Salvadore Poe

United States

A journey

Once upon a time I went on a long, exciting journey.

I was feeling that ordinary life was mundane and boring so I
craved and sought the extra-ordinary through any experience I
could think of. First I sought out worldly experiences; success,
money, relationship, sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. There is nothing
wrong in worldly experience. It is the craving for transcendence,
for a heightened experience of living, for something more than what
is, through these experiences, that causes suffering and bondage.

I went to the extreme in all of these experiences finally recognizing,
painfully, that there was no ultimate fulfillment in any of it.
All happiness derived from this was fleeting. I fell back again and
again to what I perceived as this boring life.

After one particularly intense experience of suffering I fell to my
knees to pray for help. Not knowing to whom or what I cried for help.
At that point I fell asleep, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, and I
awakened to a new world. A world of full color and hope. I began to
consciously seek for something I had heard about. It is called
enlightenment. I meditated, travelled, philosophized, met and lived
with gurus, sages, masters, teachers, had undreamed of psycho-spiritual
experiences and wound up living in India. But, just as with my
unconscious, worldly seeking, I eventually came to recognize that
all of these so called 'spiritual' experiences, although amazing,
beautiful, mind opening, consciousness shattering and ecstatic were
equally fleeting - appearing and then inevitably fading away. They
left me, once again, disappointed and disillusioned. I had come to the
end of all of my seeking and was left naked, hopeless and not knowing
what to do next. I thought maybe I would just meditate in a cave
somewhere until this body dropped.

But this is the point at which one can finally, once and for all,
come to know what is true, to recognize one's true nature and come
home finally and forever. And this is exactly what happened. After
a long journey, from everything mundane through everything transcendent,
I simply took one simple step, one small leap, and I came home, to a
home which I had never left but had simply never recognized as the one
and only true heaven that it is. I came to know that there is no god
separate from me, no heaven separate from here and no enlightenment
separate from NOW. Who I am is here, now...source itself. With enormous
relief and eternal gratitude I had come full circle. I came to know the
peace and bliss that has nothing to do with experience or understanding
but is in fact my very nature.

This is what the song Weightless, and all of the songs I write are about.
The journey home. The journey that we are all on, consciously or
unconsciously. I sing about the home that is everyone's birthright because
it is their very nature. It is not only for Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed,
Ramana Maharshi or any other saint or sage. It is for YOU.

Welcome home!




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