~~~~~Walking Through This World~~~~~

So the ego looks for what it can possess
and That Which Is
just beneath that facade
looks for what it can give

living outside in
or
inside out

Life comes in many stages
and it seems every decade has a new
sobering outlook
on what is our impermanent life
here walking through this world
actually is

Jung said we spend the first half of life
building our ego
finding our place
in this world
and the second half of life
letting it go

living outside in
or
inside out

and so we live in thought
measurement and comparison
judgement
until that Life Within Us All
begins to break through
and by compassion we see
each one of us
had the same journey

pictured above
Jiddu Krishnamurti was lacing up his walking shoes
getting ready to take a walk
from his home Pine Cottage
through the Ojai Valley

and we all take our own walks
where do you go?
while the body is still strong?

and where do we go
when it no longer is?

living outside in
or
inside out

no matter who you are
this world is impermanent
you are impermanent
and so why is what the ego thinks it accomplishes
of any value at all?

the rarest of the things of Life
are no things

stillness
silence
kindness
compassion

all born of emptiness
consciousness born not of the ego
untouched and unapproachable
by thought

living inside out
or
outside in

awakened
scents of sanity
timeless
home

beyond the temporal dreams
of the dream ego
in this dreamworld
we all pass through
and awake from

was life inside us
all along?

when we were looking
outside?