Built To Last

That which should pass

Should be written on water

That which should last

Should be written on stone

That things are impermanent

Is true

But that which is the substantial cause

Of arising

Is lasting and authentically rooted

When one tries to live in a credo that is directly opposed by the dominating one, despite overlapping, at times, practices, it is easy to lose one’s urgency.

When one has reached a certain degree of comfort in the dominating paradigm, it is easy to focus on one’s own safety.

Those who are privileged by the dominating paradigm may find that they are appalled in moments but because they live in ‘norms’ and not ‘values’ it takes only the moments for the observed suffering to dissipate into the average, and the wails and tears become ephemeral and unreal.

And to those who are the wretched, their hands can be stayed, when the will of the People becomes the Will of the Masters, they know that it can definitely get worse. So they comfort themselves in their own inability, as those closer to the Masters do too, but this comfort of the lack of agency brings about no worldly gains for the wretched and leaves them only words to eat.

How does one imbue their life with a willfulness that is aligned with the Truthful heart of us all? There must be a ferociousness of goodness that stands upon the light Truth of Love. Love, which is so poorly named in our culture, is that which seeks to fulfill but is itself fulfilled, selflessness is none other than the secret name of Love. Selflessness is that which stands up to reason, inquiry, and then in practice is seeks the other in service. This then, strangely, also serves the self, we must say here, for one always worries about the annihilation of the functioning self. The person does not go anywhere, they are there, but their actions then have meaning when they are properly and adequately rooted in the Truth. The world in which this functioning self resides in a world rooted in this Truth is the dynamic pinnacle of the human endeavor.

I use these words purposely. For you must vociferously shake yourself out of the slumber that you have been put under. You are a uniqueness that has never been and shall never arise again, each moment because of the dynamism of reality is created, the moment is arisen anew, because of this the question is not ‘if’ it is ‘what do we wish it to be’. All human systems are contracts of agreement, agreement can be withdrawn or renewed.

Energy, to last, must come from a beautiful understanding of the responsibility held by the ineffable, unique, being that is You, and to understand that the Other is this too, and then examine the contract in which we live, and to see if it clearly ‘sees’ this to be True. If the lens is blurry, if it debases that which should not be debased, the energy arises from the confidence in the Truth of being and the discontent at what goes for the systemic expression of our Humanity. It must be a fundamental discord that is seen, and in such a discord, there is no need to worry about ‘burning out’ for the Truth of selflessness is an inexhaustible supply of energy to make that which must be, actual.