Just before dawn the black night lingers.  The light from within transforms my windows into a set of hazy mirrors.

The last day of the year.   An ending that promises a beginning.  Resolutions to make the new year different from the old.

All a crippling illusion.

Resolutions are our pretense that we shall soon bring forth change. Shuttling between imaginations of the old and the new, judgments of the bad and the good.  Living for the shimmering portent of a change that never comes.

If we say that we resolve to live differently in the coming year, we are already lost.  Such resolution is existence deferred.

Our life is here and now.  Each precious and unique moment.

I lift my head and in the time it has taken to write these words, the dawn’s glimmer reveals the natural world beyond the still mirroring windows.  I see fresh snow blanketing the…

His comment:
“The “leap of faith” you referred to resembles gambling because you are not 100% in on the outcome. Until you actually get the outcome. That’s probably why you couldn’t provide proof for me.”

My answer:
We are reluctant to investigate for ourselves, aren´t we…?
Cause if we unfold the path to self-discovery, we are never certain of the outcome.
We might win or lose…

Yet everyone wants to win, isn´t it so…? Who wants to lose…? We always want to play safe, don´t we…? – as we always want to have some gain, otherwise we don´t take the risk.

The very risk is to “invest” without having any guarantee as to the outcome.
That´s what Faith is about:

To learn to lose.

To lose it all…to empty yourself of any wish to follow anything or anyone – to learn to live with “no proof”, to discover…

Let us ponder a moment – linger with every question:

Does Time exist?…
What exactly is Memory…? Who remembers what?…”What” remembers who?…Why…?

Would time exist if there was no remembrance…? If time and memory didn´t exist, could we ever speak about “Culture”?…- think about this… as for sure, what we call culture is the outcome of memory.

If memory didn´t exist, we couldn´t possibly speak about conditioning either, could we…? “Why” couldn´t exist if there was no conditioning, as conditioning means possession ultimately. Again, no possession – no Why.

So if time, memory, culture, conditioning and possession didn´t exist, there wouldn´t be such thing as “Knowledge” either…Yes, Knowledge is possession. Our conditioned knowledge and thirst to possess is called Science.

Subsequently, if there is nothing to possess, neither What nor Why would be any justified viable issues.

Now, this being said, I ask you: as there is no such thing…

Let me tell you a big secret:

Take a moment and forget all the books and all writers. Forget Plato, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer or Aristoteles, forget Jesus Christ, forget Buddha, forget all the false or real prophets –  Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle, forget culture, forget about Bach, Beethoven and company, Leonardo da Vinci, Sting or Guns N´Roses, or roses without guns 🙂

Forget about science and history, the known and the unknown. Forget about your failures or successes.

Take a break from name, from thought and definition, from life or death,TAKE A BREAK FROM ALL THERE IS. Forget you´ve even read these words.

Stay with this un-created moment for a while. Know…and un-know…Breath in this freedom. There is nothing to fear…

If you have the guts to do that, you will encounter the most precious
and incredible person:

YOU

The You that knows no past and no tomorrow.