Live the Dharma

What is the human condition? Is it to love, to hurt, to feel? Are we born into sin or are we born as Gods? Were we made in error, or were we not made at all? We are born into something, there is no doubt about that, but what is it exactly?

Is the world a dream that we simply cannot wake from? Are we here to learn something from each other…from God? Are we here to learn to love?

Maybe we are the dreams of our fathers and we simply play out the story. Maybe we are the only way that God can feel. Maybe we are lost…

Just when I think I know it all, I find that am overwhelmed to the point where I know nothing at all. It is easy to get caught up in science or faith, but really how great is our perspective with such a limited faculty of understanding?

I don’t claim to have any answers, but I certainly have a lot of questions. I feel something when I travel down this road, I’m certain of that. I often don’t know where I am going or where I belong, but there is something that calls me there. Do you hear it?

We often get caught up in the excitement of our surroundings, forgetting we are on a journey home. Who among us feels at home here?

The pain and suffering in this place is tremendous, but I also enjoy the feel of it. I enjoy feeling inspired or hopeful. I enjoy being in love, so much that I am hopelessly out of control of my own experience. We’re all drunk on the sensual experience, but we’ve got to sober up.

Maybe this is a dream, but we’ve still got to wake up. The journey doesn’t end on its own.

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