--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Turq, > > Very enjoyable read. I was walking next to you, bub. Glad you "came > back" after you hinted about leaving here.
For a long time there was really nothing I felt like replying to or contributing, that's all. Besides, I wanted Swami J to panic for a while and focus on some new victim, which she did -- Peter. :-) > No matter how right or > wrong you are judged to be on so many matters by so many here, the > piece below sets you above most here in that you contribute of > yourself these "takes on life" with quality writing, and . . . > quality heart. > > I envy your setting. It's a neat place. > You're doing something very good for yourself it > seems. Don't know if you follow the "movement rules" about having > religious statues -- seems unlikely -- but I still try to honor > any religious symbol by at least mood making a bit and trying to > be "my nice parts" when I'm around them. I don't bow and pray to > them, but I try not to -- psychically speaking -- purposefully > turn my back on them. I respect them for the power they have to > trigger my mind into wandering the "purity aisles" of my inner > supermarket. While I respect the inspirational purposes of such images, I *definitely* don't respect any "rules" about them. The new stone Buddha I bought last night is currently wearing a pair of my nose glasses, and looks to me as if he's really enjoying them. This is not sacrilege. On the contrary, it is my way of respecting what I think Buddha was all about. I suspect he laughed a lot and had FUN with life, and I'm not ever going to get down with any tradition or teacher who tells me to get all *serious* about a dude who probably had passed "serious" by long before they started making statues of him. So some days I might fill his lap with flowers, and the next, Tootsie Rolls, or like today, let him wear my nose glasses, or maybe a funny hat. I think enough of the historical Buddha to believe that whatever makes me smile would make him smile.
