As with a god,
One’s self may be left at ease
Experiencing the majestic
Untamed beauty of the mountain.

Like a god, a mountain
May force man to
Transend the limits
Imposed on man by man;
May open to the man
Heights never before
Dreamed of;
May release within the man
Experience only before
Thought of; but never
Experienced.

A mountain, like a god,
Demands respect;
Demands knowledge;
Demands preparedness.
It requires not blind faith,
But true knowledge,
For within every nook
Every crag and every
Cranny, potential death
Awaits.

Like a god, a mountain
Forces one to come to one’s
Own terms within one’s self;
Like a god, a mountain
Looks down on man without
Condescension; without
Ridiculing man’s seeming puniness.
For, like a god,
A mountain knows that man
Within man renders the mountain
Itself insignificant.
For, like a god,
A mountain knows that man
Within man is a god.

Is not too,
Like a man or a god,
The mountain
God?

Each, as a person,
Seeks identity.
Seeking; looking;
Finding – making.

Each, as a person
Finds identity among friends;
Finds security in that
Identity;
Finds identity in
Their being.

Each, as a person
Creates and makes identity,
Based on relation
To the society
To be identified with.
Then assumes the same.

Each as a person
Needs identity:
A need of worth and value
Within a society
Not supplying the same.

A society cannot supply the same:
Identity must come from within.
Bonding one to this world,
Identity separates one from
Merging with all.
The identity of having no identity
Is the only one which all can share.
But the identity of having no identity,
Of being One with All,
Is the only identity which cannot be assumed.

Thought equals life.
Thought equals death.
Nothing equals Life.
Nothing surpasses Death.

Your sins:
More than what
Any one man-god-being
Could die for.
No-one has ever died for your sins.

In fact you live for your sins
For sins are just thoughts,
Misguided, distraught;
Thoughts unbalanced of
Desires uncontrolled;
Creations of mind
Exteriorized in time
And in place.
Events – objects:
All merely product.

The life
Now about you,
A precipitation of thought;
Allowing and
Necessitating balancing and
Learning and growing.

Only that being which created
The thought can balance
The thought,
And free himself from
Its return;
Only that being which created
The thought can nullify
The thought,
And free himself from
The lessons in
Control of Desire;
Only that being which issued
The thought can be
Born again to balance
The thought and
Learn how not to issue
Thoughts;
Only that being which issued
The thought
Will have spirit
Die for that thought
At birth.
At birth,
One’s spirit dies for one’s sins.

He whom it is claimed died
For your sins,
Died not to relieve you
Of your sins or thoughts,
But to show you that they are.