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Enter Poem or Quote (Required)Required “I have five friends; a Christian, a Buddhist, a Sikh, a Hindu and a Muslim. Each speaks of a different God or truth. Who should I believe?” “Belief? Is that not a mind game? Is not blind faith self-hypnosis? Depending on where we are born, we are taught to follow a this or that religion. Is God so narrow, so selective, so prejudiced to nurture only a select few?” “What then? How may I know the ultimate truth?” “Reflect! We are forged from elements of Mother Earth, breathe the same air and the life giving sun shines equally upon all. The labels and meanings assigned by different belief systems evidently point out to a single God or truth.” “Which religion is valid?” “All are. The scriptures merely show the path. However, we need to walk upon it ourselves to know the truth. Religion is a crutch. Once we learn to walk, the rituals specified are not only unnecessary, they are in fact, fetters.” “Why so?” “We cannot use mind to transcend mind, that’s why.” “What then do we need to do?” “End inner conflict. Meld head with heart, in resonance with love, reflected in thought, word and deed, moment to moment, all moments entwined. Make heart pure. Live internally. Invite God's grace.” “Will not people take advantage us if we are not worldly wise? What is living internally? Do we need to renounce the world?” “The world is transient. Love alone is real. Everything else is an illusion, a thought construct. No object, be it physical, mental or emotional, can give us happiness in permanence. We must live authentically, standing erect, aligned with voice of God speaking as our conscience. Other than that, we can live vibrantly in the world but free from attachments. Attachment is stagnation and stagnation is death. Flow like the breeze, with nonchalant ease.” “What practice should we follow then, prayer, meditation, service to others perhaps?” “All paths are valid but yet none are. It depends upon our orientation. Let the prayer be simply childlike innocence seeking God just as love in love with love seeks love alone. Let this be our priority, not an exercise we do for a few minutes to generate inner tranquility. Likewise meditation, what is it but thought rested stillness, renewed in the time continuum? Let not seeking any power be a part of meditation; the doer must vaporise! Then service, do so as a conduit of God, knowing He is the enabler and we are an instrument. As such, humility is the key. All paths require surrender of identity.” “This sounds too tame and passive. What about the results? What can we expect and how long does it take?” “There we go again! Who seeks? Who are we, if we are not this mind-body? What is the source of our aliveness? How are we being breathed?” “Alright! So God’s energy keeps us alive, enables senses and cognition but unless there are results visible, is this too not another belief to look all goody-goody, another form of self-hypnosis?” “Ah! The ego identity speaks! Well, when we enter silence, at first, thoughts rise and subside. We do not resist. Simply observe and recognise that the thoughts of foreign origin are appearing in our consciousness but we do not own them. They relate to body, not to us, as soul, as God’s essence. Gradually, with practice, we are able to abide in stillness sans thought. We become empty. With the contaminant of thought removed, inner magnetism is activated, drawing in the divine energy, which goes by many names ~ Chi, Holy Spirit, Kundalini and so on. This energy transmutes our form gradually, that we become what we seek, God’s living light!” “How do I know what you say is true?” “Sorry son, you don’t! Seeing God by imbibing the bliss flame is a transformation, just as a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Believing does not help, we need to become. By letting go of limited and imaginary identity, we become what we always were and are, eternal living light.” “I get it now. Questions cease when we become the answer, requiring thereafter no translator.” 20-November-2022 Dialogue Proficiency Poetry Contest Sponsor: Matt Caliri
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