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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 5:30 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan's
money
> > ----Duh. I'm so stupid. Why didn't I think of that?
>
> Probably because you realized that "stick with one
> ride until
the end" was part of a dogma that was
> carefully *taught* to you, and
you rejected dogma,
> not the ride. As a result, you're still on
the
> ride (although a different ride), while others are
> merely
out walking the dogma, in circles. :-)
>
> ----Nah, I
probably didn't think of it because:
> (a) I don't go to Disneyland to
get enlightened,
You may have missed out. I worked with a
spiritual
teacher who took his students to Disneyland often.
http://ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm13.html
-------There's perhaps better
ways to meet the bardo visions. Like spending time serving in poor areas,
amongst the sick at the hospice, or going to Indian ceremonies where people
wear ugly masks and screetch and pound things. Or simply by going to a
protector ritual and feeling ones own fear due to attachment and aversion
reflected back into ones own mind stream 100%. Disneyland? Nah. For
people who expect a Disney Bardo. But I get the idea.
> (b) There's too many spies at Disneyland to be able to do
> anything truely fun,
IMO, there is never too much anything
anywhere to
prohibit having fun. :-)
------Well, I guess I later contradicted
this when I spoke about a couple isolated experiences. Oh yeah, I once went to
Disneyland with two Sidhas. While there we decided to do program. Ever done
program at Disneyland? Where did you sit?
> (g) Enlightenment is not a ride that you can get on and off
of,
True in the sense that it is always already present.
---Also true in the sense
that once you set foot on the path it becomes like poison melting your
obscurations away, and you can never find anything to replace them back
with again.
> (h) Enlightenment is for those who have left childish toys
behind,
Can't buy this one. Enlightenment is for everyone,
and
many people rather enjoy not having lost in adulthood
the ability to
have fun that they had as children.
-----Adult have fun too, even
better fun than kids. The idea that only kids have fun is dull.
> (j) Disneyland specifically is for children,
Only
because too many adults are too busy being adults
to remember how to have
fun. Kids drag their parents
to Disneyland because they pity
them.
------Well, that is sad. I never
had that thought for a second. But my Dad knew how to have fun, which is why
he was a puppet maker, chef, architect, football player, musician, and soo on.
My family are all craftspeople who included my Mom who designed clothes and
Rose Bowl Parade floats, and so on. That creativity is fun in the original
sense. Brag brag brag, yada yada yada.
On another note, my favorite thing that I
ever remember as a kid is when my dads T-shirts got old and full of holes and
he would let all us kids climb all over him and rip the T-shirts to shreds.
That was fun.
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