Transmuting ego
Lead into spiritual gold
Is suffering’s job.
Self-centered thinking
Causes such unhappiness--
Bedeviled by thought.
Clinging to the hell
Of self-centered thinking, I
Ask to stop burning.
Without any doubt,
Thinking about thought is the
Road to perdition.
Until we see "our
Wounds are self-inflicted" we
Are bound to suffer."
A fatal case of
Mistaken Identity
This Being Human.
Thinking of myself
In relative terms I am
Subject to Objects.
Mental resistance
To a present state of mind
Causes suffering.
Suffering because
We misdefine ourselves and
The Father of All.
We suffer because
A false premise of being
Needs to be revealed.
Once again caught in
The pincers of time and space—
Coal bearing diamond.
My soulful anguish,
Mid-wife to eternal glory,
Cosmic labor pains.
(1) Scripture-Wise:
"The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts." Proverbs 17:3 KJV
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;" 2 Corinthians 4:17 KJV
(2) Shakespeare-Wise:
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages..."
(3) "The Story of Me"-Wise:
"Imagine yourself playing the role of Macbeth, so intrigued by the excitement and thunderous events on the stage that you believe everything happening there is exactly as it appears, the obvious and factual truth. Imagine that you have become so absorbed in the play, particularly your own part, as to forget it is only a play, a fictitious, intellectually created drama.
"From this incorrect standpoint, you find yourself accepting and believing the identity the play gives you. You find yourself literally being Macbeth, living the burdens of Macbeth and suffering the agony heaped on his shoulders. Macduff's threats to your life seem terribly real; the blood on Lady Macbeth's hands seems fixed and permanent; her fears add mightily to your own.
"Believing yourself to be Macbeth, you find yourself worried, frightened and bent to the ground beneath the weight of your machinations. Even though Macbeth is not your actual identity, never was and never could be really, you believe it is—and act it.
"When the torment of the misidentification finally becomes too great to bear, perhaps in a moment of agony and wonderment about the "why" of it all, you ask someone who is attempting to tell you the Truth, "Why do you keep saying there is nothing to worry about? Why do you tell me I am suffering needlessly? What do you mean, I do not need to 'take thought'? What do you mean, 'things are not as they appear' and 'my kingdom is not of this world"?What about those horsemen thundering across the stage? What about the soldiers I see hiding behind the trees? How in the world can I keep from worrying about them?
"Your talk is pure gobbledygook, completely beyond my comprehension." Inevitably, your questions stem from the belief the play is true and real. Questions will continue to arise until the play is seen to be the fiction it is.
"This illustration makes clear that the actors have no problems outside the play. It shows that their genuine identity is of “another world..."
(From Bill Samuel's "A Guide to Awareness and Tranquility")
(4) "Christ in You"-Wise:
"For years we have gone outside to teachers, leaders, and holy books, when the entire universe of Truth has been within us all the while. Its confirmation is found nowhere else. Where? Within the Heart! Here! Now
-- Bill Samuel.
