View from chapel window, Pizzaonian Monasteries, Pizzaonia
What to say and how to say it has always been the problem. To seek the polite way of communication, that is to speak with an acceptable voice that resonates with politeness and deference, is often the way of the coward. This may seem harsh to most, but I am amazed at how many times we hide behind politeness. Since politeness is considered a virtue, it becomes an insidious and convenient mask for cowards.
The obvious problem is that politeness often masks the truth by diluting it and making it palatable, and in so doing, it makes the truth less attainable. Once this habit of politeness takes root it helps to establish a belief system that seems very comfortable with its delusion of heroic qualities. The problem is the truth can only be masked so long, and if you are very lucky, the sham you really are will finally appear in all of its glorious ugliness. For many this is the beginning of their personal salvation.
The problem with salvation is that no one really knows a lot about it. We certainly hear a lot about it, but consider the source. What does it mean to be saved? Be assured while you will be reading about the conjecture of salvation here, I doubt if you will know any more about it when finished.
Nevertheless, I will muse on hoping to find some grain of honesty in my self that will make this journey through this mortal coil meaningful to me, and perhaps in some indirect way, to you.
Notice how language already is getting in the way. The words flow as if they have meaning, but to this point they only allude to the problem without directly confronting or defining it. This is what happens to most musing. It always ends in the same place.
How then to approach the self that lurks beneath the sheath of consciousness? That self that gives up little of itself and still controls so much. Perhaps a good starting point is to question our virtues and see why we consider them virtues and if they in fact accomplish anything other than a “feel good mentality.”
How much delusionary goodness is allowed to exist because it makes us feel good? If you look at how morality is sold to us today from the moralizers that preach the current subject of the day, how much of their words call us to sacrifice, call us to do without, or to give up the impossible? Not many, for if they did there would be few takers and they would soon be an audience of one, themselves.
All truth demands sacrifice. Without sacrifice one wonders if humility is possible, since humility is the beginning of the search for truth. For with humility the eventual confrontation of self with all of its delusionary traps is inevitable, and because of this it marks the beginning of the journey into the darkness and eventual light.
However, like the expectant worm in the cocoon, you wait in the darkness in joyful expectation of becoming a butterfly.
Brother Franco, musing from Pizzaonia, for "The Pizzaonian," a division of the Pizzaonian Newsertainent Network, Diverti Mento, editor
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