Ramblings for the sake of rambling.

 What will it be? To live to the fullest or to die in ignominy or worse yet, a non entity, like an insignificant dust in the wind...what will it be? The choice is being laid before you and it is up to you to pick up the Gauntlet and slap your opponent with it. This is how a warrior perceives his life to be, no grey areas, simply all Black and White. The  truth is laid bare not hidden behind radiant colors. This is what created the interest i have black and white art, movies and stark landscapes like a field of snow in Wisconsin or a sea of green in the summer months when the corn fields stretches as far as the eye can see. One has to have truly tasted these divine sights in person, one will have a little harder time to appreciate the miracles of God. How can there not be a Creator?! What arrogance to believe that I am capable of being responsible for all these that I am witnessing! That I am manifesting. OM Nama Shiva Ya! AllahuAkhbar! Namo Tasa, Bhagavato, Arahato Sam sam Buddha Sam! There has to be, I am a servant to That, does not make me any smaller than I already am, but it helps to keep my ego in-check. I cannot climb any higher than I already am I am as close as I want to be next to my Lord, God, Allah aza wa jalla! How can I express any more plainly than I already am, 

                                           Don't mess with the Sabre!18th. century British Steel.

If you have been with from the beginning of this journey you would by now have seen the Real behind the Unreal, The Truth behind the Facade and the Form behind the Emptiness...it is like a message on a broken record repeating its line again and again, till your mind is  'comfortably numb'! This is the Way of the Buddha, just to 'Ride the Gravy Train!!" This the Essence of 'The Art of Living!."  "The Middle Course Way," it also sometimes called too. Every Tom, Dick and Merry has his or her Way these days. I am as guilty as charged! What is life without a little sin here and there to taste what karma is all about? Not just take the Dalai Lama's words for it, d your own experiment, find out! A hermit was once to have been said wae so pious and sinless that he had to steal a little bread from the kitchen every morning to keep himself from float off into who knows where. This act of a small sin keeps him nailed to the floor, centered and present in the moment always. It was not that serious as I made it sound but this was his choice to remain in this realm and help others to become liberated from this life of pain and suffering, an illusion of a dimension.  

                                                  They say there's a Buddha living up there!

This is exactly what I am leaving behind me as i step into this New Year of 2025...enough of trying to justify myself over and over with no justification in sight. This is where I step back from the edge and reevaluate my situation, I am doing my Spring Cleaning! Time to remove all that is not relevant or necessary and replace them with who knows what...time to enlightened my burden and letting go of not needed baggage. This could be my final pilgrimage in this life, a journey that needs to be done if I am to keep my spiritual practice stay strong and resilient in the coming year, if I make it through this year 0f 2025. Year of the serpent, of the snake, of Wisdom and Intrigue, Year of shedding of the skin and renewal. Be aware that you do not awaken the Serpent Power or the Kundalini energy from within you, if you do, learn to handle it and use it to save the world! Otherwise stop bragging! The serpent of wisdom coils around Lord Shivas' neck and shoulders sitting at the most highest throne next to Lord Shiva. The Serpent drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. It is the serpent that sits upon the Pharaoh's crown  in place of the Third Eye. Yes, the snake, call it by what name it is still creepy! When Aaron threw down Moses's staff to the ground it turned into a serpent, then two of the Palace Priests threw their staff and two snakes appeared and they fought and Moses's snake ate both the Priests' snakes and end of story. Rameses the 2nd was forced to let the Slave People go! The Jews! No Israel yet at the time of Pharoah, only Hebrews, No Judaism, nor The Torrah or the Zabur, none existed yet until Moses went up the Mountain and came down with the Ten Commandments that it all happened. Today we are called the People of the Book. All of us, Jews, Christians and Muslim alike we are the people of The Book and what is most tragic is we all worship the same Being that some call God...etc. The truth is in the scriptures, the devil is in the details. 

Don Juan Matus and Don Genero meeting at the infinity pool at the end of the Penang bridge. The Nagual is taking the picture. All having a goood time at The Light'. Ever heard of Carlos Castaneda? He wrote a book on separate realities and many others on the Yaqui Way Of Knowledge. I was drawn to his works while in college in the 70s. I am proud to say that I touched the edge of the Sonora Desert on the borders of Arizona and Mexico. Driving towards Tucson from Silver City would place the Sonora Mexican Desert on my left while the rest of the United States on my right.  Don Juan Matus was  Yaqui Warrior/Shaman who befriended a College professor who was doing a research paper on the Ways of the Yaqui People of the Sonora Desert. I read all of Carlos's works and was very impressed with all the similarities that we have growing up in Malaysia...The Altered States of Consciousness while under the influence of natural stimulants such as the Mescal brew, or the Peyote Button ingestion, or the Hayawasca mixture, is a key to opening the doorways into the next dimension or an altered state of consciousness. 

What has the picture got to do with Carlos and Don Juan, they were just evoked that image from my unconscious mind and so I write. Its my way holding on to the present as is despite all that is going on around me. I am absorbing all the vibes and images, all the aches and pains, I am feeling, I accept and surrender them to the Universe where they came from. The past still have a hold on my consciousness and every so often I have to give in and meet with an obligation that needs to be fulfilled, karma is karma sooner or later one rises to the surface and  one deals with it. This is how I believe we repay our abuse of karma. However good karma is good karma and will outshine negative karmas anytime, just have to be aware of it. Yes Awareness, that famous last word of Buddha's practice; AWARENESS!