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By Steve Beckow, October 20, 2025
Is there anyone who, in their most private, secret moments, hasn’t hungered to be “the One”?
The One who saves the planet. The One who makes a vast difference. Etc., etc.
I just had that thought arise. Where it came from, who knows? And for a moment it thrilled me.
And then you know what my next thought was?
Man, are you totally crazy? Do you know how busy “the One” is? Busier than Donald Trump, clones included. What are you doing messing with that? Get back here. Sit down.
I’m a writer. I need solitude, to write. The last thing in the world I want, as long as I pursue writing, and I know it may shrink when I’m a CEO (drat!), is to be “anyone’s One”?
Who wants to be “the One?”
You in the back row. Yes, you. Come on, down! …
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I resonate with what Ajahn Sumedo said about international Buddhist congresses. There is nothing more boring. Aspire not to be an attendee. Aspire to be an earthworm instead and just let go, let go, let go. (1)
I hear that. Nobody going nowhere. I can get that!
But then folks’ll try to make that nobody a somebody.
No, thanks. I choose to write.
Because when I write, I offer the Mother a channel to promote love in the world. Of course love needs no promotion once you’ve felt it.
And why promotion? Because the purpose of life is for God to meet God in a moment of our enlightenment.
Think that over. Reason it out. God is everything. How does everything know itself? To meet a fully-conscious fragment of itself in a moment of union.
That’s the task given to every One of us, without exception. And we’re given all time to do it in.
So, no, not “the One” for me. Another lifetime maybe? For this lifetime, No One Going Nowhere – on the sign above the door? – suits me just fine.
Footnotes
(1) “So I’m making it very simple for you, to save you from getting c****t in incredible amounts of suffering. There’s nothing more sorrowful than having to attend International Buddhist Conferences! Some of you might have the desire to become the Buddha of the age, Maitreya, radiating love throughout the world – but, instead, I suggest just being an earthworm, letting go of the desire to radiate love throughout the world. Just be an earthworm who knows only two words – ‘let go, let go, let go’.” (Ajahn Sumedo, Teachings from the Silent Mind. Great Gaddesden: Amaravati Publications, c1984; 1992. , 43-4.)
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