Why seek happiness,
When the quest only defines sadness?
Breathe deeply thrice,
And realise this moment suffice.

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Live first at peace with yourself. Discover your spirit, then your true nature, work from the inside out; arrive at your new ego last with a new realisation of oneness and compassion for all life. The new you and new others will come together to form new influence over anyone you interact with. By understanding your own true nature first, you discover the nature of all and you will carry this with you in every act until with a world of newly awake people we will have evolved into a heavenly reality and not the hell most people claim to see on earth now.

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*deleted* very long and rambly.

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[Things Te would say.]

Heaven and hell are only experienced by us in life. You could have been a mother of a bomb victim or a young father in Africa of a family all with AIDS. You could be miserable because you care about something someone said, even though their intentions, reasoning, your comprehension, mood and more stood between them and you, you chose to occupy a negative created by your interpretation, you chose! You could be an old man by a lake fishing, wearing ancient clothes, and a huge contented grin. You could have used your brain, looks, physique or a skill to make money. Your bank balance could have over 8 digits. You could be anyone and you are just that to someone. Let us act as one and feed the world first, then form an economy afterwards and stop acting with individual importance, no matter how small or controlled it seems, it’s there. Yes you have desire; you want to be who you want to be. So do. The world is made entirely of great people who will live together joyously when they are free from influence which places them at odds with others. The actual guys in the armies fighting for fabricated (you know better than to deny this) reasons are guys who eat drink and think about sex and want to be happy. That’s the guys on both sides, they don’t really care which group of oil barons gets a particular contract, even if they don’t go to the same church. Why do we show allegiance in war when we would never kill a child, to a country who enforce tax and law on us including laws not to kill? Like we need telling! Why accept the reasoning? Why are these soldiers killing each other for men who wouldn’t even enter a fist fight themselves but do so want control of a certain flow of cash? Those ones who stand above us and decide there will is best. Leaders, are acting with an unchecked lust of result, they have decided that their thoughts are, in the main, correct and just and that countries and people of the world or small companies and people of the world can depend on their perception and desire over their own free will and wishes. They occupy these roles because we service them, by voting or not, we let them in, respect their claim of control, accept their reasoning and any action even when children die and millions starve. While we know that the majority of people interested in power mean well, they cannot bring about anything coherent or lasting, will make mistakes, and will be biased. This is not due to the minority affecting them, but by the impossibility of building static rules for a dynamic. Although anyone with the desire for rule should be filtered wisely if for no other reason than this desire, we are to believe that the best ones get the job. Even so the best intentions to rule without complete adaptability will fail some people by overly benefiting others and as people vie for a position in this fabricated divide we instantly develop a vast canyon of separation. The flow will absorb interference and unwittingly our actions will have effect, perhaps never connected or seen for years. But if you are still missing the evidence all around you…!

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[End.]*

Yan and Yin realised Nirvana a few years later. They experienced a similar offering from nature and with Te’s guidance they knew there was no better way.

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All live in the Garden of Eden now. They will all die a natural death and meditate to the one they are so aware of, painlessly, with joy, as and when that natural part of the ripple occurs. The escape they all found was that ability to reach the state away from the pain of attachment and not following ideals set and perceived by others but realising everything has its own nature. Everything is at its correct point at any given time because it can only be that way. Whether sprouting, budding, flowering, cross-pollinating, going to seed or wilting, you will always have your root in nature.


*(Not quite. there are 47 parts.)

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He assured his parents that their choices in life and in lifestyle were good. Their choices regarding him had not only given him a chance of rebirth but had vastly enriched their existences. He assured them that there was a way and their path was a good one.

Yin and Yan lived out their years in harmony with nature. They spoke to Te using a meditation technique. Yan learnt much of science. With age he grew more spiritual, after all he had had some experience of religion now! And science, his life’s love, did hold answers that people in his mindset needed. One day there would be one answer for all, it would account for conciseness. Yan learnt that his own viewpoints were not entirely without merit. Just, maybe, needed, some of the words changing, and some new ones adding in their place!

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Back at their paradise camp Yin and Yan were overwhelmed with a vision, Te appeared to them both as if really there, and he communicated. He gave them both the most helpful and heartening news, he had seen the illusion they call life. He had been made aware of their plan, was happy to say it had found its most fitting conclusion, and was grateful for the gift of viewing their human lives. He told them that his life could have been no more pure and that it was not death but Nirvana, the escape from Samsara; or more importantly the realisation that Nirvana and Samsara are the same, and in this way he had been shown a gift few people in the modern world would ever enjoy.

