To be Free

What is it; to be Free?

As a person who idealizes an open mind.
I listen to myself speak; and when I hear assumptions
creeping in to my beliefs, I challenge those assumptions;
I laugh at them because they embarrass me.

I want you to know that The Bhagavad Gita is a bible to me.
Word of God on a battle field. Bibles are our deepest metaphors.
Literal worldly language has no deep spiritual value.
The only true battle is a result of our delusions;
Our wound of separateness; the conflict within us;
Because we belief what is false to be true.

I'm no genius, but I'm determined to end my exile from knowing what is.
And on this journey I'm not sure of much but what I write here,
I'm sure of.

This I'm sure of;
War is wrong.
Supporting war is wrong.
Justifying war is wrong.
Excusing war is wrong.
War is a demonstration that we are wrong.

Caring and compassion is right.
That is to be truly human.
To war is demonic, and it is evil.
It springs from ignorance,
But ignorance is no excuse.

We are born to learn how to express our humanity.
We must learn to worship wisdom and love.
When we lie about it, we taint it, we spoil it,
we loss our sense of humanity.
Religious people should be more careful,
In their words and deeds.
For in carelessness we defile the name of God.
Only when we speak the truth can we be forgiven.
Our God does not judge us, only we judge.
We walk a razors edge, when we fall from the truth,
We suffer, we bleed, we go to hell.
There to find the endless war we always seek to justify.
In war we condemn ourselves to suffering.
War is the hell of our own creation.

God is love which is based upon wisdom.
Our only salvation is to be wise and to act out of love.
By ignorance we condemn ourselves.
In wisdom we find unending love to share with all and thus receive.
I pray for us to honor our God; awaken in love and become truly free.

Bhima Noel