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Through falsity you cannot reach the truth

Whatsoever you have-fame, money, knowledge, prestige-that is not you.

Your possession, doing, achievement are with you just as a circumference.

But the center is your being.

Your being precedes all doing and your possessions.

Unless you realize your being, yourself,

You will remain in circumference.

Unless you realize your innermost center,

You cannot reach to a blissful state.

" Were you ever authentically in love?"

" Have you done anything ever authentically yourself?"

"Or have you been just following others, just following orders?"

"Do you love your mother?"

Have you really loved her? Or are you just doing a duty?

Because it has been said,

Because it has been taught,

So you are loving and your love is following.

Have you really loved any time when you were there authentically?

Was it ever the case that no teaching was working

And no other was being followed?

Once again, were you ever authentically in love?

You can deceive yourself1x

You can say, "Yes1x"

But find out before you say anything.

What can you do about real love?

Can you practice any method for how to love?

If you practice, then your love will be false1x

It happens, it cannot be practiced.

In love the other is important.

In love you are thinking how to become an instrument yourself.

In love you are going to sacrifice yourself.

Love means your happiness is not at all concerned.

Love means how to give something.

If you have loved, you would be transformed.

The particular act of love would have changed you.

But it has not changed you because your love is false.

Your love is not authentic,

Because your love is just following others,

Because your love is just following orders,

Because your love is not your own,

And the whole your life has become false.

You go on doing things that are not your own.

If you love Jesus Christ, do your own way1x

Love Jesus Christ, but do not imitate1x

Love Buddha, but do not be his carbon copy1x

Please, do not imitate their ways.

Always allow your own self to move in its own way.

One day you will become Buddha-like, Jesus-like,

But you will have traveled along a different route,

And you will have experienced different things,

Because you are unique and of course different with them.

One thing is certain.

Whatsoever may be the route and whatsoever may be experience,

It must be authentic, real, and your own1x

Then you will reach one day.

But through falsity you cannot reach the truth1x

The falsity will lead to more falsity.

Only through your own things, you will grow.

Actually, it is easy to be false in big things.

You can be a saint if saintliness is expected and respected.

Then you are on exhibition-just like show window exhibition piece.

Only through your authentic reality you can encounter your God1x

By Sang-Bong Lee, Ph.D.
Philosopher & Poet

All rights reserved and copyrighted 2000. Reprinted by permission of Sang-Bong Lee.

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