be serious and then laugh

[Guest guest]

Whatever makes maya serious and important is karma. Karma, importance, is the joke that keeps maya entertaining.

I just read on the news: “Bush, Sharon Discuss Peace.” And then I had to laugh because life can only be the pure JOY of maya if I don’t take anything seriously. And so for this lack of seriousness, the news should have been : “ Bush and Sharon laugh about peace.”

And this utter indifference to anything that is serious is the joy and laughter that reminds me, yet again, that I am the untouchable Joy called Self – BUT ONLY IF I DON”T take anything seriously.

Maya cannot be understood unless we accept that the untouchable JOY called Self plays all the roles of everything and everybody. If this can be understood then anytime one of the Self’s imaginary characters, egos, takes anything seriously then this seriousness is the fuel called karma. Karma makes and keeps maya entertaining as the Self plays hide and seek with all its imaginary doers, called egos.

There is only one rule maya needs to be entertaining: on limitless levels and to fathomless depths nothing can ever appear to be what it is – be it gods, saints, perverts, popes, tyrants and heroes – NOTHING CAN EVER APPEAR FOR WHAT IT IS -- because it is all the SAME – the Self plays all the roles.

A story about the saints that egos must worship instead of gods.

After the early Christian church perfected the corruption and decadence it learned from the Greeks and then Romans it was able to use this perfection to overthrow the less corrupt and decadent Empire of Rome.

This perfection of corruption and decadence would get a new name that would separate it from the previous less decadent Rome. This new name would be “holy.” Another use of this “holy” puts it into some perspective: the Holy Inquisition. Another word that puts this word “holy” into even better perspective is “Dark Ages.”

And thus this perfection of decadence and corruption would no longer be the Empire of Rome but the Holy Roman Empire. And because of the only law maya needs to be entertaining: the holier Rome was on the surface the more corrupt and decadent it had to be behind this façade called holiness. It could not be otherwise because, be it holiness or decadence, the Self plays all the roles.

And the holier the early Christian church got the more righteously it could methodically exterminated all the early followers of Christ, the early Christians, and Gnostics, and heretics and barbarians, and also all the Christian Jews they could catch. This holiness was then perfected even better as the Holy Empire mixed all the cults and their holy-days together so that this holiness could be a monopoly of cults called the Holy Roman Empire.

The primary fuel for maya is the imaginary opposition between the worldly religions and their cults. If maya translates the word holy as “material” then the word cult means “spiritual.”

Since the dawn of history, organized religions are the survivors of cults. And to survive, religions, by definition, have to oppose anything “spiritual” that would rob religions of the all the egos they need to build and pay for their churches, cathedrals, basilicas …. empires.

MOST FUNDAMENTALLY: No religion can survive let alone thrive if its members or egos are allowed to tune into the spirit, the Self, the unfathomable LOVE that that kills egos to make the material world and its religions mundane, if not a joke.

Why do religious people pray to saints and not gods?

This monopoly of cults, the Holy Rome or papacy, quickly learned that anyone who had direct visions of gods bypassed the pope.

So the papacy invented its saints to mediate all the visions the church needed for its faithful to have. After these saints were invented any faithful that had visions directly from god, and not these patron saints, were forthwith possessed by the devil. Thus the especially “holy inquisition” and its Dark Ages.

Once the papacy organized its saints then anyone who had a direct vision of Jesus or god was obviously possessed by the devil because the pope’s god specifically told the pope that it would only appear to the pope while the pope’s saints would appear to all non-popes. Why not?

There are no limits to the way karma makes and keeps maya entertaining. And so we find that the papacy sometimes only promoted those egos to sainthood that were bogus, like perverts and pimps. If its faithful thus had visions of these bogus saints then the pope had proof that these visionaries were frauds. This monopoly of cults thus had all its bases loaded so well that – spirituality be damned -- it had to rule maya, the material world.

Is it a coincidence that after Reformation all the new religions of Christianity discarded the Vatican’s saints, be they bogus or real?

Is it a coincidence that the Vatican recently declared some of its most cherished saints to be bogus? Like St Christopher.

There are no limits to the methods religions use to make sure that their saints and perverts and child molesters are the spokesmen for their gods. The more bogus these saints the more it can fuel the karma that maya needs to be entertaining – BUT ONLY IF WE TAKE THINGS SERIOUSLY. When we take anything in maya seriously it fuels all the misery and pain, the karma, saints need to be bogus or anything else that has to be serious and thus important.

Take anything seriously in maya – be it family, friends, politics, wealth, fame, wisdom and success; ANYTHING, even chastity and virginity and homosexuality, drugs and abortion and wars and diseases, even gods and their saints, ANYTHING -- and this seriousness will be the blindfold and earplugs egos need to be blind and deaf to what they are: the unfathomable JOY of dreamless-sleep called SELF.

And if all the above is utter garbage then what about maya’s “Nothing has even happened.”

If “Nothing has ever happened” then why take ANYTHING that hasn’t happened seriously?

for the untouchable JOY that ALL IS

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