Time of the Seasons

All creatures have a time of seasons within a season. In our season as human creatures we will experience the seasons due our humanity and within that ebb and flow, mature according to the sway of fate and destiny.

We find in some creatures a culture passed down through generations that cannot be recreated whole cloth anew. When mountain goats were reintroduced to precipitous environments from which they had been extirpated the results were disappointing. They fell to their deaths. It was discovered that mountain goats "learned" the mountain from their forbearers, and that without such learning the mountain was as treacherous for them as for any other newcomer.

With the advent of written language and the technical advances of publishing, the wisdom accrued through all of the seasons of humanity is available to almost anyone. It is to fate and destiny which narration of path will strike a chord in the season of a given individual.

The path leading to the awakening of Awareness is seldom trod, and for those with talent and potential there are many diverting byways in which to pass the sunny days of one's season.


And after all, Time is the first and foremost illusion.

The Problem With Enlightenment

The problem with enlightenment is that it means what ever the user of the word wants it to mean. When we speak of the Supreme Enlightenment which is the awakening of Buddha Nature, the problem with enlightenment is that aspirants imagine themselves becoming spiritually accelerated people. The fact is that their imaginings are like unto a driver imagining him or her self as a fancier car.

The problem with Enlightenment is that what has become known as Buddha Nature transcends not only our humanity, but our existence as animals.  So how is an animal that imagines Enlightenment as an adornment to it's humanity ever to cross to the other shore?

An ancient Master once remarked that it is like a mosquito trying to pierce an iron bull. He then went on to describe how simple it is.