July 24th

Clarity


Can you see a sound?
Can you hear light?
Can you unite your senses?
Can you turn inward?

What we are all seeking is clarity. Forget about religious rationalizations. Forget about elaborate explanations. What we all want is clarity. What we abhor is ignorance. Ignorance confuses us, brings us misfortune and sorrow, and makes us miserable. If we have clarity, then we can live with equanimity.It is a misconception that spirituality brings everlasting happiness. There is no such thing. Sadness still comes to the wise, but, unlike most people, their clarity of mind allows them to see beyond the temporal emotionalism of the moment. They are farseeing, and so happiness and sorrow become the same to them.
True clarity is more than just being smart, more than just being wise. Clarity manifests from meditation. It comes when you can unite all the faculties of the mind and unify them into a magnificent light of perception. It is hard to talk of this in anything but mystical terms. Our language is unfamiliar with the frontiers of the spirit because few have ever seen those limits, let alone described them. But let's try.
If you unite sound with vision, then you will create light.
That light is the concentrated force of the mind.
It is by that brightness that truth is revealed.

Personal Interpretation


We all seek clarity in this world and it can be difficult to come by. Many things conspire to make things less rather than more clear. The very nature of reality often seems at odds with the lessons we learn and attempt to internalize. Our senses deceive us. We don't possess the language to talk about spiritual matters in any significant way and we must think spiritually if we are to disentangle ourselves from the briars of everyday existence. Time is simply time-past, present, and future are human constructs. Likewise, happiness and sorrow are part of the same fabric. The wise do not despair when hardship rears its ugly head, for they know that it will pass. We will never have all of the answers. We can seek them though. We were made to seek them. And as we seek, we should also accept things as they are and trust in spirit.