If there is a God
And we take the theological premise
That this God created everything
Then
Perhaps every creative act we undertake
Honours this God.
As someone once said:
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”
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The true revelation of the ‘mystical experience’
Is your utter estrangement from nature.
All you need to do is
Forget to remind yourself
Of your unhappiness.
With thanks to Anthony de Mello for the idea.
One of the problems with having a self-concept
Is that it’s another thing to attend to
Another thing to protect from
All the complications of the world.
Photo by MJ Klaver 
Try again,
And again
Until
You are dead.
And then
It will be
As if it had never mattered
At all.
If your ego is invested
In not being invested
Your ego is still invested.
In this way, ego turns ‘being more spiritual than others’ into yet another way to assert its devilish agenda.
In this way, the very idea of enlightenment could be considered a trap for the mind.
If your last desire was to be free of your desires,
You would still desire,
And you would not be free of them.
A catastrophe faces humanity – everything and everybody is doomed.
Some cruel twist of fate dictates that only you can avert the apocalypse.
To do this, you have to give your life in a heroic, but painful fashion.
No glory, just ‘the right thing’.
The choice comes down to dying now, in anonymity and perhaps doing the ‘right thing’. Or dying later, alongside everyone else, perhaps your loved ones.
You’d have no conscience to nag you because you’ll be wiped out with everyone else (…unless you happen to believe in some kind of meritocratic afterlife… perhaps)
Whatever good (or, dare I say, bad) that you do, will eventually be forgotten. The paper or hard drives that hold the information about you will eventually fail and never be replaced. The people who hold you in their memories will eventually pass away.
Knowing that, would you still be willing to ‘do the right thing’?
Can you find a better reason to do the ‘right thing’?
Is the ‘right thing’ even right for you?
When a spiritual system becomes more involved with behavioural control than matters of the ultimate, you could call it a religion.