Genghis Kahn's Horses

Genghis Kahn's horses 

the steeds escorting death across the steppes

fire

arrow

sword 

war axe 

gift to all the living

restoring to an earth

the silent restless plain

did not outlive their riders

Xerxes' horses at Thermopylae

those of the Crusaders and Conquistadors

survive blood shed 

as blood flows through progeny

wives and children weep 

the riders

ride on

Labyrinth

We are the Labyrinth. We are the savage beast confined within the Labyrinth. We are the tender virgin abandoned to be devoured within the Labyrinth. The hero capable of dismembering the beast, redeeming the virgin, and finding a place in light of the real world is our Self.

The daughter of the King is indeed Wisdom. It is Wisdom that knows the way and will lead Self to the light.

Meditation is the womb of wisdom.

Material Questions: this and that

For a very long time it has interested me that no one is particularly interested in the relationship of awareness to matter. The awareness that results in what we refer to as our "self" is made inevitable by certain arrangements of atoms. These arrangements of atoms are constellated according to cookie cutter preprograms that have refined themselves over a period of hundreds of millions of years. The expression of these preprograms has led to a creature whose awareness is capable of transcending its animal existence, and awakening to the fact of existence its self. This is a remarkable occurrence in the fabric of the universe. This is the universe awakening to its self.

And this all has to do with merely stacking atoms properly.


Why should that be?

Powers

One of the things that is mentioned quite a bit from India sources and not so much from China and Japan is "powers". As one's meditation matures and awareness can actually control the mind one has the ability to form artifacts of consciousness and project them. This has a certain appeal especially if the personality is still in control, but there is the element of unintended consequences to be concerned with. Personally I think that it is valid and even important to experiment with transference of will because it is undeniable evidence of awareness as a field phenomenon, but these techniques should be treated with the same respect as a loaded gun.

Its OK

It's OK to be a human being. It's OK to have idiosyncrasies and imperfections. It's OK to simply be what you are. We are not our personalities. Most folks are wholly identified with their personality and that's OK.

The personality is a behavioral tool kit. The human is a social animal born into a cultural matrix, and it will spontaneously create a persona chipped from the flint of cultural norms and shaped by native powers of invention. There is no other way to be, but it can be noticed that the personality is a necessary creation of and not the core of our being.

Meditation is a tool. One ancient master described it as "the brick with which one knocks at the door". The door at which one knocks is opacity concerning the human condition. The human condition is a manifestation of the awareness which is the universe. With the practice of meditation it is possible that the human condition become translucent to the awareness which is its progenitor. The door opens. This is called enlightenment.

It's OK to be a human being, but it is preferred to be an enlightened human being for enlightenment enables the abandonment of all pretense. The abandonment of pretense results in a remarkably quickened faculty of intuition. Intuition is the inner voice of clairvoyance, and could be likened to seeing in the infra-red: the things seen are made obvious by their presence.

There is no sense in making distinctions of red and green to the color blind. There are no black-and-white answers to questions that come in colors. A lot of people are color blind and that's OK.