Sunday, March 1, 2009

the kingdom of hell

In this shadow world we call civil-ization
you define yourself by your enemies.

Whatever the current stance you are taking
(and it IS a stance, not a free-flow of light and spirit),
whatever you are FOR is RIGHT
and whatever you are AGAINST is WRONG.

You felt the same way in your previous stance
(which you now perceive as WRONG).

All enemies are internal,
a higher teaching and understanding
that does not seem to have filtered through.

In your war with yourself,
you become like two cats
tails tied together
slung over a clothesline
clawing your own guts out in frustration.

You suffer from a deep internal division
from a crack in the psyche
a painful splitness
that shakes all built upon it to the ground.

From where does this splitness come?
Not from out there, not from out there at all.

If the kingdom of heaven is within,
so is the kingdom of hell.

6 comments:

  1. We are divided. That's all we know.
    Thanks to our Teachers.

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  2. We would not know divided if we did not know wholeness.

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  3. Thinking makes us think we are divided. But thinking doesn't make us whole.

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  4. such is the polarity of life! nice post.

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