SEEING THINGS AS THEY ARE
For the one who sees through the
play
becomes an outsider to the
players.
And that can be a lonely position
indeed.
Alan Watts
When you see clearly, you are
free.
And freedom is always worth the
cost.
Once you see
you cannot unsee.
You laugh while everyone is still
busy pretending.
You wake up but the dream of the
others continues.
So you are different
and sooner or later
different scares people.
Your danger today may be your
gift tomorrow
but you must survive the in
between
and that requires
humility.
The world is based on
agreements
but that agreements are not
truths,
they are conveniences, collective
fictions.
Success, career, social status are all costumes.
Life is like
dancing.
Do not try to explain a dance to
someone who insists to sit still.
You cannot always share what you know.
So see it
differently.
Do not reject the
world.
Do not isolate
yourself.
Do not declare you
superior.
Just start to live more
deeply.
Do not rush to change
others.
Let them dream. Let them
play.
They will awaken when they are
ready.
Awakening must rise from within.
People do not like mirrors, they
prefer masks.
When you reflect their shadow
they may shatter you.
Not because you are
wrong
but because they cannot yet bear
to see themselves.
The truth cannot be
destroyed
but the messenger often
can.
You must learn to reflect gently.
Hold your vision
lightly.
Do not turn it into an
ideology.
For the moment you do, you are
asleep again caught in the illusion of being
right.
True seeing is flexible, playful,
compassionate, it does not cling.
The secret is:
Presence
You are here, now, breathing,
watching, alive.
1. patience
2. humility
3. playfulness
Be aware, the ego is
cunning
even after
awakening.
It may whisper: You are special,
you are above them, you see what they don't.
And the moment you believe
it,
you are asleep
again,
you are trapped in a subtler
illusion, that of superiority.
So do not claim to be awake or a
sage.
Embody a way of being, people
cannot ignore.
They may not know why but they
will feel it.