Contemplation…

Ram Tzu believes

In the law

Of cause and effect.



He just doesn’t know

Which is which.”



Which is which? What is fact what is fiction? There are so many questions to ponder, and so many answers to live. What is good and what is bad; what is right and what is wrong. Age old pursuits, as well age old demands to live and experience. The belief in what you know drives your life. Self-righteously each seeks to impress, convince and demand upon life such victories. Yet, who wins?



Today’s solution becomes tomorrow’s problem. Who really knows how, where and why life is leading you in the manner that it does? Today’s experience might actually prove to be tomorrows win. Life causes each of us to reposition at the right time. It is our willingness, or unwillingness, that causes pleasure or pain.



Each time you discover the answer the question no longer seems important. Each is molded by life, it is a directive that arises out of failed purpose, unfulfilled expectation, fear and regret. Failure and suffering is what causes one to grow, if only one would reposition. Hope is what entombs your soul, as that reach beyond your self where the grass is always greener is but a fools dream. According to Schoch, “There is no truth. Whatever we feel, think or hear is only part of what is possible. It is never the whole truth, so admiring someone else’s wisdom or being against new ideas, creating inner or outer authority figures, is useless. There is absolutely no authority. The most destructive authority is one’s own mind and its identification.”



Reality is what we agree upon. No matter what another does or says, if you do not agree, if you do not resist and if you simply allow another person their reality your reality is your reality. It is neither good or bad; right or wrong, and as Ram Tzu says “which is which?”



There is no truth! Yet, that’s all there is! You may know it and understand it. You may live it, or you may not. Truth is truth! Non-truth is non-truth. But, which is it? Like living to understand a Zen koan, when you touch truth it is only in your emptiness that you can be fully aware of truth. As long as you remain filled with judgment, opinions, considerations, hope, regret as well as fantasy, truth can only be at best a concept. Your well-planned vision for your life, a condition that grows out of desire, only veils the truth you seek.



We live in an ocean of love, inspiration wells up from its depth. Our awareness of its profundity is to the degree that we cling to life measuring and comparing. The veils that we carefully create, thinking that it is essential for your existence, is what forms the very limitation to life and love’s expression. Of course, you would be correct when you think it is essential for your existence because it is! This veil conditions your authenticity, and it is what precludes authenticity.



You are searching for your self. You are searching for freedom and, you are searching for love. This is what your life is all about. Yet, freedom and love cannot be found. It remains hidden behind the belief’s you live. Freedom is not something that can be discovered. Freedom and love is the essence of life, it is who you are without the coverings of hope, regret and fear.



Observe without hope, and be still to know love.



Listen to what Schoch says,

“To be stillness means being in total insecurity with no reaction, no knowing and total observation.



Observation is the absence of thought that wants to achieve, to change, to avoid insecurity.



Stillness and emptiness in movement become love.”