The Wise Layman

THE WISE LAYMAN

THE LAYMAN WILL LAMENT:

TO TRY TO KNOW THE MIND OF GOD IS TO BURDEN THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT WITH SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.

IT IS TO TORMENT OUR COMPLEX BUT FRAGILE MINDS, A PART OF US WHICH WE DEFEND SO SOLEMNLY.

HAVE WE NOT ENOUGH ISSUES WITH THE SIMPLE DEMANDS OF LIFE? SHOULD WE NOT LIVE IN AWARENESS THAT THIS EMPHEMERAL TIME AND ENERGY THAT IS ALLOTED TO US IS FLEETING? 

WHY IS OUR BELOVED GIFT OF REASONING SPENT ON THIS UNKNOWABLE?

THE WISE MAN WILL REPLY:

KNOW THE MIND OF GOD FIRST. THE REST ARE BUT MERE DETAILS THAT WILL UNFOLD THEMSELVES IN DUE TIME.

 WHO IS IT THAT PLACES SUCH STRINGENT DEMANDS ON YOUR FEEBLE MIND?

WHO ARE THE ONES SAYING THAT THIS INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND INDESCRIBABLE UNIVERSAL BEING IS ASKING FOR OUR APPROUVAL? UNDERSTANDING YOUR PURPOSE, YOU’RE EXISTENCE, THE VERY ESSENCE OF LIFE ITSELF IS TRIFILING AND FRIVOLOUS.

IS IT NOT FUTILE TRYING TO MAKE SENSE THE EXISTENCE OF SPACE, OR SILENCE? YET WE KNOW IT IS THERE.

THE LAYMAN WILL SAY:

THE WHERE, WHEN, HOW AND WHY, ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE DEEPLY IMBEDDED IN EVERY CELL OF EVERY FIBER OF THIS SUIT OF FORM AND MATTER.

THE WISE MAN WILL REPLY:

  AH, BUT THEY COME NOT OF THE FLESH, BUT OF THE FORMLESS. FOR THESE SIMPLE BUT PROFOUND QUESTIONS ARE AT THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE TRUE NATURE OF WHO WE REALLY ARE.

THE LAYMAN WILL SAY:

THESE SELF EXALTED ONES, WHO SAY THEY HAVE FOUND THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS, HAVING ACCEPTED THIER CONCLUSIONS AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH. THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE TO BE OBSERVED SUSPICIOUSLY.

FOR THEY ARE DECLARING TO THE WORLD; LOOK, I UNDERSTAND THE MIND OF GOD, FOR I HAVE BEEN CHOSEN AND BLESSED TO RECEIVE SUCH DIVINE WISDOM. I HAVE THE INSIGHT IN REVEALING ALL THESE MYSTERIES OF THE AGES.

THEY WILL STATE; I KNOW WHERE IT ALL BEGAN;

IT BEGAN WHERE NO ONE CAN PROVE ITS EXISTANCE.

THEY WILL SAY; I KNOW WHERE WE CAME FROM; WE CAME FROM THIS PLACE THAT NO ONE CAN PROVE.

THE WISE MAN WILL REPLY:

WHERE WE COME FROM, IS WHERE WE WILL END.

THROUGH OUT THE AGES SOME CAME TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR OWN, THAT WHERE THE WIND WAS BORN WAS OF NO IMPORTANCE. WHEN IT WAS PRESENT, IT WAS UNDENIABLE. WHEN IT WAS GONE, IT WAS JUST A MEMORY.

TO BURDEN OURSELVES WITH SUCH A TRIVIAL DETAIL IS NOT ONLY DISTRACTING TO WHAT IS PARAMOUNT IN LIFE; IT IS HARMFUL TO OUR PEACE OF MIND, THE TRANQUILITY WE SO DESIRE.

 CAN YOU SINCERELY, IN ALL HONESTY CONVINCE YOURSELF THAT BY KNOWING THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION, IT WOULD ENHANCE YOUR LIFE IN ANY WAY? WOULD IT REALLY MATTER?

THE LAYMAN WILL SAY:

WHEN DID TIME BEGIN?

 THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY WITH MUCH PRUDENCE, THAT THIS QUESTION HAS NO BEGINNING, AND WILL HAVE NO END.

THE MORE ONE PONDERS ON SUCH A BELIEF, THE MORE ONE BECOMES DUMBFOUNDED AND ASTONISHED AT WHAT SOME WOULD SO EAGARLY ACKNOLEDGE AS THE TRUTH.

SOME WILL TEACH THAT IT IS IN OUR BEST INTEREST TO ACCEPT THIS WITH OUR EYES CLOSE.

WHAT IS MEANT BY WHEN? WHAT IS THIS CONCEPT OF TIME?

 COULD IT BE THAT IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE GRASPED? 

THE WISE MAN WILL REPLY:

WHEN YOU HAVE BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THIS QUESTION, YOU HAVE BECOME AWARE OF BEING, YOUR TRUE NATURE OF WHO YOU TRULY ARE.

TIME IS BUT AN ILLUSION. IT IS THE EGO’S CREATION.

 WHEN ONE CAN SENSE, FEEL, AND KNOW WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY, THAT THERE IS MORE TO THIS MEAGER EXISTENCE, THEN, AND ONLY THEN, WILL ONE COME CLOSER IN RECONIZING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

 SOME WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE IN IGNORANCE, UNAWARE THAT THIS NOTION OF TIME IS OUR OWN CONTRIVANCE. IT IS THE MIND’S CREATION.

YES, OF COURSE, THE EVIDENCE OF TIME GONE BY UNMISTAKABLY LEAVES ITS MARK ON THIS MASTERPIECE.

 NO ONE CAN DENY THE PROOF OF DETERIOATION OF FORM AND MATTER .NO ONE CAN REFUTE THE ENTRENCHED LINES IN OUR FACES.

BUT THE QUESTION STILL REMAINS; WHY MUST YOU BURDEN YOURSELF WITH THIS PERPLEXITY? WOULD IT NOT EASE YOUR SPIRIT IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS AS IT SHOULD BE?

THE LAYMAN WILL CRY:

 YES, I HAVE DONE THAT.

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