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Path to enlightenment
{This is a story i wrote if it doesnt belong in this group sorry}
A women prayed for days but her prays went unheard so she meditated for a month yet she could not find him. The wise man had been said to been siting on a rock pillar in the center of there village. She practice the rituals and did all of the teachings yet he still had not shown himself to her. The wise men of the village said they had seen him and spoke to him. They said his wit was of fools and his knowledge was that of a donkey.
One day while the street was crowded and she could not find any room she decide to go for a walk. In the nearby forest she came to a river and say a perfect place to do her daily ritual. She knelt down and offered a seed to the soil she then began to meditate once she felt connected to the source she then prayed
she lost time and place but could not loose self she could not find enlightenment. When again found place and time the moon was over head and a man sat across from her the man wore a mask and his clothes were tattered. She stared at the man confused and unsure who he was and what she should say. She simply stood up and bowed to him as she walked off.
She came again the next day to find the man had taken the place had been sitting only now there was a tree there. She was unsure if the man wanted company or if she would disturb the stranger who was obviously one who had given his life to this practice. A peach fell from the tree into the mans hand; he reach his hand out to hand it to her. She had been thought not indulge in worldly needs before prayer but it was as rude to decline an offering of food from someone who was without. She took the fruit and took a but the man offered her a place beside him. A unusual practice since under a peach tree was a place for only these who had found enlightenment but again to say no would have been rude. The man waited for me to finish the fruit before resuming his meditation once he began i also began.
"Tell me why to you wish to meet "the wise man" " he asked in a strange voice. The voice was soft but yet it pirece though you like an arrow. It went straight to your mind and made you excited. In the same moment it would then calm you and make you pounder every thing and nothing.
"I want to become enlightened." i responded
"Why do you want to become enlightened?" he preceded to ask.
I thought for much time. I wanted to ask how he had known but he could have asked any of the villagers they all know or perhaps he just figured. I then preceded to say
"i want to be enlightened so my life will matter and i may be happy"
"Your life is part of all life weather you are enlightened or not"
"happiness is a moment and nothing more" the man responded
"Why have you come here" I asked him
"I came here to meet you" he said
"What?! Who are You?"
"I'm The Wise Man and I have come here to speak with you"
"Why me?" I preceded to ask it more just sliped out
"I came here because i knew soon you would be ready to hear what i have to tell you"
"I shall tell you about enlightenment. Every one will tell you this is the one path to it and that all other will lead you astray. The truth is there are many paths and even the ones that lead you astray will always come back to the end. All of life begins in the same path and all will end at the same point. I once walked a path of Self loathing and Foolishness but it lead me here thus it was not all bad. The source/god/goddess/mother/father they all set you onto the plain with with no direction for it was meant for you to find your way back to them. When the source finds you wandering from life it gives you signs/blessings/dejavu's to help you find your way. No path is without a light and marked pathway. When you walk off of it you will only find your way to another"
I could only listen to him speak. I had wanted to hear his wisedom for so long
"I could tell you thousands of wisedoms but they would mean nothing to you. You must find your own path to enlightenment." The wise man looked up
"Look to the sky, so much yet nothing this is much like all of life there is so much up there but we only see it when it shine with stars or storms with clouds. as Children we see the world with true eyes we see the designs in the clouds and they mean so much. To see all the beaty of this world and to being one with it are both important. You search to lose self but yet you have never tried simply embracing the self. Truly loving who you are and all living things. You saw this world as an illusion but its here and is reflecting not just you but everything. That is life and it connects us all."
I had never thought of all this but yet it felt true to me i had forgotten the faces in the clouds i had gotten so use to trying to let go or to indulge in rituals that i had forgotten that there was this world all around me and it was beautiful
"What must i do?" I asked
he look to me
"You must do everything and yet nothing. You must enjoy life and for fill your needs but you must not be lost in them. You must look to the world with love not with pain and hate. You must not stop praying but you must not let it rule your life. You must balance all things and when you fall and you shall for we all do. You must learn and study why you fell then once you know continue on your journey."
"Why dont you tech this to others?" I asked bodly
"You have so much wisedom why just me?"
He removed his mask and under it was a young mans face. he looked to me and smile. At that moment i say it in his eyes I saw the source of all things. I began to cry and i could not stop my chest was warm and my stomuch turned.
"in the ten thousand years I have lived I have learned one thing that is never failing and never stops being true. We are all connected and when one life is touched so shall all lives be touched . Next time you shall touch someone and they may not take it in but it will effect them some way some how. Now go our paths met here but now they shall separate. Perhaps they may meet again but for now they shall break" He stood up put back on his mask and walked off
"A fool i must sound like, but a fool i am. I have no wisedom worth the food you offer me but I can tell you a fools tale and perhaps you shall find meaning in it"
A women prayed for days but her prays went unheard so she meditated for a month yet she could not find him. The wise man had been said to been siting on a rock pillar in the center of there village. She practice the rituals and did all of the teachings yet he still had not shown himself to her. The wise men of the village said they had seen him and spoke to him. They said his wit was of fools and his knowledge was that of a donkey.
