Look Thru the Living Window · Don't Lick the Frame of Reality
⁘ “Not a standard authority on your spiritual tradition. Spent a lifetime exploring and immersed in each? Yes. Uncovering the radiant essence seeping through the veils of these traditions. I care about the living essence, embedded in and expressed through countless framings. I care about reality itself, as it is, in all of its beauty and fullness. Look through the window. Don't stare at the window frames... Whatever that you then directly witness.”
I'm not a standard authority
on your spiritual traditions of choice,
not an in-universe consultant.
Have I spent a saturated lifetime exploring,
practicing and immersing into various traditions?
Yes, I have.
And have I, in the process,
accumulated a significant field of
knowledge and insight into each?
Yes, I have.
But none of that to become a prime student,
a model citizen, in a given tradition.
All of that to uncover the radiant essence
seeping through the veils of diverse traditions.
I care about the living essence,
embedded in and expressed through countless traditions.
Because I care about reality itself,
as it is, in all of its beauty and fullness.
I have no interest at all in
indulging in the most fascinating of
mind-borne hallucinations disconnected from reality.
Nor do I wish to engage in debates
or burrow into internal contradictions,
seeking reconciliations in all these
mind-borne disconnected speculations.
All that I care of is the windows a given tradition
provides into this living reality of ours.
If you wish to explore those windows together,
then by all means.
Then, adjusting your angles,
and actually looking through the window,
instead of staring at the window frames...
Whatever that you may see.
Whatever the living insight.
Whatever that you directly witness.
The truth in the here and now.
Look through the window.
Don't lick the frame.