Although actions can be deemed as good or bad, no individual is wholly one way or the other.
Take your journey in life, imagine that each year is a translucent cube stacked directly on top the previous until you're miles above earth. Now, imagine the top block, your final moment as a being, as enlightenment. You are now perfect. One may seem that as being wholly good. However, time is not measured as now, and a being is not measured in their current state alone. Stand on the top block, and see through your final year all the way to your first. See past your first year, see past your birth and look at what created you. Analyze everything you have ever been. More correct, everything that has become you.
The plants from The Garden of Eden decayed into the same dirt as Adam and Eve.
Every form of life thrives on the same water.
Saints and criminals come from and return to Earth. Every individual is all searching for its' own path to happines. Some people call it heaven, others call it nirvana. Some people search for enlightenment others for some place to find peace within.
Every day is a new experience, something necessary for each individual. Teachings only take an individual so far, it is necessary to break free and learn through trial and error. There is nothing better than experience; no better teacher than time.
Do we dare measure a person? To do so we can not examine their finish alone. We must look through time, peering into what they have been and what they are. But how is that possible when they have been exactly what we are, and will be exactly where we are?
It is human nature to find happiness, and one day we will all find it, for we search all of our lives. Who are we to judge a person based on their distance traveled.
There is no paved road to enlightenment. Reaching it is no accident, and requires backtracking time and time again. The journey is one that must be created, not replicated. Look into your life, before you lived. Imagine your life after you live, and after everybody lives. If we all find enlightenment we will be exactly the same way we were as we began.
The journey is the destination. |
Submission Name: Returning to the Source
