Personal Path

Everyone has a story.

People don't just arrive in this place of enlightenment in the same way as people don't just arrive in the place of misery.

There is a path, a progression of holding on through fear, or letting go through fearlessness or love.

By not understanding the reality of being we build a life around ideas and concepts, fighting to maintain our view against a world of different views. The frustration and disappointment is enormous and soul destroying and so we fight more and more, and sink further into our own fear and unhappiness.

Letting go requires the bravery of jumping into an abyss. We don't know what can happen, but intuitively we know there is nothing to lose. In fact we never fall, we fly, we glide we become weightless.

But this takes time and determination.

Dhamma is precious. It is not a weekend course or contained in a best selling book. Reflect, how could it be?

Dhamma is not simply a collection of new ideas or new devices and techniques to apply to your life. It is not a covering over of your insecurity by applying religious rites and rituals. Dhamma is the path to full liberation, and no matter how intelligent you are, you cannot think your way to peace. Peace, harmony and love are far beyond the thinking rationalizing mind. Dhamma is the emptiness that is filled by love, by compassion and by joy.

This is a path worth walking.

May all beings be happy.