Without saying too much Te explained that without the constraints applied to the few billion people all over planet earth, escaping the constraints of Maya to reveal Nirvana was the natural way for a human to enjoy bliss and exit life as we know it. Enlightenment was there for all of man until a few thousand years of progressively more ‘modern’ thinking. The pollution of the mind and the constant battle between the polarity of right and wrong were leaving most souls in an endless loop of existence. Many people were not aware that escape from the extremes perceived in life was to view their own apparent relativity to them and their merely conceptual boundaries then escape.

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As his parents sadly pondered their actions, Te went to a part of the island only he knew of. It was a waterfall of intense beauty secreted in the heart of the island. Te knew that this was the best time of day to be there. The waterfall was in shadow most of the day but at noon the sun shone down through the water creating a heavenly image of twinkling droplets and shafts of light. Te leapt from the top of the waterfall, a daily bit of fun for years now, but this time not. As he fell, nature told him that his life could get no better. With no chance of a mate, he had served nature in the best way possible-. Te realised there were divisions and choices in life. As he accelerated towards the plunge pool, he was given visions to comprehend. He chose what he understood to be fair. Falling now at almost the speed of the water his mind and body began to fade from the four dimensions of the world around him. By the time the splash should have occurred Te realised Nothing.

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[Awakening.]

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Yin and Yan expected a reunion. They did not know that Te had been observing them for over two years and was yet to consider them any more pressing an engagement than the other characters the island had to offer. They looked up in anticipation of Te climbing down from the tree and offering an apple. Te, however, was looking the other way at an animal dropping from the sky and swooping up from the sea with carrion; sadly their chance had been blown. Te had attempted to interact some time ago now and since the strange reception he now only saw his parents as a curiosity, as much a part of the land as him, but as distant as the sky.

Yin spent hours gazing into the tree tops. She did not want to interfere with Te but expected at some time that he would come down, at least out of curiosity. Without warning Te swung to a near by tree, then another and down - but quickly out of view. With no better ideas Yin called Yan and asked him if he would join her in thought.

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Te’s life was so much more a part of nature than that of his parents. They seemed to live from the land and enjoy its many pleasures; they attempted to define ownership, and left a mark. Te was the land he interacted with it as one, he took and he gave, he was integral but would not be missed.

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‘Good morning baby’ called Yan, Yin broke her pose just enough to raise a wave and present a rich smile.

The conversation at breakfast that day was just a little different than normal as it veered to the past and the day with the lizard. Both had allowed their differences on that matter to pass over, it had not been mentioned.
‘Maybe that is natures way?’ said Yin
‘This was our way of finding out…’
‘It was Yan, but I feel like I have allowed my emotions to get in the way, we have now lost not only the answers, but our Te’ Yin looked intensely sad.
Yan reached out to Yin and as he did he saw something in the corner of his eye. He made sure what he was seeing was what he thought it was then he gently pushed Yin’s head to the direction he was looking. Both could feel flushes of joy in their system.

In the tree tops a figure, much more man like than they remembered, was looking down at them. A familiar pose, he was holding an apple. Te had been using the treetops to watch over his parents for most of the time they had not known his whereabouts. He had learnt much of the life they chose to live; it was a different as can be to his.

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Two years and some months later, Yan’s record of time was awry, he woke on what was now a more typical morning. He took a drink from the rain bucket and went down to the sea to swim. Yan spent many hours in the sea thinking about sea life and the cycles of energy within. He especially liked to swim at night, the stars, moon, phosphorescence and glowing coral fascinated him and while he did try to just observe and be part of it all he couldn’t remove science from his thoughts.

Later as Yan walked back up the beach he was met with a familiar view, the beach was as nice as can be, the shelter, table and garden he had made blended with nature perfectly and Yin was in a yoga pose looking out in the other direction towards the aqua marine and her beloved. Yin had second thoughts on that night two years ago, she never did find Te and they had seen him few times since.

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[Time passed, or awareness of memories constructed the appearance of a past.]

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Yet this was Yan dreaming the words of his Te and not Te’s own words and as Yan was tentatively close to consciousness he soon lost track of the dream altogether and awoke to the bare fact of reality. ‘Where the hell is Yin? She must be meditating somewhere close, maybe harvesting for breakfast? But then Te had no need for his food parcels now and we are enjoying a rich summer produce… so no real... Hmmm…’ He attempted to tell himself that Yin would not do anything silly. ‘She is perhaps even scared to approach Te alone, she must be close by. Don’t panic’ he attempted to reassure himself, but he had never seen Yin like this.

