Truth Pilgrimage

"the pilgrimage is true,

it's the pilgrim who's false"

Let it sink in. If we are to understand that it is the journey that's important, not the destination, we must begin to think about what the journey is.

If the journey is to be about anything other than merely living your life and I deeply believe it is, what is the journey? Is it a search for truth? Or is it the truth? And can we find it inside of us? Or is it us....?

I think you know the answer. I think I "know" the answer. I don't think I can tell you.

"the Tao that can be told is not the Tao"

Deep in the fiber of your being, is your being. It's elusive, bogged down in shoulds and oughts that must be peeled, layer by layer, with outrageous thinking, outside of society's box and inside the core of non-thinking.

So many will roll their eyes, giggle a bit uncomfortably and negate it with a "oh that crazy Linda, there she goes again". Or a legitimate "this hurts my brain too much to try and figure out". You just can't touch it, it slips away like mercury....you have to just keep circling it and letting it settle. It will settle in the place without words, without description, without the pilgrim.

We will all come to it on our pilgrimage, sooner or later, when we stop looking for it. Like Buddha, when we give up the search, it will find us....

"and ten thousand doors will open all at once and you will see in all directions"



Jesus said, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

The pilgrim is the mountain. Faith is the pilgrimage. Truth is the Way.

Journeys take time. And patience. And focus. And practice.

Godspeed.