Very Few Venture Far Enough Into the Forest of Bliss

Our universal lack of Self-understanding is why there are so many problems in the world! If everyone searched more deeply and sincerely for unbiased spiritual truth, we would not be in the mess we are in! No one can possibly find wholeness in 2 minutes, eleven seconds which is the average time spent at my site! Wholeness is far too vast a subject! It seems everyone would rather suffer the consequences of not knowing how valuable this information really is than dive deep with sincere longing and lifetime dedication into the forest of truth.

A woodsman was sent by his guru into the forest to find firewood. None could be found at first until he walked a few miles deeper into the forest. When he brought back the wood to his master, the master said, “Did you not also find the copper mine?” “No, I never found such a thing.” Disappointed, the master replied, “You did not go far enough! There is a great copper mine out there worth thousands of rupees. If you go even further beyond the copper mine, there is also a silver mine and then beyond that, a gold mine! This mine is filled with thousands of gold nuggets! I don’t need any myself, but would be interested to see how many you can bring back.”

Curious, the next day the woodsman set out into the forest much earlier than usual and did in fact manage to venture deeper into the woods than ever before and eventually came across the copper mine, then a silver mine and then a gold mine as indicated. He came back with much gold! However the master was again very disappointed, because the woodsman did not realize the fact that if he simply went even further and deeper, even more wealth would be found: a diamond mine!

The next day, and with even greater determination than ever before to please his master, he started out toward the wilderness long before the birds awakened, and after walking for miles and miles most of the day, he finally came across this amazing diamond mine! With great joy and excitement, he started on his long trek back home to his master with all the diamonds he could pack into his bags and could carry! However, not only were they heavy and difficult to bring back such a long distance, some thieves managed to steal most of them away from him, and when he finally reached his master’s abode, his guru was angrier than ever! “You are still completely fooled by the value of something outside your Self! These diamonds are only as valuable as you make them out to be! Don’t you realize my dear woodsman, if you simply went a little further beyond the diamond mine you would have found something far, far more vital, valuable and significant?”

Now really curious and really determined to find out what in the world could possibly exist beyond this diamond mine that could be so intriguing and even more valuable than diamonds, he again set out extremely early in the morning directly toward the diamond mine to search beyond it. Eventually he discovered an amazing garden filled with herbs such as ashwaganda, rhodiola rosa, epimedium, maca, eleuthero, licorice root, St. John’s wort, avena sativa, graviola, bacopa, ginkgo, saw palmetto, pygeum, nettle, and sarsaparilla; fruit trees producing acai, goji berries, blueberries, etc. Birds of all kinds and colors sang blissfully from the treetops.