This morning I read the news. Not one good thing. All was bad news. News to trigger. News to stir emotion. People rejoicing in the suffering of others. All was bad. Sitting in silence, observing, I knew that I was that. I am that. Everything I witness is my own projection. The Light I seek is shining upon my inner sanctuary and reflects the shards of my karmic glass. These reflections paint the color of the shards imprinted, and my world takes on the hue. All is a projection. All is empty.
“Why try to improve anything,” I ask the Guru within.
“You must see things as they are, before you can help.”
“I write about things to change people, to sow the seeds of a new perspective,” I protest, to defend my past articles and argument.
“People require the karmic seed to change. You can not give someone the path. You can only give a perspective. They must have the seed to change or else it will not happen. Nothing can be forced. All bends to the will of past action [of body, speech and thought].“
“If I witness someone who chooses illogical conclusions to bypass compassion for need… then what?”
“Then, discover that problem in yourself. It’s there, because you witness it in others.“
“Never should I instruct or engage with others to realign their perspective?” I ask.
“You are limited as long as you work from this angle. The true leverage is on your own perception. Once changed, then everything shifts.“
To work on my own perspective, as the inner Guru or Guide tells me to do, is the path of observance. Even meditation gets in the way. One must observe without thought and emotion. To see and experience, while under the openness of guidance from within.
“But I have changed, after being influenced by the reason and logic of respected teachers, professors, and spiritual leaders.”
“They did not change you. You changed you. Your alignment is a product of your karma. You have changed a lot, sometimes circling and reversing your path upon itself, it may appear chaotic but in the end it is the simple reaping of karmic seeds. Your life is sowing new seeds each moment. Your experience opens to the degree your past allows. Become a meditator. Give up meditation. Follow a spiritual society. Then another. Then return to meditation. Take on natural observance instead of meditation. All are seeds opening a door for you, as you are capable of receiving. Even the master, even I, am a result of a karmic seed. I too am a projection of your own nature. All is empty. You are that. You are me“