One day while the street was crowded and she could not find any room she decide to go for a walk. In the nearby forest she came to a river and say a perfect place to do her daily ritual. She knelt down and offered a seed to the soil she then began to meditate once she felt connected to the source she then prayed
she lost time and place but could not loose self she could not find enlightenment. When again found place and time the moon was over head and a man sat across from her the man wore a mask and his clothes were tattered. She stared at the man confused and unsure who he was and what she should say. She simply stood up and bowed to him as she walked off.
She came again the next day to find the man had taken the place had been sitting only now there was a tree there. She was unsure if the man wanted company or if she would disturb the stranger who was obviously one who had given his life to this practice. A peach fell from the tree into the mans hand; he reach his hand out to hand it to her. She had been thought not indulge in worldly needs before prayer but it was as rude to decline an offering of food from someone who was without. She took the fruit and took a but the man offered her a place beside him. A unusual practice since under a peach tree was a place for only these who had found enlightenment but again to say no would have been rude. The man waited for me to finish the fruit before resuming his meditation once he began i also began.
"Tell me why to you wish to meet "the wise man" " he asked in a strange voice. The voice was soft but yet it pirece though you like an arrow. It went straight to your mind and made you excited. In the same moment it would then calm you and make you pounder every thing and nothing.
"I want to become enlightened." i responded
"Why do you want to become enlightened?" he preceded to ask.
I thought for much time. I wanted to ask how he had known but he could have asked any of the villagers they all know or perhaps he just figured. I then preceded to say
"i want to be enlightened so my life will matter and i may be happy"
"Your life is part of all life weather you are enlightened or not"
"happiness is a moment and nothing more" the man responded
"Why have you come here" I asked him
"I came here to meet you" he said
"What?! Who are You?"
"I'm The Wise Man and I have come here to speak with you"
"Why me?" I preceded to ask it more just sliped out
"I came here because i knew soon you would be ready to hear what i have to tell you"
"I shall tell you about enlightenment. Every one will tell you this is the one path to it and that all other will lead you astray. The truth is there are many paths and even the ones that lead you astray will always come back to the end. All of life begins in the same path and all will end at the same point. I once walked a path of Self loathing and Foolishness but it lead me here thus it was not all bad. The source/god/goddess/mother/father they all set you onto the plain with with no direction for it was meant for you to find your way back to them. When the source finds you wandering from life it gives you signs/blessings/dejavu's to help you find your way. No path is without a light and marked pathway. When you walk off of it you will only find your way to another"
I could only listen to him speak. I had wanted to hear his wisedom for so long
"I could tell you thousands of wisedoms but they would mean nothing to you. You must find your own path to enlightenment." The wise man looked up
"Look to the sky, so much yet nothing this is much like all of life there is so much up there but we only see it when it shine with stars or storms with clouds. as Children we see the world with true eyes we see the designs in the clouds and they mean so much. To see all the beaty of this world and to being one with it are both important. You search to lose self but yet you have never tried simply embracing the self. Truly loving who you are and all living things. You saw this world as an illusion but its here and is reflecting not just you but everything. That is life and it connects us all."
I had never thought of all this but yet it felt true to me i had forgotten the faces in the clouds i had gotten so use to trying to let go or to indulge in rituals that i had forgotten that there was this world all around me and it was beautiful
"What must i do?" I asked
he look to me
"You must do everything and yet nothing. You must enjoy life and for fill your needs but you must not be lost in them. You must look to the world with love not with pain and hate. You must not stop praying but you must not let it rule your life. You must balance all things and when you fall and you shall for we all do. You must learn and study why you fell then once you know continue on your journey."
"Why dont you tech this to others?" I asked bodly
"You have so much wisedom why just me?"
He removed his mask and under it was a young mans face. he looked to me and smile. At that moment i say it in his eyes I saw the source of all things. I began to cry and i could not stop my chest was warm and my stomuch turned.
"in the ten thousand years I have lived I have learned one thing that is never failing and never stops being true. We are all connected and when one life is touched so shall all lives be touched . Next time you shall touch someone and they may not take it in but it will effect them some way some how. Now go our paths met here but now they shall separate. Perhaps they may meet again but for now they shall break" He stood up put back on his mask and walked off
"A fool i must sound like, but a fool i am. I have no wisedom worth the food you offer me but I can tell you a fools tale and perhaps you shall find meaning in it"
Well thank-you im not so sure i really like this segment in his story Ive been writing about the wise man and his journey but and i just want to post this part but im not so sure....maybe im being hard on myself im not old enought to have wisdom i guess :P
This is certainly welcome here :-))
the path is not straight and clear to all, but it starts with realizing there is a path and you have given us a glimpse into one....yours. That is special :-))) So are you!!!!
Thank you!!!
the path is not straight and clear to all, but it starts with realizing there is a path and you have given us a glimpse into one....yours. That is special :-))) So are you!!!!
Thank you!!!
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