The zen of your truth

As I sat and read my twitter page throughout the day yesterday, I was looking for more enlightened people to follow. I searched different topics including Zen and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shaman and more. What struck me most though was when I searched the word "Spiritual" and found person after person using their twitter profile to promote some kind of ideal or magic fix--or they were trying to sell you something. They were hocking everything from a Mayan 2012 cruise to "free eBooks" to specially formulated incense--as if making your house smell like patchouli and vanilla would bring you out of the depths of despair and change your life.

Please let me give you a piece of wisdom that I have learned. To me, this is the key to walking the proper path. And that is this:

You already know the answers to every question you could possibly ask.

It's true! Every answer has already been given to you. You just need to sit quietly, put away your ego, put away your pre-conceived notions, put away old thinking, put away outside opinions (even mine, even this one) and listen. Listen to your mind, body and soul come together and every answer will be there.

Any "master" who claims to be able to give you answers, is not a master. A TRUE master, will simply instruct you on how to find the answers yourself. In fact, let me lay another truth on you. If anyone claims to be an 'expert' in zen or in spiritual guidance or in anything really--ask yourself, "What is their motivation for claiming that?" When you put yourself above all others in a particular field, this is a working of ego. This is a self-serving move that only means to elevate your own knowledge above everyone else. How can this be possible if we all know everything?

I look at it this way---If I believe, and I do, that time is not linear and that all things are happening right now, then I must believe, and I do, that I have all of the answers already. It is only a matter of dropping all of my other bullshit and reaching through the dark for it. I don't need an ego-driven "expert" to tell me what I already know. 

My mentor, the late Zhou Lin, once told me that my truth was simply a deep breath away. Close your eyes, and take that breath. Zhou Lin never ever said to me that he had the answers. He only ever said that he knows only himself and that once I knew myself, then the answers would be obvious.

If you were blindfolded, driven out into the woods and left there at night, you would know that are in a pitch dark forest--if you have ever been camping and walked away from the campsite, you know the feeling--you KNOW that the trees are there even though you can't see them. You didn't have to observe the trees in the daylight to know that they are there. Why? Because, gang--you're in a forest. Duh.

Same goes for the answers to your questions. Right now. Close your eyes. You know your truth is there without ever having observed it. Why? Because it's YOUR truth---it is YOUR forest. No one else put that truth there. No one else can ever change it or take it away. Your TRUTH will always be there...

No master. No Author. No blogger and certainly no "Spiritual expert" can ever sell you enough nifty incense to help you find your truth. Because the truth is, there is nothing to find. The truth is not lost. It is just waiting for you to take off your blindfold and find your way through the dark.

And just like a pitch dark forest, if you walk deeply enough, you'll eventually smack into a tree....

If you walk deeply enough into yourself, you'll eventually smack into the truth---

So put your hands out and start walking---

Peace to you. Be nice to each other!

Kit