XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/1/2016 6:50 AM, Julian wrote:   
      
   > I've just had a flash back to Rowan and Martins Laugh In.   
   > Essential viewing for adolescent UK schoolboys back in the day.   
   > Goldie Hawn! Vely Intelesting!   
      
   I saw movies (pictures) of Goldie Hawn.   
   A totally blank, empty person, beautiful   
   manikin but there is no personality under   
   the lustrous skin (and big eyes). Vely   
   intelesting! In the US, the syndrome is   
   called "The lights are on but nobody is   
   home". A walking beaming vacancy.   
   Probably vivacious, with enough shine   
   to light up a big city, and bubbly, too,   
   therefore different from Marilyn Monroe,   
   the epitome of an Augustinian gnawing   
   unrelieved self-loathing, but with no   
   redeeming features apart from looks.   
   Perhaps representative of a certain   
   ethnic group, endowed with massive   
   privilege and genetic blessing, with   
   status to match, but banking on a total   
   absence of inner gravitas. Obvious   
   targets for very patient, compassionate   
   spiritual teachers who might lament   
   such discrepancy between comely   
   outside and (not evil, but) lack of   
   substance inside. One one hand, it   
   takes all kinds, on the other one   
   wonders how God loads up the dice   
   from a certain inscrutable angle (which   
   word rhymes with angel). Well, variety   
   is the spice of life, and some political   
   circles gloat diversity. God knows how   
   to entertain himself, sometimes at our   
   expense. We should not forget to give   
   him credit for humour and irony. Levity   
   can well be his play on us, his creatures.   
   He can well thereby intimate to us the   
   way back to him, namely humour and   
   irony, grounded on a serious dose of   
   levity. One can smell Buddhist   
   emptiness all over his design. Cynicism   
   aside, it might behoove us to assume   
   our part (moira), play right into his   
   hand and roll with his punches, namely   
   to limn ourselves and his creation in   
   general with exactly what he (allegedly)   
   dishes to us, namely levity, humour and   
   irony, all in double dose, to pay him   
   back in kind, which would be to "get"   
   his joke, whether "in" or not. It would   
   exactly amount to taking everything,   
   ourselves included, as clouds passing   
   in the sky and water sliding off a duck's   
   back, which would also double as the   
   best way to praise his creation, in the   
   most glorious manner possible   
   befitting him.   
      
   Let us make a joyful sound in his   
   direction! Praise be to fluff! He created   
   us and his whole creation in the best   
   way possible! All is well that ends well!   
      
   Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir!   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)