All in a small boat together.
Satan, Gandhi, Stalin, Buddah, Diana, Hitler, Muhammed, Bush, Ivan, Jesus, Mao, You, Me.
We all have somthing in common.
What is it?
Whats another one?
How many hundreds more are there?
When you think about the best of everyone, does the worst matter?
What about when you think about the worst? does the best matter?
Matter is created and destroyed, creates and destroys.
If you could only put things together and take things apart, what could you do in this world?
Why ask hard questions when you can just feel good?
We all have somthing in common.
What is it?
Whats another one?
How many hundreds more are there?
When you think about the best of everyone, does the worst matter?
What about when you think about the worst? does the best matter?
Matter is created and destroyed, creates and destroys.
If you could only put things together and take things apart, what could you do in this world?
Why ask hard questions when you can just feel good?
posted by J at 1:33:00 PM
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"I am a sinner and you are a sinner, but someday the sinner will be Brahma again, will someday attain nirvana, will someday become a Buddha.
Now this 'someday' is illusion; it is only a comparison.
The potential Buddha already exists in the sinner; his future is already there.
The potential hidden Buddha must be recognized in him, in you, in everybody.
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection.
No, it is prefect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people- eternal life.
It is not possible for one person to see how far another is on the way;
the Buddha exists in the robber and the dice player;
the robber exists in the Brahmin.
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time,
to see simultaneously the past, present and future,
and then everything is Brahman.
This stone is stone; it is also an animal, God and Buddha.
I do not love and respect it because it is one thing and will become something else,
but because it has already long been everything and is always everything." -from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
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