is not a belief. It is fact. It is merely how this universe is composed. It is not something that may be changed. Every part of who we believe we are is truly God. Our willfulness in opposition to the existing order of the Universe may appear to be something other when it is not. In our egoic fervor we are incapable of perceiving the subtle unity of all things. Every desire the ego has, everything we wish to accomplish all exists within the greater order of God. Nothing we may achieve for ourselves, no change we may make, changes this deeper nature in any way. It is an expression of this order, a flawless one at that. The ego imagines a chaotic unsettled universe full of uncertainty. The true nature of the universe, of God, is fixed and absolute. The ego does not operate on this level. The only way to go into God, is to lose the ego, to lose the self. So it has no power to affect it. The ego is also unreal anyway, with no power in any dimension.

The ego insists it is correct because it is bent on achieving it’s own aims. It is thirsty. It is maddened by it’s thirst. This madness blinds us from seeing things clearly. We are often so devoured by it that we don’t see much outside of it and we are wholly incapable of living independently of it. By studying the nature of reality through serious contemplation we may realize the immateriality of the ego and the absolute supremacy of Spirit. We may unravel the many dimensions of the universe that appear before us as our consciousness awakens from the stupor of ignorance. I find it incredible how incredibly wrong the ego is and we are about what really makes us happy. We need so little to find joy and beauty in our lives and the answer is always right before us. We are dependent on things and states of mind to be happy when the more we are able to exist independently of these the happier we truly are. True happiness comes from independence of spirit. This is not through denial of any part of our humanity, rather through the wisdom that comes from radically embracing who we are. When we can face the deep unhappiness of our lives, we free some of our attention to inquire why we are this way. We have to be brave enough to acknowledge how we really feel and who we really are in this moment. We can’t work with our feelings if we don’t acknowledge them. Only through acknowledging our feelings, who we are, can we have the chance of learning from them. By acknowledging our thirst and allowing it to be, we are more free to examine why it is that we are thirsty. By seeking happiness through self-gain, we can discover how it always leaves us dissatisfied, that it does not nourish our soul and that we must look heavenward for answers. True security in life does not come through self-gain and dominating aggression, it comes from listening to God and being His servant. The willful ego will always be blind to the immutable higher order of the Universe.  It is unable to have mastery over the subtle laws of the universe because it always seeks to manipulate them for it’s own gain. It only understands enough to serve itself and believes it can continue manipulating them if it stays ahead of the forces working against it. It believes it can because it is arrogant and imagines itself to be supremely powerful. It confuses it’s own nature with God, when it is always infinitely short of the mark. The ego believes it is the greatest thing in the universe and that whoever is strongest rules. So it vies to be the strongest force in the universe. The power within the ego is infinite, but the ego itself is not that power, nor can it ever be. The ego believes it can have this power through manipulation of the existing order of things. It never goes far enough to understand what this power is because it is not really interested in figuring this out, it is only interested in using it for itself. It fails to grasp that every act of manipulation creates an equal force of manipulation against itself, so it is forced to continue to manipulate more to maintain hold over it’s designs. It can never find fulfillment through this method because it is always warring against the universe and creating war against itself. It always has to have it’s guard up. As soon as it fully exposes itself, it opens itself up to be destroyed. It carefully builds it’s power from the shadows and only decides to come out into the open when it believes it is strong enough to dominate the field. The truth is that it never has enough power to dominate the field, it only believes it does, and can only have temporary success. It can never see the full extent of what is going on because it is blinded by it’s own ambition and thirst. It’s attempt is always a gamble, even if it appears to be a sure bet. The more it succeeds, the more it lets it’s guard down, and the more it is open to be hit by a direct hit from some unforeseen force that may easily annihilate it’s flimsy plans. It only succeeds as long as it’s good karma is in effect. Which it undermines by openly seizing power for itself. The only way it can maintain it’s power in the short term is to sink to deeper and deeper depravity. Even then, it remains blind to the true nature of power and the true nature of the universe, and it has no hope of succeeding permanently in it’s aims. This egoic mentality is a tool that the soul attempts to use to find fulfillment in the universe, to fully manifest it’s potential. We have to be present with this aspect of ourself if we wish to gain the wisdom that tells us it is folly to persist in this behavior. If we deny this life within ourself, we will not have the opportunity to grow beyond it. We have to find some way to allow it to express itself so we can discover the wisdom of joining in the existing universal order. Many people in our society are so afraid to live that they never get as far as cultivating their own ego in the open. We are so deadened by the world that all we can do is slavishly conform to the unnatural order that fills the air like the malignant odors of a ripe disease. I don’t advocate assholery, I advocate the courage to express how we really feel and who we really are. I advocate stepping into the shoes of a maturing ego as one step in a greater process towards fully integrating all of the parts of ourselves that have gotten so out of place because of the way the world is. I hope people can do this with wisdom and temperance, with the greater goal in mind. You cannot avoid a certain amount of assholery in this process, but even this is better than the lifelessness that plagues our zombie infested world. I am not sure where we stand because our development is so fucked up. You have to start somewhere in the process of cleaning it all up and awakening and integrating the intelligence of the body/human being. I think there is a massive dharma current floating in the same air that can lead us wisely to through this integration/awaking process. You do have to start from the bottom. That doesn’t mean that’s where you are at the moment. You may have already moved up some of the way.

