The Universal Blade

Spirituality is made up of meadows, mountains and rivers.
Along the extensive passages, we sometimes come across a few enclosures.
These are religions.

In these religious fields, this or that cereal is cultivated using a specific technique.
When the animal rises, even if one of these animals were to jump over fences, from paddock to paddock and investigates them successively, even if it had a paw in each enclosure, it would still not have frolicked in the landscapes of spirituality.

Religion is also spirituality,
Spirituality is also religion.

It is difficult for a farmed animal to get its freedom back,
To lose the clear landmarks that the paddock offered and discover the vast nature,
not to get lost by accepting that it has nowhere to go since it has already arrived, wherever it is.

Religion is spirituality,
The enclosure is within nature
Non-religion is spirituality
on the other side of the fence
still nature.

Then, breeding is a fiction,
Religion, through artefacts and mind fabrications, framing devices, creates the comfort landmarks, the security of the fence, too.
Going over the fence means to grow.
Finally finding maturity in practice.

There is also a way of leaving without leaving.
To be inside the paddock without being constricted by it, to find food and grow there safely…to learn there…

Sitting down in the grass,
And touching it with our hand
Seeing its universal nature,
Touching the universality of the nature of these blades of grass,

Then the enclosure disappears from our eyes,
Our eyes no longer see it,
The enclosure is no more.

©FJ Dec 2023
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