Lead a Horse to Water

Written By Mathew Naismith

We have a saying in the west, “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.”

What this means as the image above states,” You can lead a human to knowledge but you can't make him think.” This is in line with awareness, where, “ You can speak of awareness as much as you like, but it takes awareness to be able to comprehend awareness itself to accept this awareness as being of awareness in the first place.”

My wife and I are in awe, so many horses refuse to go to the water to begin with, and even if some make it to the water, be the water of knowledge or awareness, many still refuse to drink from this water.

So why the hesitancy to drink from this water?

How many religious people put religion and even their church before God? How many scientists put their careers and/or their employers profits before science? How many people put their own personal security before a nations security? How many people put political ideologies before all else, even family that can include a nation and even the human race as a whole?

At present, medical apartheid comes before other people's security and well being, even to the extent of outright abuse of the people on the receiving end of numerous kinds of embraced apartheid systems. So why the hesitancy to drink from this water? The answer is simple, security. An embraced apartheid system gives certain people a sense of security. What occurs when you try to take a security blanket away from an infant? Because knowledge and awareness have a direct relation to the truth, in a time when the truth is heavily censored, knowledge and awareness is seen as a threat to security, like taking a security blanket away from an infant. This is also at a time when so many people embraced a medical apartheid system, even to the point of outright abuse, as apartheid systems often lead to.

In spirituality today, how often is love put before awareness, when it is awareness that creates a true sense of love in spirituality? Try being of a true sense of love without first being in a state of awareness. So being aware of what for example? Putting God consciousness, be it that this God consciousness can be many things, even before a state of awareness. God consciousness to me relates to a conscious state of pure awareness and wisdom, be it that awareness in the absence of wisdom is not really a state of awareness therefore love.

Wisdom does not shun other forms of awareness, so to someone like me it is obvious who is of wisdom and who only speaks of awareness and love in the absence of wisdom. So many people censor what is not of their own awareness and love, a form of apartheid system put in motion!! In a real sense, people of wisdom are in the complete absence of the embarrassment of apartheid systems. Apartheid systems are not systems that are intentionally avoided, it is simply a state that cannot exist within a state of wisdom, I mean really.

So can you lead a horse to water, even to save it's life, a horse that has embraced some kind of apartheid system? Not when the horse sees the water as a threat to their apartheid system, a threat in taking away their security blanket.

So do you allow the horses to die of thirst, die due to the lack of knowledge and awareness, truth?

All I am going to say is that a certain number of horses can be saved, and if you wish to try to save these horses, so it must be. The water must be presented in a way so that the water does not seem like a threat to the horses security, knowing that each and every horse has it's own idea of what represents security and a threat to this security. What should come first, the good of the people of an apartheid system or the good of all of man kind, remembering many people have been coerced to think the embracement of an apartheid system is for the good of all, of course wisdom tells us something quite different?

Drinking from the Water

Written by Mathew Naismith

All we can do is try to lead a horse to water, we certainly shouldn't make it drink the water, even if we could.......Mathew G

Gosh, what is one to do? Be open, honest and truthful, especially to oneself but most of all, realise that only an ego in control judges in black and white, negative and positive, bad and good, wrong and right. Judging in this way isn't negative, bad or good, in the absence of a controlling egoistic consciousness, it is simply one of infinite ways to exist.

For people into the control, including trying to control the ego and how the mind thinks, you are going to suffer the most under the control that is presently being implemented. Yes, by all means ignore the negatives to stay positive and in control, but expect this control to be 100 times more in control of you in every sense from other people in the near future. When all this implementation and expressions of control comes to a head, people like me will simply go with the flow, as usual, for it is what the collective have created it to be.

As it is, yes, some horses will drink the water, but realise that not all the horses will drink from the water. You would think a thirsty horse would drink from the water!! Actually, a thirsty horse will always drink from the water, no matter how dirty (negative) or clean (positive) the water is, but an ego in control won't it would seem, they would rather die from thirst. How many proven ancient teachings teach us about the ego and its deceitful ways, especially of self-deception? Instead, ignore these proven teachings because they are negative!! 

I could quite happily sit within my own bliss within any environment, not just an environment that pleases or feeds the ego, and live my own life in bliss separate to the horses that desire not to drink from the water. But alas, my own ego has to at least try to lead some horses to water as we are all in this together.