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You have found your way home. But home looks more vibrant and real. The colors seem to sing. Life is a joy here. You are centered. Your spiritual center is under your feet. Joseph Campbell retold a tale of a letter from a Jew to the editor. The Jewish man was protesting why should he fight for a homeland in some foreign land in Israel when his center is where he calls home now. The immovable spot under the Bodhi tree, was everywhere. Where is the center on the surface of a sphere? No where, but everywhere. Where is the beginning and end to your journey? Alpha and Omega? I think WHERE IN KANSAS TOTO!
All you had to do is click your heels. You have fixed your foundation. Your vices are lost and no longer is the vampire welcome in your house. The garlic is left behind with all those old tricks, for the true power was always in yourself all along.
Did not the scarecrow have his brain? The child is free and the king is healed. The land is prosperous and green. The forest is no longer a source of anxiety. You are one with nature once more. Fear and desire are only memories. Aspirations are flooding in like never before. Work has turned to labor. Labor is for love, like birthing a child. Work is only a four letter word. You have found your calling and answered it. What that is, is for you to say, this web page is only a ferry boat to take you to the next shore. Trick was, the ferry always takes you back to the same shore you left, but delivers you a new perspective and life on it. Kansas to Kansas.
Like Sam returning to the shire, there is still more work to be done. You can choose to go to your own Nirvana, a place where no wind assails you, like Guatama Sidartha as a Buga Buddha, an enlighten one for oneself. Or come back as a Bodhisattva, like the youth in Bruce Lee's Circle of Iron as the David Carradine character did. The lead Bodhisattva is Mahayana or Avalokiteshvara, the lotus bearer. For within him desire, hostility, and delusion is gone.
The World is filled and Illumined by, but does not hold, the Bodhisattva (he who's being is enlightenment); rather, it is he who holds the world, the lotus. Pain and pleasure does not enclose him, he encloses them- and with profound repose. The Hero with a Thousand Faces; Joseph Campbell
Also there is the female Bodhisattva as well, Kwan Yin. The Moon Goddess is the same as our Mother Mary. For to be true you must be of equal qualities of Yin and Yang. But you may have a preference. Adam was in fact a hermaphrodite (Child of Hermes and Apphrodite). But until Eve was separated out of him, he was bored.
There is a tribe that takes a second initiation upon the return of the hero in Australia that actually subincision the male so he has a permanent cleft on the under side of his penis to his urethra that makes him more than a man with his penis womb. A little too much I would say....
You can remain in peace in your hearth and home, help bring others to this point, or feel these words "for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of God." That would be bad. You are at the sixth chakra. You can hold onto the power for yourself, move past this world into the seventh to never return and find Nirvana or come back to the fourth and teach. If you stay in the sixth, you may live happy in control of your life. But holding that power to long can lead some to devastate others with their will. For these they have not released or cleansed their egos, they have only cleansed the world in their view. They do not return to the fourth chakra where all opposites are equal, they make a larger world of us and them.
But for those who wish the small ferryboat to never return, that as you wish. To the others the large. You come back to teach and rejoice, that as you wish. For those to behold the gifted and the destitute, that as you wish.
But the Bodhisattva finds right belief, right intentions, right speech, right actions, right livelihood, right endeavoring, right mindfulness, and right Concentration. May many more of you journey on and read this site further as Bodhisattvas. For the other peace be with you.
For those who continue on forgo compassion (to suffer with) forever so you may pass on enlightenment to all those you teach. Give respect to compassion and make an ancestor out of it. R.I.P.