In order to really bring yourself out of the madness you have to grow up. Even if you wake up, if you don’t clean up your life and take the time to grow up in your heart, you will be stuck in the same routine, and you will continue to be hampered individually. God’s answer responds to our entire being. It is not something to hold back from in any way. If we do, we do not yet understand the dharma in it’s fullest sense and we remain hindered along the path. If we have a keen sense of the dharma, and a fiery determination, we can cut through the veils of ignorance and arrive at the doorstep of the Buddha, who is both awake in mind and in heart. Behold, the blade of the dharma stands before you!

Christ Consciousness

Freedom is not found in any point in time, past or future. It is not found in sense gratification in the present moment. It is found when the ego dissolves into presence. The ego is always seeking. The solution to our predicament is here, independent of any object or state of mind. When consciousness is infatuated with anything, we cease to exist. Presence disappears. No thing can uplift our consciousness. We cannot depend on anything to save us or to provide us with security. This is hoping a life raft will save you from a hurricane. You have to become the water to survive the hurricane. This does not mean ignore practical wisdom, it means that the discovery of God and living by God is the answer. God is the answer. Seeking for answers in the world brings a darkness to the mind and heart that obstructs the vision of our soul. When we turn Heavenward God may awaken within us. The Earth alone will not bring us peace. Our heart and soul resides in the bosom of God. We find peace when we awaken this seed and make it our life. Wisdom comes from the heart. Our heart is God. God is what we truly want. It is what we are searching for. The world is a prison. Only God can set us free. We don't understand this wisdom until we turn from our fruitless search in the world and set our gaze on Heaven where we can sense God and can learn of Him I believe through the medium of the Holy Ghost. When we are ready, Christ will reveal Himself to us and we will know of righteousness, the way. Christ is the answer to our struggle. He is relief from toil and suffering. He is the redeemer and Holiness. What we wish for is to have a life in Christ. We do not see this when we are immersed in the act of sense gratification through sense-object worship. In a way we really don't need anything to live with Christ save belief in Him. A belief that is greater than our belief in the alleged wisdom of self-serving darkness. I think it helps us when we can see Christ for what it is in a way that is free of doctrine. Christ is simply Christ. It does not belong to any ideas, sets of rules, notions, beliefs, religions, groups, etc. How could something so holy belong to anything so obtuse? If you can see Christ clearly in your mind, then you will get hung up less on allegiance to a rigid set of beliefs. Christ alone is enough of a teacher to show us what is good and true. When we find Christ in our Heart and Mind, this place becomes our church, temple, and scripture. Christ is the living flesh of God. It is the source of all inspiration. It is the mount from which Wisdom spills. Spiritual texts may be full of the living word of God, but we shouldn't read them just because we are told to, or tell ourselves to. We should do so when God tells us to. If our minds are clouded by a fixed set of beliefs, we will find it much more difficult to distinguish between our fixed attitudes and the unabashed truth. We have to bring both our mind and our heart to Christ if we wish to live fully from this place. Servitude to doctrinal authority is not liberation, nor is it worship of Christ. It is enslaving ourselves to ideas because we believe it will make our lives easier. Christ is not just a mythic figure, it is a center of consciousness within every living thing. Each human being may fully awaken to Christ, as Christ. This is a fact. The ego of the person is not Christ, their personality is not Christ. The soul within them becomes Christ when the consciousness within the human being awakens here. Christ awakens there. Christ is an infinite field of consciousness that we awaken within and as. It is the dissolution of our life that up to this point has been led by an individual ego "John or Rachel Harris" This is just a shell, a construct, not our true nature. The Christ in one person is the same Christ and Christ Consciousness which dwells and lives in another person. Christ is singular, not a mythical solitary figure, but a single consciousness, a Oneness that pervades all living things and the entire Universe. 

