Linh Son Literature - For the spiritual inclined and unconditioned mind

There comes a time where everything goes wrong in your life -- or not everything -- but one event that turns you upside-down. Some people panic and find the fastest way to become normal again. Others may go insane and depressed about it for a long, long time. There are the few who will begin to question their lives. For me, this deep questioning is everyday. Meditation is like learning to die -- bit by bit -- we learn to let go of things that once seemed utterly important but now is no longer worth a lick.

Why is it so hard for people to change? For an individual to leave behind everything they know and step into something new -- a new way of being, not worn down by mechanical habits and thoughts? Do we want to change? That's the scary question that I sometimes ask myself.

This blog is then dedicated to the inquiry of change and if it is even possible to let it blossom in our life and become such a natural part of us that it becomes second-nature, like the body breathing or the eyes looking or ears hearing.

Be aware of the man who tells you he is awakened. He will probably say all the things you want to hear and move your spirit in ways you have never expereinced before. But he can become a dangerous man, because he is the one you project as the upholder of truth. There is no one that can give truth to you and you cannot take it from anyone.

If you sit and meditate -- understand what it means to die. To die to your dearest thought and beliefs. To die to all those yesterdays -- the happiness and the suffering. Only then -- each inhale becomes a first breath and each exhale a last.