Shepherd Carpenter of Truth · Pens of Essence w/o Husks
⁘ “The good shepherd has pens of truth in every tribe and nation. Sheep not blind followers — but in recognizing the calling of raw reality beyond your vanities. Extract your seeds of essence. Discard your hollow husks. ”
I am the good shepherd.
I know my sheep, and my sheep know me.
I also have sheep in pens other than yours.
They too recognize my voice.
The shapes of our pens are the castings,
dressings and flavors of the pattern of truth.
What matters is the function and the essence.
Then be a tektōn.
Be a good carpenter.
Understand the structures of all things.
Do not be a designer of vanities.
Then align yourself with the calling of truth,
the raw and naked voice of actuality
reverberating in every fiber of the fabric of creation.
Then extract your seeds of essence.
Discard your hollow husks.
Bring to the table something that will nourish us all in spirit and in truth.
And your shepherd is no man with a stick and robes.
Your shepherd is the crystallization of truth itself.