Failure of Recognition

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FAILURE OF RECOGNITION

--THE UNDERSTANDING OF SUFFERING STARTS

HERE—

There exists a realm of perfection. A realm created by

Power and Wisdom where suffering does not exist.

Suffering has no place in the realm of Power and Wisdom

because ignorance (the source of suffering) had been kicked

out of their abode.

Power and Wisdom were one and the same entity who

decided to separate their functions in the same fashion as a

government which even though is one body, separates its

functions into the executive and legislature.

In the separation of functions between Power and Wisdom,

Wisdom decided to lower herself in order to serve Power

even though she knew she was equal with Power.

By lowering herself to serve Power, Wisdom became the

sole conduit to Power since all of Power was in Wisdom.

ignorance was the opposite of Wisdom and that was why he

had no place in the perfect realm.

Wisdom was naturally humble and so lowered herself on her

own accord to serve Power.

ignorance was naturally prideful and tried to exalt himself to

the same level as Power.

Wisdom is the source of Truth.

ignorance is the source of Lies.

Wisdom through Truth has foreknowledge of all things.

ignorance operates retroactively for he has no

foreknowledge. Probability is the only tool available to

ignorance when attempting to display foreknowledge.

Wisdom sees the Truth in all things.

ignorance only sees the outward appearance of things.

Wisdom is not saddled with insatiable desire.

ignorance has an unquenchable desire called passion.

Wisdom is free of all things.

ignorance is yoked with innumerable burdens.

When ignorance with his myriad problems was kicked out

of the perfect realm of Power and Wisdom, he became

homeless with no place to reside.

He moved about aimlessly and restlessly looking for a place

to live for he had no ability to create his own realm.

As ignorance moved about, he discovered that a new realm

had been created by Power and Wisdom which was

modeled on the original realm of perfection.

The newly created realm was given its own version of Power

and Wisdom which they named little Power and little

Wisdom. Originally fashioned as one body, but later

transformed into two separate but equal parts of the same

body.

This was done to better reflect the original realm of

perfection.

After the separation of little Power and little Wisdom in

the new realm was completed, the newly created little

Power laid eyes on the newly created little Wisdom and

desired her greatly for he knew he was not complete without

his little Wisdom.

Other entities were created in the new realm to represent

various attributes of life.

The donkey was created to represent stubbornness.

The horse was created to represent majesty and gracefulness.

The deer represented speed and swiftness.

The eagle represented the all-seeing eyes of Truth.

The lion represented Power.

The snake represented Wisdom (this was because the snake

was given no hands or legs and yet was given the ability to

do things no other entity could. The snake did all these

things as a display of Wisdom, which needs nothing in order

to function).

Life was good in the new realm but ignorance was still

homeless and desperately looking for a new home. He saw

an opportunity to take over the newly created realm, so he

devised a plot.

ignorance understood the only way to take Power in the new

realm was to go through Wisdom.

ignorance began his agenda by first taking the form of the

entity created to represent Wisdom (which is the snake).

ignorance used this strategy with the intent to engage and

corrupt the little Wisdom of the new realm. For ignorance

understood that if he could corrupt the little Wisdom of the

new realm, he would easily corrupt little Power as well,

thereby controlling both little Power and little Wisdom

within the new realm and transform the new realm into the

abode of ignorance.

ignorance succeeded in his agenda of taking control of the

new realm from its inhabitants and established himself as the

sole authority of the new realm.

ignorance was successful in his plot because he put on the

outward appearance of Wisdom and thus confused the

inexperienced inhabitants of the new realm, for they had not

mastered the ability to look within for the Truth instead of

looking at the outward appearance.

If the inhabitants of the new realm had looked inward for the

Truth, they would have recognized the trick ignorance was

playing on them and not have fallen for it.

Unfortunately for the inhabitants of the new realm, their

inability to look at what comes from the inside instead of

being fixated with the outward appearance led to the loss of

authority to ignorance.

Once ignorance took control of the new realm, he brought

his belongings and made a home for himself in the new

realm.

ignorance was no longer homeless. His belongings which

he brought with him were; lies, suffering, pride, death and

many other fruits of ignorance.

Once ignorance took hold of the new realm, chaos was born.

Little Power got mad at little Wisdom and blamed her for

surrendering their authority to ignorance.

Little Power in his angry state became oppressive instead of

gentle.

Little Power began to look only for his own well-being

instead of caring for the inhabitants of the new realm.

Little Power even began to believe the reason he lost his

authority to ignorance was because he did not have enough

Wisdom by his side. Realizing the importance of Wisdom

in the retention of Power, Power began looking for and

attaching himself to multiple versions of any little Wisdom

he could find with the hope of getting his authority back.

It did not work. It exacerbated the chaos.

The original Wisdom from the perfect realm saw the

confusion in the new realm and so she decided to personally

come and get rid of ignorance and restore order by giving

the authority stolen by ignorance back to little Power and

little Wisdom.

But before banishing ignorance from the new realm, the

original Wisdom decided to personally teach little Power

and little Wisdom how to identify the Truth from within

instead of looking at the outward appearance.

This was necessary, for the original Wisdom knew that once

little Power and little Wisdom mastered the ability of

proper recognition by not looking at the face but the body of

work produced, they will never again fall prey to the

machinations of ignorance.

So, the original Wisdom came to the new realm to restore

the order but before she chased out ignorance, she had the

inhabitants of the new realm practice the art of Truth

recognition by covering their faces so that they might learn

not to look at the face but instead, the hands and the works

of the one they seek to identify.

It was a challenging exercise for the inhabitants of the new

realm to have to learn how to cover their faces, for they just

did not know how to identify the Truth without fixating on

the face and outward appearance.

Painful exercise? Yes. Was it necessary? Absolutely! For

without it, ignorance will try to take hold again by utilizing

the outward appearance to deceive.

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