Sunday 2:10 p.m.
I had to explain to someone on Friday night that I was a Christian as well as a Buddhist, and of course I am. For the last couple of years I've adopted the head on the Turin Shroud as the iconic image of altruism and compassion for the Amazing Bloggie Church of the BadBoyBlissheid, of which I am the sole member and single representative.
Of course, you can count yourself a Christian and not believe in the creator god, or that he was the son of God.
We embrace our ignorance.
We don't believe in any things,
Especially thoughts.
It's time to reclaim Jesus Christ from the flatheids!
I'm not really interested anymore in labels like Christian or Muslim. I don't care what you call yourself. What I want to know is whether you're a blissheid or a flatheid. You could refine that a little bit. On the one hand, you have the Forever Flatheids.
The Forever Flatheids don't meditate, will never in a month of Sundays get ra bliss, will always go around with their heads jammed up their bums, and will talk nothing but complete crap about anything you care to mention. Apart from doing all the work, they are completely useless.
The only folk I won't make disparaging remarks about who don't meditate are the ones who go schizophrenic when the see someone else smoking cannabis.
On the other hand, we have the Budding Blissheids. The Budding Blissheids all meditate, but some of them do not as yet get ra bliss. This is probably because they haven't been meditating for long enough or do it often enough. If you only meditate for twenty minutes a day, you probably won't get ra bliss, but what do I know? Maybe I had to meditate a lot more than most because I am so bad. If you meditate like moi, you will get ra bliss if you do it three times a day for half an hour a go. I regard myself as the average joe on this one.
People who want to kill other people because they believe something other than the crap they believe in, of course, are flatheids of the worst order. I assume all sensible people subscribe to Christian ethics (which are the same as Buddhist ethics, etc., etc.) since this seems to be the best way to get about this world.
I meditated straight through from eleven till two today. Superbo!!
7:50 p.m.
I did my longer run today as it was beginning to get darker, around 3:30 p.m. Most reaffirming! Felt fit and loved doing it. I thought it might be six miles, but it can't be that long. Was running for about forty five minutes. Blissed out then dozed off in the bath. The meditations just finished have been exceptional, but I haven't done any work on the kidbook since Thursday. Well, I did have my tooth extracted on Friday, went to Bellshill, then had to go out in the evening for emergency missionary work. On Saturday I had a most enjoyable visit with out friend with the MS at Liberton Hospital and the Dom Bliss and I had an evening last night watching the telly. Everything is looking up!!
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I'm not Christian, never really have been. As a kid my mom dragged me to church, but I could see it was all just pretend. The adults weren't walking their talk. So I never bought into it. I've been Pagan since I was old enough to make a rational choice. So now I'm a Buddhist/Pagan.
The thing I could never get about so called 'organized' religion is the whole "We believe in the same god but my way is the only right way, so I have to kill you".
It says pretty clearly "Do NOT kill" But people have been murdered for centuries for going to the 'wrong' church. Even as a kid I thought that was dumb.
I like to hope that the flatheids will eventually wake up and pay attention to what the word is about rather than the trappings they give it.
I'm glad you had good blissing time. I spent the weekend herding cats. But in a few days I can give that up and go back to quiet.
Marie Rex: I think most Christians have been giving Jesus Christ a bad name for almost as long as he's been dead! The hindus reabsorbed buddhism largely, and I thought if a new religion, which is supposed to be about compassion and altruism, comes to these shores, it should absorb the prevailing images in this regard. I blogged about this stuff a long time ago now. Jesus Christ was buddhist. I don't have any problems with that. Also, the only glimpse of what might be going on with the crucifixion came to me from hinduism. Hotboy p.s. I was brought up a catholic.pps what is a pagan?
Pagan is mostly a label that is easiest for people to deal with me.
I had a native American teacher for a while. Much of it is based there.
In a nutshell being Pagan for me means I believe in the spirits of the earth and sky. In my responsibility to all the things in and on the earth.
My faith is about service. Taking care of what needs doing. My 'job' is to continue to do service where service is needed. But it is to be done quietly without need or want of return. My gods accept only thanks and do not take requests or excuses.
I expect no one else to follow my path.
The most important thing is 'Do no harm'. But I know that to support my life harm happens. I accept that because it is part of an endless circle of life.
I am interconnected to everything on the earth. When I eat cows, I also enjoy the sunshine, rain, grass and grain that the cow had. Its body sustains mine and when I die my body will provided the blocks to grow more grass to sustain other things.
I celebrate the change in seasons. Love unconditionally.
As I said this is my path. I would never encourage someone else to follow my way. We all find our own ways and they all lead to the same place on the wheel of life.
Marie Rex: A the end of the book "Little Big Man" (Dustin Hoffman was in the movie) the indian chief, before he dies, thanks god for making him a "human being", meaning for him an indian. For me it had wider relevance. But the explanation for being pagan was dead interesting. "Do no harm" is tricky since it seems unavoidable that we all kill something. Great set of motivations though. Hotboy
Like most people I am not perfect in my faith. But I expect that is a big reason I am condemned to physical life.
Once I learn enough I will be freed of it. But sometimes that learning curve is steep.
I say! Sorry you're having to put in so much work on this bliss thing. It's fortunate I am to be one of those Budding Blissheids who doesn't have to meditate very much. It really helps if you're already a perfect balance of Celt and Kraut, worker and intelligentsia, Glasgow and Edinburgh. North and South hemispheres. Left and Right brain. Tough yet in touch with one's feminine. Healthy yet half-deid. Oh yes, it's all balancing up nicely!
I say! Re the Indian who thanks god for making him a human being, in The Magic Flute, there's the line:
Wen solche Lehren nicht erfreun,
Verdienet nicht ein Mensch zu sein.
which is about earning the right to be a human being. Those Bavarians knew what they were talking about, before it all went wrong.
Albert? Doing ra bliss is not work. Did Mozart being so good stop you practising your ukelele? Hotboy p.s. Sorry, but you're definitely a flatheid!
Indeed it did. Why play yourself when you can watch someone else doing it? And doing it better.
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