Zen Rants II

Truth is a word, like apple. 

Apple is not an apple is a word. 

How do you define an apple?
"the round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin red or green skin and crisp flesh"
But that isn't an apple either, that is just the definition of an apple"
Only an apple is an apple.

If I say "I've eaten an apple this morning" you know what an apple is because you have eaten apples too.
Try to define "apple" to a being from another planet with no fruits and trees.

How do you define truth?

The definition of truth” is the definition of truth.

Any other definition of “truth” would be not true.

The One is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Lies do not exist. A lie is just the absence of the truth.

When the truth is present lies disappear like the darkness when the light is present.

Confusion and ignorance are the qualities of the Ego.

The “I” doesn’t lack anything. You already know everything you need to know, you already have everything you need to have.

Poverty is a quality of the Ego

Scientifically speaking you don't exist, and neither anybody else for that matter.
When you look in the mirror you see a highly structured bag of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and a whole bunch of other different atoms.

Technically you are nothing but talking solar dust and so am I.

Technically speaking we are the universe talking to itself.

So who is "I"? What is this “I” everybody is taking for granted?
Has anybody seen it?
Has anybody seen a picture of their mind?
What proof do you have that what you call "I" exists?
Is God a dream of your mind or is your mind a dream of God?

The body is the domain of the Ego.

Like the body, the Ego is limited, imperfect, fragile and temporary.

The “I” is not limited by the body. The “I” is perfect, indestructible and immortal.

Science is the creation of the Ego.

The wisdom of the “I” is Spirituality.

The “I” believes in God because it knows God.

The Ego doesn’t believe in God because it cannot understand it.

You cannot teach and learn faith.

When the teachings of our Ego fail to deliver the promised success we return to faith.

Spirituality is the path to happiness.

The material path is the path to living hell

You may not understand it but you know that to be the truth, because you are experience it, here and now.