this is the work...

oh men, women

i write today of this freedom 

that sits silent, blessed with light 

how can one get to know it? 

by moving away from the noise that plays 

in the head constantly 

one must do this or there is only a consuming 

of this ego nature always 

without a break 

which takes one one a journey that is based in self/ego-affirmation

it takes one on a journey that leaves no freshness to flow 

into the spirit 

it takes one on a journey that keeps the soul without sustenance 

of light 

it takes one on a journey that forgets what is righteous 

oh soul 

this is the reality 

for without the purity of light, one is confused in thinking 

what is seen (with the physical eye) is the truth 

and feels that there is only this concrete world to hold to 

with all it's ups and downs 

yet this is the illusion that keeps one revolving here 

it is the one that has courage to move away from this drama-mind 

that can begin to see clearly what is true and false (or transient)

if there is no buffer there that one can see, then the soul is taken

unaware and without knowing on this ride of maya 

this is not how most want it, yet feel this is the way it is without question

the one that is courageous will not let this happen so easily and will

continuously draw away from this mind-stuff and rest in the moment 

it matters not the experience that is taking place, this is the work 

no different whether the experience is good, bad or neutral

yet the experience that is pleasurable can be much more difficult to 

draw away from because the soul desires to repeat it

but those difficult ones, oh love, 

those experiences one is not eager at all to repeat

and will do whatever possible to get out of it and never return 

this is the blessing of suffering that comes to those that remain set

on coming out of it at all cost 

for the mind really is a thing that one is attracted to out of being familiar 

like a friend or simply a part of who *i* am or what *i* am composed of 

including this gross body 

this is the thing to be looked at -- God did not tell you this for sure 

so we must look at this fallacy and see that thoughts rise, fall, have breaks

all of it -- look, look..... question without taking any answer to be the truth either

for this will prop one up in another way and another set of belief systems 

will be adopted..