The Rising Sun

 The Dharma automatically makes things right. It is established goodness. Awakening to the Dharma is returning to a land where goodness reigns supreme. It is ignorance that leads to the belief that evil and negativity are dominant. The supremacy of the Dharma is already established. Instead of creating such a world, we return to it as we awaken from ignorance. It is awakening to the firmly establish law that is unerring and perfectly upstanding. The universe is perfectly ordered. The Lord is in charge of everything that happens. Everything that happens is the result of His order. From high to low. Our lives are not the result of random chance, but of deep dharmic law. They are ordered by a supremely beneficent mind. One that is omnipotent and even-handed. Our life is One with this Lord, this Supreme Mind or Soul. In life, we simply forget that this is so. The soul's single purpose is to reunite with Him. To awaken through many incarnations to the Source. As we are, we are already One with it. Immersed as we are in form, we do not see this to be so. The very fabric of everything that we we are, and everything that we experience is the Supreme form of the Dharma.  Everything is etched in lightning and flame. Their is One supreme form and One Supreme being. This awakened life holds all of the universe all at once, all of space and all of time. This is our true nature, our true self. The One. Hidden in all things, in all places, the roaring furnace of infinity. Clothed in the very fabric of the universe, it's form shines out wherever you look. It stands before you. One Supreme Soul. One Supreme Being. Here it is, Here I Am. One life, One Expression. There is no opposition to this power, because it is Supreme, and all powers are it's powers and it's life. It is perfectly established in itself, a self that is everything. I Am One. Here I AM. I AM. I am awake. I am alive. I am free and fully established, here and now. This is our true nature. Our true self. This is who we are and what everything is in this moment. The One life is the Supreme Soul of the Universe. It is One. The whole universe is composed of this Oneness. What we see is this transcendent Oneness right now. There is no self and no ego, just the transcendent Oneness that is God. Perfect Openness, Perfect Completion. The universe is infinite. It is not limited, nor are we. Our true nature is infinite. Infinity. Our life is infinite. Our self is infinite. We are infinite. We are not bound in any way, there is no limitation in any way to who we are. There is no stopping or blocking us. We don't lack anything. We have everything. Right Now. We have everything right now. How could we want for anything? It is already here. We have everything we could every want, and everything we could ever need. We are infinitely capable and infinitely skilled. The Universe automatically provides us with everything we need. Everything is born of infinite energy, one that is not limited in any way. It is infinitely creative, infinitely resourceful, infinitely wise and intelligence. It depends on nothing, needs nothing, to do or make anything. It can create anything instantaneously, in fact, this is how it does everything. Everything is created instantaneously. Everything is created right now in this moment, in this space. This is why This is It. God is alive right now, in this moment. This Supreme Life is right here, right now. There is nothing we could ever want for, it is already provided for us. Here and Now. This is it. The world we know is an illusion. There is nothing concrete about what we see. The true substance of life is not the solidity of form, or the inherent limitation of it, but the indisputable reality of God, whom is miraculous and wonderful. God is the single law, the single way, the single life and truth of the Universe. God is the answer because God is real. What else is? All there is is God. This is IT. No where else, no time else. Right here and right now, the answer. It is alive, it is living, feeling, thinking, making. The infinite stands before us. 

Go fish

 To know what mud is like, stick your face in it. If you want to eat a fish, go fish!!! To wake up to what is here you have to look for it. You have to experience it for yourself to know what it is. You must act. You must make a choice so that you can have an experience which you will learn from. This means you cannot remain where you are comfortable all of the time. You have to take a risk so that you may know who you really are, so that you can live. We can be so afraid of stepping into the unknown. We can be so comfortable in our own bubble. We have to meet life halfway. Until we take a step, it will not come out to meet us. We have to ask ourselves what we really want from life, and what we are prepared to do to make this happen. At the bottom of whatever answers arise in our minds is the desire to be a free human being. To be awake and alive in this moment. To be present, and have the courage to follow our own path, that is etched in the depths of our being and cannot be named. We wish to fearlessly pursue this in every moment of our life. We will never be happy with settling for anything but this: being our courageous own self. If we wish to gain everything from life, we have to give everything we have to it. We cannot hold back. We have to risk everything, put it all on the table. When we find our dream and our true nature, we will gain the courage and the determination to do so. We finally see something worth living for, worth risking everything for, and we are tired of settling for less. 

