jb/disasters, karma, and THAT

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"jb" wrote:

> On 1/30/01 at 12:00 AM Michael Read wrote:

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> ºDear sweet impersonal THAT,

> º

> ºSometimes your lila really sucks!

> º

> ºThank you,

> º

> ºMichael

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> What comes to the mind, reading the above rant that could be

continued for several pages more?

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> Jan

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Thanks for your wise words, dear Jan. What you have said is true. We

do have the power to make this a much better world. It is possible.

 

What I said does have a somewhat subtle measure. There are situations

and circumstances over which the 'individual' has no control. Natural

disasters of course rank right up at the top. True, better building

practices would/may have averted most if not all of the death and

destruction in India. Short sightedness and greed were the other

mitigating circumstance that we who witness also have no control over.

 

Is there blame to be laid on karma accrued in past lives by those who

died? What a crock of shit! Karma is immediate. If not directly so,

then over a span of time. IE, poor building practices today cause the

effect of structural failure tomorrow or in a few years.

 

Despite the short sightedness/greed/stupidity inherehent in the human

race, there is much beauty and grace manifested through the vehicle of

humanity.

 

Is the human race evolving and growing into a more grace filled

spiritually minded species? Perhaps. Still the question remains, where

does it all come from?! In advaita vendanta (and many other

'religions') the teaching is that it is all god's play, a grand

illusion. We are but puppets. What puppet has the temerity to question

its master?!

 

In this grand illusion from time to time a character may step out of

form and raise its fist to the heavens declaring, "God, you suck! you

are the ultimate bastard! If you are a god of love, it is a sick and

sadistic kind of perverted love. Fuck you!"

 

All of the religious systems don't amount to a hill of beans. Look out

across the vastness of space. Will it go away if the planet earth is

destroyed? Don't bet on it! Other stars will continue to shine. Other

planets will bring forth life and sentient beings.

 

Does anything count in this madcap, mixedup, motherfucker of a

universe? Only the beauty of this moment as it unfolds into the next

moment. It is the neverending story.

 

Mayhaps humanity will learn to play well and wisely. Then again we may

not. God can play rough. Damn rough. This illusory existance has no

inherent meaning. It only is. We can rant and rave against the

seeming injustice all we want. We can roll over and refuse to play. We

can stress out and succumb to visions. We can search frantically for

some great meaning that will justify our existance. And none of it

will matter one iota. Things are as they are.

 

Life is best lived with gusto!

 

 

HAHAHAH and HOHOHO!

 

Peace - and why not? - Michael