The Fire and The Flame Never Ends

One comes to know that living is as a candle with its fire gentle burning because of the blue flame that governs its vitality and therefore its lifespan. I see the candle and its fire and flame equivalent to the living experiences of when one candle burns its course and withers away, another candle is made a flame in love for the sake of enlightenment.

It is a clear insight into the fact that nothing is permeant as the same movement implies that nothing remains impermanent. I once was looking at the morning sun and of how the clouds were in harmony with reflecting the light as if the entire heavens were of a magnificent flame and the universe had explained to my mind that to still my mind and not compare what I was observing to another time of observation; but to completely see the moment as it is and take it inside because I would never see this again. It was telling me to embrace it fully to my ability of complete acceptance and to understand that it is not a time which to hold on to because what I was being shown was something living, moving and possessed an intelligence and a universal wisdom in which no artist can capture completely. And, it was telling me that since this is a time which is not permanency, then I was to learn that to embrace things as they are, is also in the same movement a time to let go.

The predictive mind is an arrogant mind and one that is destructive to its own peace and stability and therefore in time will suffer the plight of having to be made humble by means of what could be perceived as a time of cruelty. We have the choice of coming into the understanding of things by way of allowing the universe to show us its nature of which we call “mysteries” and learn in humility or we can assert to know what is indeed sacred in its movement and learn upon the perception which seems cruel. Despite having the common understanding of matters transpiring beyond our present comprehension understood as cruel, we in our arrogance and lack of humility usher these times upon ourselves for the sake of leading to the same objective conclusions. I find that the vitality of humility is the greatest gift for learning of the life journey without having to suffer so much turmoil that is brought only upon ourselves, by ourselves.

I have after so many years of learning have come to understand the greatest answer of when a sacred experience has been placed before me when someone ask me a question of what something is, “I don’t know.” Allowing your own gift of humility to allow your living experience to be pleasant and not troubling by asserting to know the fundamentals of what is sacred, opens the mind and spirit to the truth of all things without it being contaminated with information accumulated of the past. The candle is lit for another journey of learning until that fire begins to burn its course because of the governing flame in which guides its living life force.

Continue to be the fire and the flame

David Anthony Brayboy