I would rather burn for the truth than settle for illusion I have no interest in armchair spirituality no taste for polished wisdom neatly packaged in soft words. Give me the ragged edge the blood and bone of transformation, where spirit and matter collide. Where awakening is not a gentle sigh but a fire that burns through every illusion. I am for tearing off the mask, casting off the veil and standing naked in the light of what remains. For falling without a net into the abyss of the unknown letting every fractured piece of me shatter on the ground until only truth is left breathing. I am for the beauty that underpins all of existence not the fragile fleeting kind but the beauty that arises from ruin that holds grief and heartbreak in it's arms and whispers, yes. For the burning of the false on the pyre of truth for the holy undoing, for the sacred unravelling. This polite conversation bores me it lulls me to sleep with it's empty gestures. I would rather dance wildly in the storm let the rain soak through my skin let the thunder crack open my chest until only love remains. I would rather pick up my guitar and sing love songs to whatever mystery brought me here. To the nameless force that breaks me heals me, swallows me whole I would rather admit I know nothing that I am no-one than posture and pretend to be someone.
Ma Kung approached the Master and said 'Most Dear Wu Hsin, give me a way to see what you have seen'. With an endearing look, the Master replied, 'Ma Kung, it is not like making a stew; there is no recipe. However, some who have come before you have succeeded with these: 1. Make the Self, this Being Conscious Presence, your religion. Worship It; stop worshiping the world and its contents and allow It to unveil Itself in all Its Majesty. 2. Clear seeing happens only when it is given a vacant space in which to happen. Space that is occupied with notions of a me-my-mine can never support clear sight. Set aside your busyness for a while and return to that Pose of Observing, the Natural Pose. It is from there that you will glean that all busyness is activity of the body/mind/self composite which you are not. No matter what is arising at this moment, there is Witnessing of it. You are that Witnessing, not an entity witnessing, rather the dynamic function of Witnessing. 3. You are the complete expression of your potentiality at this given moment. It couldn't be any other way. Recognize that all your actions are the effect of Self-propulsion. Distinguish between the All-Doer and the instrument of doing. Then be patient. 4. Trust. Trust in That which took care of you long before you presumed that you were in charge. Trust that That which brought you here will take you 'there'. Trust that Conscious Presence takes Care of Its Vehicle. Trust. 5. You are never without beliefs. You replace one belief with another, perpetuating a belief-exchange process. The root belief is 'me' to which all beliefs are then attached via 'mine'. Either drop all your beliefs or verify them. Otherwise, you are like a blind man who believes in rainbows. In each instance, the outcome has been the same. The mist lifts, the viewpoint shifts and one sees how Wu Hsin sees, one sees what Wu Hsin sees.
