Real? lesson I

One boy scales the side of a mountain, one step at a time. His pants were torn and wethered. He came to a gate, the cold wind on his bare chest. He read the insctription over the gate. "If it wills, you will enter it, If you will, it will enter you." He walked through the gate, and up to a hut at the top of the mountain. He came into the hut, and he saw an old man sitting on a pillar in the center of the room. On either side of him was a candle one with a green flame, one with a blue flame

"Are you Him?" The boy asked. "Yes, I am He." The old man answered. "I have come to ask you a question." The boy said. "And your question will be answered." The old man said. The boy sat cross legged like the old man. He entered a meditative state. A spectre of the boy and the old man appeared. "What is real?" The boy asked. "What do you mean?" The old man asked."What is freedom?" The boy asked. "Freedom is real." The old man said.

"You say freedom is real?" The boy asked. "Yes." The old man answered. "So who is real?" The boy asked. "No one." the old man said. "Why?" The boy asked. "Because we are not free." The old man said. "How are we not free?" The boy asked. "If we were truly free, you would not be here." the old man said."Where is here?" The boy asked. "Here is here you want it to be." The old man answered. "Will you train me in your ways?" The boy asked. "Before I train you, you must forget what the world has taught you." The old man answered.

The boy nodded, and stood up. "Thank you Master." He bowed to the old man. As the day went on the boy meditated out in the cold. "Are you ready for the first lesson?" The old man asked. "Yes Master." The boy answered. "Then come with me." The old man brought him to a cave filled with water, and in the middle of the cave was a bucket on a rock. "Meditate here until you can fill the bucket with water without getting wet." The old man said. "Yes Master." The boy meditated as he was told.

The old man came back later that night and the boy was still there. "Have you done it?" The old man asked. "No Master." The boy said. "Do not try and fill the bucket with water. You must see that guilt blocks your energy. You must let go of your guilt. This is the first step in disconnecting from this world." The boy understood, and let go of his guilt, it was not easy, but it had to be done. As he let go of his first connection to this world, he used the energy in everything to stop the world. The water lifted up off the cave floor, and into the bucket.

"Good now you must, learn the second lesson." The old man said.