The Desert

Spiritual aridity is the natural terrain of stillness.  So if you want to be happy, joyous and free, you might not want to take on any spiritual path that will lead to stillness.  Like a desert, stillness is naturally dry so don’t go to either for refreshments.  So why do many people still seek the stillness?  Because that is where you will find your maker, not the god of thoughts, dogma, story, but a NON-THING beyond mind and concept.  It is where you will find Union, a sense of oneness with all around you.  Characters defects, personal shortcomings, bad habits are a lot about “the other,” as in person place or thing.  With stillness there is no other.  But you have to get through the dryness, the boredom, the “what’s the use!”  It is a tough prayer and many of us only get into it because life is not going our way.  I now find stillness the only way, but my life got pretty messed up first and I tried a lot of control praying.  Anyway, today is not a dry day.