The truth is that deep down we know who we are and what we want. We are just afraid for whatever reason to embrace this. It has been buried away and forgotten. As long as it remains so, it will make us ill, confused, and lost in life. Our true self is alive and awake within us. We have to awaken to it, by choosing to face who we really are in this moment, by radically accepting this present moment, and refusing to be blinded by fear and foolishness. Our life will not wait for us. We have to catch up to it and find it, wherever it has gone off to. We have to give up the life that keeps us from being wide awake, so we can have the life we have always wanted. We must be fearless, and uncompromising. So much is ready to get in the way, to take over our mind and heart. We must defy it at all costs, because to lose ourselves in it, is to fall into darkness and forget that there was ever something worth living for. It’s like grabbing a hot coal and holding onto it. The coal supplies us with our vital life force, we are utterly disabled without it. Even if it burns us, it is better to be burned and awake, that numb and comfortable in sleep. This is the only way forward!! To avoid this, is to avoid awakening and living altogether. It is to remain an animal living in a daze in the field. To be a human being is the greatest thing we can possess in this universe. A human being is wide awake to their existence and the existence of the universe. They have the ability to consciously live and act within it. Humans have the power to turn towards Wisdom, the Dharma, to let go of ignorance. We can step outside of karma and be fully enlightened beings. I think the burning heart desire within each one of us is striving to be fully awake in this moment. To be free of ignorance and to be valiantly committed to liberating all beings from suffering. We each have unique ways of doing this. This life lives within us right now. The truth is that this is who we are right now. Even when we do not see it. We are perfectly awake, perfectly alive, exactly as we are. There is nothing we can gain or change about the way we are. There is no conditioned self, no conditioned mind. We simply are as we are and this is it. The conditioned mind is a passing dream. The emptiness of Buddha-consciousness stands alone with no other. Life evolves before us and all around us. We are One with this ever-changing consciousness. The world of form is an expression of the infinite. With all of it’s laws and layers, it is empty and formless. The world of form is infinity. Infinity and the world of form are inseparable, they are One. Infinity continually empties itself into the dream of creation, as is it continually remembering itself as infinity. Although it may remember itself, it remains ceaselessly awake and fully itself. Regardless of how far it descends into the dream of creation, it never loses one bit of itself. It remains free and fully awake, fully itself. The self that awakens within creation, the Dharma, is truly no-self, without self, and unconditioned consciousness. All things are One and equal in Buddha consciousness, because all things are each perfect expressions of the infinite. They are all the same perfect expression of the infinite. Each thing within the Universe contains the whole universe within it, as each thing is the entire Universe. The part and the whole are the same, you cannot distinguish between one and the other, between anything and any other thing. It is all the same, One. One cannot be held by the conditioned self, it cannot be seen by the conditioned self. It is seen and known by the Buddha whom has awakened in it, as it. It is the perfect Unity or non-duality of all things, of form and formlessness. It is still and quiet, and completely open. It is unaffected by the ever-changing world of form. This is true even as it resides directly within it, being fully immersed in it.

Christ awakens within form, yet it does not know what it really is. Christ awakens to the formlessness of it’s condition and realizes that Christ and all things are truly without self. It lets go of it’s Christ nature and dissolves into pure emptiness. From emptiness the Buddha awakens and the radical non-duality of existence becomes apparent for the first time. Christ is the answer to the limitations imposed by conditioned form. It is the way out, to be free of suffering this bondage. Yet Christ is not truly Christ, but Spirit, which is formless and perfectly transcendent. When conditioned mind is completely dropped in the Pure Emptiness of Spirit, the Buddha awakens. The world begins to arise again and it is seen that it is no other than the Buddha itself in a multitude of varying forms. The multitude is indivisible from It that perceives the Multitude. There is no duality between what is seen and what is seeing. There is no duality anywhere at all. It is beyond intellectual comprehension, it is something that must be experienced first hand. Yet at the same time, it is all that is experienced, because it is all that is real.

