Stages of Nirvana

There are at least two

And quite possibly more

One is deep acceptance that everything is ok

That everything is as it is meant to be

Not in some big cosmic sense that everything has been preordained

Or some kind of map out of the chaos of life

But rather on the very pragmatic way of simply thinking that what is....is

And to simply fully accept that with open arms

All of it

Everything you encounter

Everyone

Is exactly as it should be 

I realize that

It feels like this would be complete martyrdom

But it truly isn't

Because when you start to look at it this way

It all becomes so easy

I'm not saying leave the unjust justified

Or don't follow the path of resistance

I'm saying quite the opposite

Although it may be hard to grasp

The path to righteousness opens up wide

When you live in a place of acceptance and love

Love is the other stage of Nirvana

To look upon everything with love

Everything (supposedly deserving or not)

Always

It is such a place of joy

It is such a place of ease

Deep inner peace

That no money can buy

No drug can reproduce

Quite so well

I'm guessing there are more levels I have never glimpsed

It just feels correct to me that this is so

And this is after all my life

Mine alone

You go figure yours out for yourself

Please*

*these last few sentences are only meant to those who need to shit or get off the pot. Get up off that fence and believe in something. Live by some code that truly resonates with you. If you haven't found it that is quite possibly because you aren't listening to your heart. Maybe you have forgotten how to hear it. So don't start so big. Start little. One thing at a time. At home. At work. At play. Driving. Working. Chores. Duties. Start trying to respond with (and listen to) your heart. When you stop following it; it stops showing up for the game. Or rather it's there but you've benched it so many times neither of you seem to know you exist anymore and what it's purpose even was. So you have to start really trying to listen. Intently. Takes practice. But you gotta get your heart in the game of life. It's the only way to truly win at it.

No comprendo

there are things that must be felt to be understood

Things such as discrimination

That until one has had a deep dark taste of

One simply can not fully grasp

So

To try to force people to be "politically correct"

To try to right wrongs

To try to correct problems

By forcing people into classes they don't want to take

Taking their "rightful" place and allocating it to another

Be it jobs

Education

Housing

What have you

Just seems to fester more hatred

Breed more contempt

Do I have the answer

No. no I don't

But I know it can be accomplished with compassion

More than by force

It can be gotten to by reaching people where it count

In their hearts

By making people see how much we all have in common

But the system isn't set up for that

Society runs contrary to getting along

It runs contrary to cohesion

And as long as we keep hating each other

Fostering contempt for each other

It will keep going

Down this vicious path

And the only way to truly curtail it

Is individually

One person at a time

Fighting the tide

Opening the doors of acceptance

Of understanding to another

So they may enter

When they are ready

And only

When they are ready

And accepting that some may never come to it

May never come to it at all

And being alright with that

And moving on

To affect change where we can

How we can

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For my people at Standing Rock

God be with you

For the people of Allepo

God be with you

To those suffering

Destitute

Innocent

My God be with you

My God be with us all

And guide us to find our own best version of ourselves

To shine the light on the path our soul most wants us to follow

The path to love

The path to our divine selves

The path of courage

May compassion reign

May peace be attained

May love abound

May acceptance And understanding be ever present

And may God lift us all out of the darkness