Easter Holiday

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Dear Lists,

 

Why do we compartmentalize our holidays? Why do we, as humans, have the

need for a "special day" once a year to celebrate this or that? Why can't

whatever is special on that day (if it's truly special) continue every

minute of every day of the year?

 

For example, I refer to Christmas. Why not sing Christmas hymns every day?

July 4th, "independence day." Does independence count more on this day

than it does on others? Birthdays... why not celebrate coming into the

world EVERY day?

 

This compartmentalization seems to me silly, and so I ignore most holidays

as much as possible. If what is done on a particular holiday does not

exist in the heart ALL THE TIME, always, every day, every minute, then it

is simply ritual, no different than worshipping a statue.

 

Enjoy or Discard, but offered with Love,

 

Tim

 

 

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> Tim Gerchmez <fewtch

>

> Dear Lists,

>

> Why do we compartmentalize our holidays? Why do we, as humans, have the

> need for a "special day" once a year to celebrate this or that? Why can't

> whatever is special on that day (if it's truly special) continue every

> minute of every day of the year?

 

All celebration comes to a natural end when one is swimming in boundless

sahaja-ananda.

>

> For example, I refer to Christmas. Why not sing Christmas hymns

> every day?

 

Mind becomes bored rather easily. Mind likes change. Every like can be

turned into dislike by "overdose", which can be easily verified.

> July 4th, "independence day." Does independence count more on this day

> than it does on others? Birthdays... why not celebrate coming into the

> world EVERY day?

 

Self is absolute independence and knows neither birth nor death. How silly

to celebrate a mortal frame, that "at best" is a vessel to cross the ocean

of samsara..

> This compartmentalization seems to me silly, and so I ignore most holidays

> as much as possible. If what is done on a particular holiday does not

> exist in the heart ALL THE TIME, always, every day, every minute, then it

> is simply ritual, no different than worshipping a statue.

 

Why ignore? No holidays, no mourning days, no celebrations, just Be...

>

> Enjoy or Discard, but offered with Love,

>

> Tim

 

Do you have a choice to offer with something else ?

 

Jan

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At 11:42 AM 4/5/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Why is it different than compartmentalizing days?

>I only see in it a

>difference of degree like pain is to ego, etc...

 

I (mostly) agree. Days have been compartmentalized since the "beginning of

time," because of the rotation of the Earth, and the subsequent separation

of day and night. This seems to me a natural tendency. Compartmentalizing

holidays is based on that compartmentalization of days, so I guess there's

a certain degree of logic to it. But why not a season-long holiday? :-)

 

If you look at clock-time divisions, these seem to me COMPLETELY arbitrary

and based solely on historical accident. Why 60 seconds in a minute, why

60 minutes in an hour, why 24 hours in a day, why 31 days in a month, why

12 months in a year?

 

I guess it comes down to what is "natural" and what is "arbitrary" (12

months in a year is arbitrary, but a year itself is natural, because it

denotes the "wobble" of the Earth / the four seasons).

 

Holidays themselves are arbitrary, if you get right down to it. Why have

them at all? :-) What's there to celebrate, for example, about being born?

Is it not a natural occurrence that happens to everyone?

 

Tim

 

 

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