From 60248e292f3e4bbdf0d921bdd5af126f32766c66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Peter Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:24:02 -0700 Subject: the state --- README.md | 5 +++-- the_state.pdc | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ the_state.pdf | Bin 0 -> 21365 bytes 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 the_state.pdc create mode 100644 the_state.pdf diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8616c95..ce13b02 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ -# short-stories -short stories +# Short Stories + +Some random short pieces I wrote. diff --git a/the_state.pdc b/the_state.pdc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9788a1f --- /dev/null +++ b/the_state.pdc @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +title: The State of Perfect Faith +author: Marius Peter +date: \today +fontfamily: fourier +--- + +The young boy was in a state of perfect faith. + +He couldn't readily explain how; there was no how, much less a why, he hadn't followed a path nor read any recipes, but he was in that state. +He didn't even know it (as It didn't depend on knowledge, or any conscious effort for that matter) so he couldn't speak about this particular state without compromising it. + +Grown men jeered at his forced attempts to explain his state, pointing out its uselessness; +they believed he was idle, contemplative, unproductive. +But the young boy didn't believe in anything, he had risen above, he was everything. + +The young boy had answered the most important questions. +Thus, he was blind to grown men's blindness; +they spent their lives torn between the guilt of a selfless action left unrealised, and the remorse of a realised selfish one. +The young boy struggled to see the difference between himself and what was not himself. +He saw only actions, lacking any particular instigator, but which could propagate good or evil. +Helping himself or helping others made no difference -- he would certainly die, insofar that he might've been born. + +And this may be the most remarkable aspect of his faith: +the young boy doubted his birth every day, seeking a broader basis to his faith than reasonings he could only hold during the short period spanning his physical birth to his spiritual death. +Yet he was never spiritually born, so his flesh could physically die. + +However, he was a reflection of grown men's liveliness, he created the illusion that he, too, has grown very much attached to his body. +But he wasn't his body, he was a character on a sheet of paper, a picture for the mind's eye conjured by magic words that speak to the Soul. +The young boy only existed if you believe he did, but remember, he himself never believed in anything, he had risen above, he was in everything and everyone. + +The young boy was in a state of perfect faith, and the grown man believed what he wanted to. +But the grown man had forgotten that He was never born, and only hubris could've tricked him into identifying with his body. +The young boy saw the world as it was, but not through his own eyes. The young boy was the world. + +Only grown men that had killed the young boy inside were unable to see him everywhere they wished. diff --git a/the_state.pdf b/the_state.pdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..838a087 Binary files /dev/null and b/the_state.pdf differ -- cgit v1.2.3