Straight road.

The moment I met true Vipassana training and the loving guidance of my Master, I never looked for something else. Even from the first moment I recognized it as the greatest blessing in my life. An untainted way of love and awareness leading to the absolute and perfect liberation from the insidious corruption and subsequent suffering of the desire and fear based mind. 

Dhamma is already complete and needs nothing added to it, and all the disciple needs to do is stay on the path. Just one simple thing, do not allow the mind to distract you from the step by step journey to liberation. Each new thing, ceremony or fashion that is added to the purity of practice becomes a pollution and ultimately a barrier to self realization. After all, it can only be 'self' who is dissatisfied with the intrinsic simplicity of love and awareness and everything new we add or pick up merely becomes one more thing we will have to release in the future.

The more we speak about it the more we show our lack of understanding. The more we try to convince others of its value the more we show our frailty. The more we bring it into our lives, the more we wander off the Path.

The Buddha is my great hero, not the mystical being from the legends but the being who showed the smile of ultimate freedom, beyond religion, beyond rites and rituals. This simple and straight path is available to all men and women who wish to be free and it's only requirement is that we always face the Dhamma and resist the Mara mind of distraction.

 

The path is straight, but people love to be side-tracked.

(Tao te Ching verse 42)

 

May all beings be happy.