Suffering

Why are we afraid to think it?

--- This level of creation --- it is hell.

Do you think you will offend God?

--- Really? 

She made it, you know.

There is only One.

If hell be the inability

to connect, to think,

to be as One,

then this is hell.

Violence and enmity,

murder and hatred

splatter the fields and cities

red with blood --- every day ---

And we kill and destroy creations 

meticulously, wondrously fashioned by God

in order to eat and live

one more day.

But who’s morality?

This must be hell.

If heaven is the Unity of all beings,

and if hell is the separation of beings,

the inability to connect,

to empathize,

to love…

then this must be hell.

We fight against all odds

to survive, to remain alive,

to function in health

as myriad demons pick and taunt

and eat our flesh,

trying to destroy this body

by any means.

So we suffer in pain.

They pollute the mind,

and so we suffer in kind,

trying to create a “norm”

--- smoke and mirrors ---

our culture and gods

tell us we ought to be living.

And yet we fight back.

And we idolize those who

rise above the limitations

of handicapped minds and broken bodies.

Is this virtue?

Or is it because we have truly forgotten

who we are and where we are?

This is hell.

And YOU have surmounted

the evils thrown at you.

Well, good for you.

Here's a gift certificate.

It seems no one really knows

the “best” way to live –

we have fought all through history

about it.

We’d rather kill for a bindi,

a tallit, a rosary, a burka

or head scarf,

a concept 

(My God is better than your god.)

or even a word 

(What's YOUR name for God?)

or the arrangement

of words.

No one knows.

Does anyone really WANT to know?

Is violence and suffering

the name of the game here?

If this is hell …. then …

This is hell.

Great suffering

punctuated by

momentary joys,

short-lived contentments,

and even shorter pleasures.

All of history ‘s sufferings

are not worth

one moment’s regret or resentment.

You suffer because I want you to.

I placed you here to do what you do,

to play out a scenario,

to add to the tapestry

which is … Me.

Don’t like that idea?

Tough – then don’t believe it… for now.

But the time is coming ….

Joel knew.

The cries of souls unheard,

clanging against peals

of insane laughter,

suddenly sound

before piercing thru the smoke ---

--- to Samadhi ---

--- to Unity --- to One.

Enter, Rejoice, Come in!!

Welcome!

We’ve been waiting for you …

to come … Home.

But I know what impels you,

and you will be back.

And maybe you empathize with these ideas,
or maybe you'll vomit and never read another word I blog,
but it is what it is.
So make the best of this day - create a joy, live a contentment, experience a pleasure, invite another into your intimate world. Let's get through this hell. Maybe we can go home early.

      agd