One Solution

Consider a solution that is the solution to every problem. What is it? Is it religion? Is it more money, more friends, more influence, more time? I assure you, it is much more intimate, much more radical. It is what the mystics have been saying for ages, but they are neither heard nor understood. This ignorance extends even to the authorities themselves. 

Whatever the problem, there is just one solution, not one solution for one problem and one solution for another but one solution for every problem. As my good friend Richard Miller beautifully put it, "the solution is dissolution."       

The seekers question that inevitably follows is how to effect or allow this dissolution? In my own experience, disillusionment is a good place to begin. To not be so quick to accept other's solutions which have proved dissatisfactory is the mark of wisdom. Not being satisfied with half measures, you are on the way to a true solution that doesn't involve better coping skills, more knowledge or more ways of how to best manage this moment. 

Even how to best let go of control is just another half-measure. It is just another coping skill, a way for the ego to adjust. When this is seen, when  there is a deep recognition that pseudo solutions are not enough, there is the possibility of a more radical solution.

Prakash