The Yoga of Getting In Your Face

BE A MONK if you want to; but if nothing is real, what is to be gained by accepting or rejecting anything? The outcome of each moment is simply the resultant of all possibilities converging at that particular time and place; that is all. The final result is what it is, regardless of what anybody thinks about it. Right and wrong do not enter into the equation.

On the other hand, nothing really happens without the participation of an observer. People will tell you, quite correctly, that you must accept the moment as it is, yet its very existence is dependent upon your perception of it. Thus life becomes a kind of Rorschach test that reveals you to yourself as reflected in the mirror of the world as you see it.

Perhaps, somewhere, there is a place where tender souls who always turn the other cheek are justly rewarded for their compassionate forbearance; but I doubt it. Life on the street is like life in the jungle. Sometimes the best spiritual practice is the one that is keeping you alive.

The wheel turns and whatever is beneath it is ground to dust. Each moment, and the next, is indelibly stamped on the face of Eternity; and that, as they say, is that. The sun rises, the lion roars. Are these things
any less sacred than a monk's humble prayers?

Peace.