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As Yan slept he slipped into a lucid state and was aware of a fantastic alternative to the current pain in his reality. His best wishes guided him on a dream set not too far in the future where he imagined Te as a great leader to the world of science. In the dream Te was in front of a captivated audience of the greatest minds known to science and of the Religious world’s greatest thinkers and leaders. He was dictating a picture of the universe, space and time as we perceive it, but with an incredible sideways look from him. Western and Eastern minds were in rapture to the ever innovative and thought provoking lecture. Scientists seemed desperate to run out of the room to test any theories they could, all of which seemed so amazingly astute, yet remained, gripped. Note pads were overflowing, Dictaphones running out of tape.

‘The visible galaxy…’ he said ‘...is a fraction of ‘The One’ we find in the mind of Religion, yet for a perceiver contained two opposing forces in a basic sense, the initial division perceivable and unperceivable. Therefore matter and doesn’t matter. The sub forces which manifest as matter are vastly more comprehensible than the One, especially the minority apparent to our senses. These help us see change and from this the illusion of polarity; being or non being, instead of just now; life and death, instead of part of the ongoing flow- with no start stop mechanism!; good and bad or right and wrong instead of appropriate, and so on. In fact any situation where you visualise an extreme instead of a relative natural position in flux somewhere between these conceptual poles. Or you follow an ideal not set by you but defined by an elaborate set of other peoples’ principals.
But that is actually everything you know, think or say! Because nothing you have is uniquely yours, so be mindful of your every act. Why do you sit like that? What opinion can you have over any situation if either first hand or from memory, let alone from another’s and conveyed with the restriction of words and comprehension? You could certainly not describe a painting over the telephone and expect a perfect copy. You could certainly not describe your emotion exactly; even the process of doing would quickly send you through several variations in emotion. So why take someone’s view on anything? Or even respect your own opinion you formed on a different day, in a different mood? Is it convenience or lack or awareness? How with this inaccuracy in communication, even in our own heads, do we explain science, space, conciseness and being? We invent a language of exactness! And this to explain the most infinitely dynamic of all things!’

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Yan spent the rest of the day fearing Te would return before he had time to convince Yin not to get involved. He had hours of work to do to prove to Yin that this was to be expected and they could not interfere. Yin took a lot of convincing.
‘He is a savage’ Yin sobbed.
‘It was protection instinct.’
This was to be a long argument. Neither wanted to loose, both knew Yin was right. Yan’s main ideal that he was standing up for was that ‘…this was the whole idea, to see how Te’s life panned out… it couldn’t all be rosy.’

That night Yin slipped away.

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For some time Te lead and his amazed parents followed, he took them to watering holes, ripe fruit trees and showed them how he cracked coconuts. All of this they had seen before, but only from hiding places. They were curious how such skills develop, but that had to wait. Until now neither had seen him interact with a human, and this was the point of today. Te seemed uncontrollably happy at the interaction.

Te was in the moment, he was becoming more daring, and he pulled at Yan's hand then pushed against Yin’s leg as he began to run around more. He disturbed a large lizard who peered over the rock he had chosen to sun bathe on and - Te lashed out. He hurled a stone towards the lizard, which moved quickly but lost his tail to the accuracy of the shot. Horrified, Yin started to run to restrain Te and Yan was forced to grab her and pull her back. Te seemed to be conscious of his mother’s reaction and his laugh subsided. Soon he was running about again making noise. Yan took control and guided Yin back towards their camp. Te’s energy burst began to subside and he vanished into a near by crop of bushes.

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Now aged 7 Te was showing a great desire to explore and his parents’ thoughts had been dedicated to how they would get him to communicate his pure thinking to them. ‘What can we learn from him, anything?’ They were startled that morning, just before sunrise, when Te stumbled across their camp.
‘Nughn na! Nugna vaaaaa…’ Te poked at Yan then, giggling, he hid in the shadows. Realising in a second who had disturbed them, Yan held back his initial urge to protect and turned instead to check Yin’s was awake for the show. As the pair looked to where Te had run to Yan pointed towards the silhouette of a fruit being plucked from a tree.

A little unsure of how Te would react to them they held each other and held his gaze. Inside both were excited and fascinated by every move he made. Te approached holding the fruit, taking a bite he then held it as an offering to the anxious couple.
‘Nyyyg’ said Te, gesturing with the fruit towards Yin. He paused to rub his belly.
‘Is it good? Is that nice apple for me?’ said Yin.
Confused Te dropped the fruit near Yin and went back a few steps. Yin smiled and took the fruit, ‘thank you’ she said and gestured as to whether she was welcome to take a bite. Te looked on. Yin rubbed the sand from the apple and took a bite, she beamed towards her child and said ‘thank you… Te’. Again Te giggled and this time ran in circles a couple of times. He pointed to the tree where he had found the apple and signalled for them to follow his lead.

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[The earth completed relative laps of the sun a few times. And certainly some mad paths relative to other objects in space too.]

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