9 Mar
The Dreaded, Body-Mind Divorce.
A marriage with the unseen remains dubious. The body-mind entity, a determine opponent seeks a permanent connection.
Sadly, the force of unreasonable desires, unobtainable happiness, and chronic worry; believes it owns me.
I blame only myself. I conditioned the beast with chronic lies of, “I Am This,” and “I Am in Control,” dialogs. The marriages to these falsities, both sad and distressing, currently obstruct my egotistical divorce. After years of professed devotional commitment, ego refuses to permit my exit without a fight.
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“I Want Out”
Spiritual freedom from an egotistical marriage comes at a lofty price. Our true nature, a foreign invader to the egotistical mind, meets furious resistance to become our new mate. Sadly, in the beginning, we fight aside the ego; believing its lies that began in our youth, we fight against divorce.
The quest for self-identity, began at an early age, and soon, flooded our existence. Our family, society, and world, all shouted! “Who Are You?” Who we were, and how to insure our personal title, regrettably, attracted the flirting ego. For some, our quest for self-identity propelled insatiable and unreachable desires, so unobtainable; only a lie would work. Therefore, we married a lie.
Our infectious marriage to the ego, erects a house of illusions. For example, some ego’s tricks, (1) desires just out of touch, (2) happiness always fleeting, or (3) need just one more break and everything will be fine.
The ego produces only unresolved past issues and hopes of better future for the mind. It floods the mind with unobtainable requests, remarkably, turns around, and then, provides the anger for our dissatisfaction.
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“Leave the Keys on the Dresser”
Possessed by our cyclical unsatisfied mind, we proceed through life, a married malcontent with a closet full of disguises. Some people, like the author, possessed numerous disguises, at my height of delusion, people in my life, wondered about my sanity.
They did not know who would show up, the pseudo-happy brooding breast or Mr. Unrecognizable. So many identities, required countless disguises, I lived in a marriage of lies for years.
My divorce, from the egotistical mind, hard-hitting, and undecided, but I experience new conscious experiences, which boost my faith. A prescription from one’s egotistical divorce may rest in text or advice, but reality of separation, all you. No one can help you with the process.
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“How to Start Over”
You must free yourself. The person, whom said “I Do,” must challenge the ego marriage alone in spirit. External supplements are of no value, things like praying, meditating or yoga are egotistical props.
A clever egotistical trick, salvation placed in nice-appearing entities, oldest trick in the book. “You Are What You Seek!” Stay in your heart, change your consciousness and the divorce from ego, will occur. Your natural being, needs no instructions for excavation, you will find truth, when you look for it.
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The Invisible Dragon
8 Mar
“The Sin Remover”
“Do you feel anything? Nothing. Absolutely, Nothing!”
The Invisible Dragon, replying to a television evangelists.
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Refresh the Spirit
Wash sin away with the water, I was told. Several friends swear by the practice, steadfastly insisting, water removes the horrors of misdeeds. I got wet. A low audible mystic mantra, a friend persisted, wash away all dreadful transgressions. After several mind-numbing minutes, I forgot why I was mumbling, and in addition, the incoherent jargon frightened me.
Close your eyes, and listen to the heart on a city park bench, and sin, vanish. After filling out the police report of my mugging, I tossed the practice. Read the Koran, and Allah will take away sin, I received a full-cavity body search, while flying to Cleveland. I am positive; the airport official had a wedding ring on before he…oh God! I shudder to imagine, where it..Agggh!
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Sin No more!
Stop eating pork! There rest your trouble, your filthy diet! I like goat. Can I eat goat? Yes, what a foolish question, my friend shouts back. God cleanse all things, except pig. Trust me on this, it is complicated, God and pig have issues.
Give away all your position, live in a tent, in the middle of the desert, and follow us, another friend requested. The first night, several people became really ill after drinking some punch, so I called home for a plane ticket, another body search, ouch!
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What are Friends for?
I have friends who suggest sin remedies. Over the years, I tested some and contested others, all the while, seeking “the fix it” to my soul. ‘
There remain more friends and sin remedies; the search for total sin annihilation, my noble cause. Out there, somewhere, a cure, I travel the world over, looking for the elusive spell.
“The Sin Remover.”
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Disclaimer: This story, absolute humor, it is not intended to make light of anyone’s religion. Just a short, comical, and insightful look inside the universe.
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The Invisible Dragon
6 Mar
Gods and Our Selfish Motives
I imagine, we are all selfish for some acceptable reason. My children garner my undivided loyalty, protecting our communal relationship is a reasonable cause; one that requires no explanations.
As well as, my relationship with my wife, she would not be ransomed for the universe. And so, without wavering, I refuse to compromise our relationships to secure the relationships of others. Am I alone in this predicament?
By the way, I demand autonomy to follow my own intuition. And so, whatever those suspicion may circumferences, to discover my inquisitiveness minus commentary or disdain would be commendable. Freedom, to be wrong, right, or insanely childish is a God-given right–would you not believe?
I want my God, my Way
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I define my own existence. As a child, I seldom desired following another person’s perceptions, my Mother’s view at times were often discarded. I was a ravening freedom manic at conception; I did not want to be led. For example, I steadfastly dismissed her demands to accept religion. In its place, my freedom to create my own God. Am I alone in this predicament?
