XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Ummmmmmm wrote:   
   > brian exhasperated:   
   >>   
   >>  I suppose I should turn in my Buddhist Badge; I can't see life   
   >> as either disease or disaster. Someone show me something better.   
   >>   
   >Something better might be - life as fun!   
      
   I'd thought that was brian's point. Neither disease nor disaster.   
   Not all desire is bad desire. Buddhism isn't bleak. In his view.   
      
   Hopefully he gets your point, and is now satisfied.   
   Assuming he read the words you wrote, for why ever you did.   
      
   >All of it - body and mind, feelings and intellect, desires and wisdom.   
   >We're all part of the Big Bang! It's still banging away. Exuberant   
   >energy expressing itself in every possible way.   
   >Does it seem to you that the Hubble telescope reveals that what we think   
   >of us the Universe most resembles a massive fireworks display?   
      
   I've heard Watts use that expression.   
      
   >If you feel enslaved or imprisoned, you'll shoot for "Liberation"   
   >If you feel confused or ignorant, you'll shoot for "Enlightenment"   
   >If you feel guilty or frightened, you'll shoot for "Salvation"   
   >If you feel bored you'll shoot for "Satori"   
   >   
   >These are all learned behaviours, mental aberrations, and all the cures   
   >are fake.   
      
   To say they are fake suggests a stance you take.   
   Sometimes one may learn how to get out of a trap.   
   Mental traps can be all too real at times within time.   
   Unlocking doors to cell blocks might require the key.   
      
   >Children don't do any of these things.   
      
   Being reborn as a child, or returning to being a newborn,   
   is mentioned on at least two bottles in the pharmacy.   
   Be one in the morning, every and each day.   
   Or at any time, as needed.   
      
   >Peel away the layers,   
      
   Sounds like a cure. A technique.   
      
   > and you will find, deep within yourself, the child   
   >you've always been. Always free, always wild, always looking for fun,   
   >joy, inner peace. Never settling for second-best.   
      
   If and when the cures do that, then they do that.   
   When one's child-likeness is remembered, restored and made whole,   
   when one has unlearned what was learned, one has arrived.   
      
   >That's a whole lot better, IMO, than hating the body, fighting desires,   
   >trying to appease an implacable, vindictive god, trying to locate the   
   >Tao in a maze of self-reflecting mirrors. These are grown-up games.   
   >Quite dull. At least, they seem so to me :-)   
      
   Children often play hide-and-seek.   
      
   Adults on spiritual quests might play lost-and-found.   
      
   When involved in a good game, one forgets it's a game.   
   That can be the beauty of the game, and why it's played.   
      
   Some people find sports, politics, cooking, dancing, singing   
   and life in general to be quite dull. Being has lost its wonder.   
      
   Lao Tzu may have been one of those, muddled, sorts.   
   Some say that's why he and Zz spoke of Nonbeing so often.   
      
   After he left his wisdom at the gate, he was free to go.   
   Kinda like when Kwai Chang grasped a pebble.   
   Except different.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)