The Church

The interior of the building was all to familiar. Seating that faces an icon of worship. A raised area for the pastor and his assistants. It was for those people who are of various ranks within the hierarchy of church politics. The all too familiar organization of religious pursuit which provides a path toward continued illusion. People reaching out for purpose and belonging. They cannot see truth for they are bound to the defined, a mentality of seeking and acquiring. One can only find conflict within the confines of organizational authority. Authority that sets one apart, the divided, those who know and those who don't know. It is cultivation of the authority of self, the duality of that which is the beginning of all psychological violence. Can a person see, realize, the futility of following a system of religious ideology regardless of its tenants. To create a position within the confines of an already limited intelligence. A position which invariably develops into the conflict of opposition. It further alienates a person from the actual reality of the moment. The absolute moment in which all truth resides.

We attend church because we want the comfort and illusion of "knowing". We want to escape the realities of a life filled with conflict and uncertainty. We long for the permanency of something that will give us hope and provide security. But the true reality is that there is no security and life is totally without predictable certainty. Despite what an apostle, astrologer, psychic or seer er may tell you, each moment is the new and never before. It cannot be predicted or willed into existence. "You" may be predictable because you are a slave to the known, but the reality of the moment cannot be predicted. When living in the known, all that you see is projected self illusion, the fantasy of knowing. If one lives in the unknown then change is a possibility. In the absolute moment you see through your own illusion, the conditioning of a mind that is tied to the conflict of the past. Now transformation comes, uninvited, which is never the result of a mind that is seeking to change.