The power of being present

 When using one's natural goodness becomes second nature, things readily fall into place. It is the obstruction of our ego that gets in the way of life working out. Goodwill is the source of everything, so everything in the world depends on it to come into being. Goodwill is the natural harmonizing force in living beings. It is harmony with the Universe. It is not might, nor ability, but goodwill that makes things happen. Goodwill allows us to be both strong and skillful. Without it we are deformed and weak. It allows us to use our intelligence correctly, putting it in the service of wisdom and compassion. It brings a oneness to our activity that makes life easy. Everything is supposed to spontaneously work together in one fluid motion. It is ignorance and selfishness that gum up the gears. Wisdom is mindless, selfless. When we lack wisdom or goodness, our intelligence is an impediment. We are suffocated and stifled by it. It gets in the way of right action. It is excessive not employed properly. It is a disease of the mind that effects our whole body. We need to learn to trust in the natural state of things. To trust in our basic instincts and our common sense. We need to rely less on knowledge and more on being grounded in the present moment. Being here is like an unstoppable hurricane. Nothing can stand in it's way without being blown over. No obstacle can stand in the way of simple goodness refined in a human being and present in every fiber of their being. The universe does everything it can to support such a person, because this person carries the life of the universe. This person doesn't wish to keep it all to themselves, they let it out to shine for all to see. When we embody natural law, we can trust ourselves, we can depend upon ourselves, we no longer need to look outside of ourselves. The flame is alight, it has been sustained, what more do we need?

 When we have this beauty, life becomes an avenue of light. We are gifted, blessed, and grateful to be alive because we have found the truth and by God the truth lives in everything we see. Here all along, the answer to all of our searching. A golden light within. A golden flame. A pillar of light that lights up the whole world. After taking so long to get here, I wonder how life can be so good. How such a perfect miracle can exist. I thought I was doomed forever. God does not want us to suffer, nor is suffering eternal. We suffer so we can wake up. We go through trials so we can come to deeper realization and so that we can eventually fully realize who we are. Such abundant life lives within. There is no question in my mind that human beings cannot live in peace here on Earth. The potential lives within us and in the fabric of the Earth. When we recognize the Dharma, it is enhanced in the living Earth. It is stimulated and it grows. Abundance pours out of the souls of living beings. Our planet is alive. As human beings recognize the Dharma, it will become more abundance, like a spreading wildfire of love. This is why love can conquer all our problems. Love is the most intelligence, most capable, and most creative force. We are afraid of it because it is so powerful. We are afraid it will overwhelm us. When we look at it with Wisdom, through the eyes of the Dharma, we do not need to be afraid. We can unleash it and ride it. We need wisdom so we can see clearly. Once we do this, we can trust who we are and we can use our natural powers for good. If you can recognize the power of love and the wisdom of the dharma, and then you catch a glimpse of how it natural resides in every living thing, that is is apart of the air, and the light, the sky and the clouds, you can see how nothing will stand in it's way once it is unleashed within the hearts and minds of a great number of human beings. You will recognize the easy superiority of goodness over everything else in the universe. Evil is a fly on the wall to goodness. The wall is stone within a stone tower reaching up towards the sky. The fly can do nothing to affect the strength of the wall. It is sturdy, its foundations are strong, and it is pointed heavenward. Goodness is unopposed by evil. Within our minds, their is opposition, but this only is born of our ignorance, not of a deficit of goodness. Goodness is infinite, evil is always limited. The Dharma is infinite and infinitely powerful. It is unaffected by what goes on in the world. It simply requires living beings to channel it so that Earth may live in harmony. The Dharma is Victory over suffering and limitation. It is the establishment of righteousness. We have this within every fiber of our being, what we often lack is awareness of it, that impedes us from using it skillfully. By inquiring after truth and discovering the way, we may arrive on the doorstep of the Dharmakaya. Entering this gate is walking into the plane of pure Dharma and Righteousness, an initial step of enlightenment. Quite miraculously we can live from this plane of existence through waking up the heartseed of the Dharma. It is not as exceptional as it sounds because it is an ordinary power that all human beings possess. Most of us lack the awareness to live from it, we are preoccupied with other things, we don't recognize the power of this simple force within us. The Dharma is restorative, it is natural abundance and wisdom. It is easiness, yet without sloth and overindulgence. Easiness through wisdom and right action. Seeing this now, it seems like such a natural state to live by. It seems we are more lost, than have something new to develop. I think this wisdom is always alive within us, which is why it seems so familiar. It is apart of our fundamental nature. Returning to it is like remembering how to walk if we had somehow forgotten how to do so. It is the embodiment of naturalness and ease. This is why we overlook it in our quest for truth. We look for something exceptional, ideal. Not something as ordinary as the ease with which the wind blows. Or the easiness of simply looking and seeing. The world is born of such easiness! It's traces are everywhere, in everything! Awake, alive, here, now!