Each time I enter the semi circle that is gathered around the fire at the Benwiskin Centre I tell a story. More often than not this is a new story that has come from a line of a poem that has or is presently inspiring me.
Included in these stories there is sometimes a riddle. I am a riddle maker. Children and adults love riddles but these riddles are not simply entertainment. They are written to invite the listener into the direct experience of the greatest riddle of all - that although you feel separate from most everything that in truth you are forever One.
This is why the master storyteller Jesus Christ used parables. They have to go beyond the rational mind which barrs entry to the experience of non-duality - that which is not either/or but both this and that at the same time.
Riddles and parables have been important divices throughout the journey of the spirti. The greatest riddles are those of the Zen koan such as "What is the sound of one hand clapping. This riddle, however, isn't much fun for children and would in all likelihood send participants of a drumming workshop to have an early night.
So the riddle I am working with goes something like this.
"Go to the placeless place and follow the forgotten path to the door of twixt and in between. There enter the circle of gold and make the two one. Do all of this without doing all of this and the light will return."
Answers can be sumitted via the comments on this page.
Shed the cloak of time and distance and love will be revealed but shed the skin of form and the light will totally embrace us and include us. However, we will not be able to return to our form again once we enter that state of no conditions.
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