The Book

Does a person read for entertainment, to learn something or as an escape or distraction from ones life? I was asked why I do not read books. It seems to me more important to live life than to read about it. Shouldn't I, if I am at all serious and passionate about life, find out the truth for my self. Should I be influenced by the opinions of others, the musings of the clever and resourceful. Would it not be better to have original understanding. Then it is my truth, my own realization, which has a depth of understanding that transcends the interpretation of a book or a lecture. You have to find truth that is not the product of thought and of knowing something. Truth is original and in the moment, not something that is a result of what is read or otherwise accumulated.

So many things in life are prompted by the following of personalities and ideals. We are bombarded by a media that wants to entertain and influence. We believe that we are following our own independent mind, but the reality is that we are controlled by thoughts seeking and its conditioned fallibility, which are the accumulations of all that we have read and been taught. Freedom that is the realization of the origins of our conditioning, is the only thing that will create the capacity to understand beyond the limitations of exposition and accumulation. You can fill you head with all sorts of platitudes and systems, the opinions of the so called enlightened and spiritually adept, but you will be no closer to realizing peace and love that is beyond all imaginings. The truth is in freedom that is without origin, design, influence, conditions, rules or anything that is the product of thoughts defined limitations. When all else is not the truth is.