Are we not ultimately coerced by family, culture or tradition in selecting deities? The reasons are often complex, yet simple when concerning the selection of Gods. I also predict, selections are self-interest rationales, which suits personality, characteristics, and cultural norms, more so than faith.
The Perfect Fit
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In other words, we select Gods that best evoke our contentment. Our spiritual selections are not based on facts or physical excavation of unearthly religious artifacts. The Godly engagement, most likely occurred, while being guided by parents, prodded by friends or in your bedroom after a night of unprotected sex.
Some select Gods that resembles humans, statues, or silence space, but ultimately, Gods who care. Do we not warrant our selfish Gods? Deities, where if one did right, the deities would do right by us–did we not negotiate a deal for our obedience? Happiness, acquisitions, and ever-lasting eternity the supposedly ill-gotten gains for keeping the faith. Is that such a bad deal? Am I alone in this predicament?
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The Invisible Dragon
4 Mar
Can Man Truthfully Teach God?
All words may be fallible. Whether spoken, written or insinuated by hand gestures, words are the representations of a person’s thoughts.
More significant, words followed creation, this is not debated; in the beginning we sought words to describe our environment.
Words originated with grunts, art painting on walls, external object display, group movements and eventually morphed into language.
What does this mean for the Dragon? I have no clue how to describe my source. In other words, I am not pompous enough to believe my words are more essential than a television minister or a drunk pushing a cart.
Words Misguide Us
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As a matter of fact, I believe words are the least dependable foundation to spiritual restoration. I posit, the howl of a lone wolf says more than a million men speaking about their knowledge of God. Words embed perceptions, misconceptions, truth, and lies. When are we truly positive words convey nothing more than, “I know what’s best for you” in these men and women.
The Dragon’s tongue reflects the ego mind and a spiritual consciousness interchangeably at times. I do not profess a secret to Tao, God, Source or the mystery. Finely dressed in an Armani suit or resting atop a leaf, I would not have a clue about God. The only clue I have is that I have no clue.
This may be unsettling for some because written words recited by men say otherwise. I will not contest their opinions or facts, surely they may be right. However, as aforementioned, I do not have much trust in words concerning the unseen.
I Trust my Heart
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Consequently, my spiritual restoration desired no traditional stories or ceremonial rituals passed down through time. I selected or my source selected, a path of darkness for my spiritual edification. 
I had to retrace my steps to a time before birth. The experience was the hardest expose I ever endured and it continues presently. The experience can be described, poorly perhaps, but what “I AM” is free of the rules of language.
I trusted no person and found “I AM.” I sought everything, and discover nothing. I surrendered to darkness, and surprisingly was surrounded by light.
You see, again words are tricky, confusing even when spoken by the Dragon. However, if one profess mastery of the unknown, I retreat into the darkness.
In the darkness, man’s words do not exist, that’s where “I AM” always free with my source.
Whatever that source may be.
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The Invisible Dragon
3 Mar
Where is Your Kingdom of God?
My self-realization remains a mystery to define and a route too unbelievable to conceive. A short glimpse in my past would produce a steady stream of mental agitations rightly suited for a psychopath. I like many for years lived a life driven by a ravenous egotistical mind and body.
Fortunes, fame, and acquisitions propelled my life, my mentality. I would fail immeasurable amounts of times with egotistical attempts and try again. I desired an external definition of self-worth and this went on for years; I was a perfect insanity. Also, my added attraction to competition drove me recklessly to boundless universes of despair after my failures.
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“The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. That is all that needs to be said.” Ramana Maharishi
A Stormy Sea
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The chase my ego navigated nearly achieved its purpose, self-destruction. My obsessed mind of endless attachments, constant thinking, and mental restlessness positioned my existence for an exit. Fortunately, my path to spiritual awareness was also ignited by this burnt out life, and remarkably, my spiritual restoration would take place on earth. Thank God.
“The kingdom of God will not come if you watch for it. Nor will anyone be able to say, ‘It is here’ or ‘It is there.’ For the kingdom of God is within you.” Jesus
I never prescribed to the acceptance of a mediator to find my kingdom. Whatever path God would gift I imagined it would not be an earthly norm. The world religions saturated with their complex systems of angry Gods, restricted diets, forbidden wearing of clothing and Hell would not accompany my inner-journey.
I AM…?
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I sought a definition to “I AM” without obedience to another’s interpretation of God. Trust me, this is a road less-traveled, a mature mind must be unobstructed by man’s ideals of God.
To pull someone out of the mud, you must first step into the mud yourself.” Hasidic Master Israel Baal Shem Tov
If the kingdom of God is within me, as Jesus and so many spiritual teachers profess, than I had to go into my mud and bring myself to the light. I had to save myself.
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Tao Te Ching Verse 7
The Master is available to all people
and doesn’t reject anyone.
She is ready to use all situations
and doesn’t waste anything.
This is called embodying the light.
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What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man’s job?
If you don’t understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret.
Dragon will talk later about Kingdom.
The Invisible Dragon
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