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People die, young and old they die, all phenomena changes form sooner or later. In the midst of the agony of impermanence we try to find meaning in the horror, we try to find “reasons” for living and for dying. But these “reasons” are not actual reasons but rather “methods” of coping with this unfathomable Mystery of living and dying and to handle the misery it brings.

Here I am typing, and here you are reading at exactly the same moment, yet in a totally different time!

Once a story is written and published it enters the realm of “time”, the story is ever happening, yet it is not, for it is a closed book! To enable the story to enter the world of awareness it needs a reader. But while the book is closed the story is ‘there’, ‘here’…, happening all the time all at once! The story is happening at once before we read it and after we read it, but reading it adds experience to it and with experience comes the dimensions of past, present and future. Yet the closed book is outside-of-time-in-time, within its pages is held past, present and future all in one and its timelessness remain independent of any amount of reading! Or does it?

The phenomenon called ‘Time’ is not a clean, clear-cut event, but a very intriguing concept coming to think of it. To me, the concept of time is a measuring device of movement, among other things anyway. Another name for time is change and it is rather fascinating to think that change remains the only thing that never changes!

What is this endless clinging to form?

Denying the changeless of change?

Embracing Death in unconsciousness?

Let go!!!

Open your heart!!

Empty your mind!

Be free.

Another word for change is experience! Experience implies duality, and duality can easily become hell if not understood. For better understanding of the nature of duality imagine meeting a Martian. It  It will be your duty to explain the experience of taste to this being; you must help him to understand ‘sweetness’. Your verbal explanation will obviously have no effect whatsoever seeing that no-body can taste words!

You will have to give him sugar to eat. But the experience called “sweetness” will evade him regardless of how much sugar he eats, until you give him one drop of bitterness.

The moment he tastes bitterness the whole spectrum of taste enters the domain of his experience!

This implies that our misery is our ecstasy wearing a mask and that the exact same thing that makes us happy today can very well be the cause of our un-happiness tomorrow.

It will truly be a hidden curse if we become happy on a permanent base, it will not be long before your permanent happiness becomes habit and then it loses its spark permanently.

When something becomes habit it changes into an unconscious act. Forgetting that you are happy is synonymous to a life not lived, and a life not lived is worse than death!

It is good to remember that every thorn once was a flower. It will serve you better to work towards a state of “inner silence” rather than happiness. By inner silence I mean inner peace, full acceptance of everything inside and outside of your-self. This acceptance does not apply to the future, seeing that it is rather silly to accept something that has not actually happened! The past cannot be changed; the fact that I have typed these words can never be undone because it happened! Even if the world explodes and everything on it returns to primal energy the fact remains that I have typed it!

So accept yourself, accept your shortcomings and your prejudice of the past. To make peace with the things that we cannot change brings a great relief in the psyche. This relief gives us power of control over our attitude! Right attitude is the Magic Wand that does the rest. With right attitude we can change our emphasis of the past, which will change the emphasis of the present, which is the blueprint of tomorrow. Right attitude gives us sobriety and when we act out of sobriety we act with understanding. We are the creator-gods of the world and right now we are creating the future with our attitude towards our lovely planet as well as our attitude towards our fellow beings. I have heard a saying that the future is held in our children, well that is not true, for the future is held not in our children, but in our attitude towards our children!

This was the birth of AZA, a word of Hebrew origin that means to kindle a little fire. May the intent of this article kindle a little flame in you, and may it become a consuming fire that will ignite the Love of Mystery in every soul! AZA is also an acronym for Arcana Zona Arcana that means the Mystery that encircles the Mystery!

THE DREAMER

Behold the Dreamer for I had a dream;

Of Fairies and Dragons and Mermaids in a stream;

Of Great Stones standing;

And Unicorns landing;

In a land of forgotten beauty;

In a world where people cannot be!

I dream of fallen trees;

Dying forests and polluted seas;

Of the Great broken Stones;

Midst dead Tuathan bones!

But then I wake to find there’s still some;

Who plays the Magical Drum;

While our Earth Mother wipes Her tears;

For an Azan’s love banishes all her fears;

I will break lock and chain;

Experience death and pain;

To restore a dream that’s been;

The best life for the Dreamer!

With love, Eugene Halliday(Original poem by Eugene)

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