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Peace out, Dan ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:43:13 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Smokey Bear Sutra > > > > > You forgot the tale of cosmic chicken steer and fish who created the > universe, came to earth > and were harvested like wheat for smug whites to eat in sandwich buns and > nuggets > in chicken fingers and beef strips and steaks so they could feel superior to > those > that hunted, they spoke of love for bear with steer and chicken and fish in > their bellies > reaped as grain, raised in pens for slaughter. No one sings for them. Whites > do not > see them as beings too. They pay other whites to kill them for them so that > they remain clean > and above reproach, they do not see the meat they eat as life too. > Cosmic chicken was slaughtered by a machine after a life in a cage and force > fed, hung > from her feet after her eggs were taken from her. > > Along with cosmic calf, hung like dried stalks of grain with their kin > by the thousands to be "processed". > > So if one ever ate meat of any kind, and did not kill it yourself > and give thanks to the animal spirit, then one has no room to speak > of the wrongness of hunting Bear who lives free and dies free > who is honored by his sacrifice.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: MarshaV > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:18:27 AM > Subject: Re: [MD] Smokey Bear Sutra > > > > I love myself > > I love you > > --- > > I love you > > I love myself > > > > > At 12:12 AM 6/18/2009, you wrote: > >> The Whale Who Dreamed It Was A Bear Who Dreamed It Was A Whale >> >> Billions and billions of years ago, way back when the Universe was a much >> warmer, much younger, and a much more blue place there lived a giant whale >> named White-Bear-Dancing who swam between the dusty expanses of exploding >> supernovas and newborn stars on sparkling dancing waters that -- due to the >> ever-faster expansion of the Universe -- have since become thin and diffuse >> and no longer capable of sustaining life. >> >> As it swam along fast-fluid corridors of warm vibrant liquid >> White-Bear-Dancing breathed in great gulps of life-giving liquids and >> through the gargantuan black-gaping blow-hole situated on the top of its >> head the giant whale spouted enormous geysers filled with condensed gases >> and tiny droplets each containing the seed of life growing deep inside its >> dark cavernous lungs forever breathing in and out, in and out. >> >> Since the Universe was (and still is) round White-Bear-Dancing found that it >> had to swim in circles and though it really didn't know why, it discovered >> by trial and error that it much preferred swimming to the right to swimming >> to the left and so the giant whale imparted a right-hand spin to all the >> life-giving waters it blew out its spout as it circled to-and-fro throughout >> the Universe always turning to the right as it went. >> >> The giant whale didn't remember where it came from nor did it have a >> particular goal in mind; it simply never occurred to it to wonder at the >> wonder of it all, but it did finally fall sleep after many eons of wandering >> amongst the fast-forming galaxies and dreamed a dream of a beautiful blue >> world spinning endlessly in the blackest of nights. >> >> One day after a sleep of many billions of years the giant whale woke up and >> discovered the Universe had become a mean polluted place filled with plastic >> bottles, beach balls, and used computer monitors that clogged its blow-hole >> and caused it to sneeze mighty sneezes that made galaxies collide and stars >> wink out in an instant like candles on a birthday cake. >> >> White-Bear-Dancing went in search of the source of the ever-growing stream >> of trash, eventually following the trail back, back, back to the little blue >> dream planet spinning madly around a tiny yellow star in an otherwise >> unordinary and spectacularly unspectacular part of a cartwheel galaxy known >> as the Milky Way to the speckled people who populated the pale blue dot >> known as Earth. >> >> Gazing down onto the tiny treasure, the giant whale suddenly realized that >> even though the Universe was forever growing larger, larger, larger, the >> whale itself was not and so now it was no longer a giant whale but merely a >> very large one, and as the gaze was a gaze (like everything the whale did) >> to the right, it spiraled down, down, down into the atmosphere of the tiny >> blue planet plummeting faster and faster until finally impaling itself in >> the middle of a soft muddy bog in the middle of a large continent that would >> one day become known as North America. >> >> The rather large whale carved out a hole in the land that would one day fill >> with water and be called Lake Michigan but for now it lay gasping to get the >> breath back that had been knocked out with the sudden stop afforded by the >> soft yet still remarkably resilient bog in which it had settled. >> >> Then, a bright star rose up into the sky and shining down upon the large >> whale began to dry it out and cause it to shrink smaller and smaller and >> smaller until it lay in the middle of a vast depression formed when it hit >> the earth ages ago. >> >> As it dried out the whale's fins became arms and legs and its tail >> disappeared to a little nub and it grew fur over its body and it learned to >> grunt and growl in pleasure and pain like the bear the whale had become as >> it made stunning discoveries about this new world it now inhabited. >> >> The bear didn't remember being a whale; the bear didn't remember anything at >> all before it became a bear and in fact such a thought never entered its >> head in all the days of its life... the bear met another bear and had cubs, >> raising them together in a warm cozy den that the bear entered by entering a >> cave and turning right several times. >> >> The bear became known as Boo Bear, third cousin to Smoky Bear (though twice >> removed by marriage) and best friends with Master Yogi, who taught a night >> class in mindful meditation at the local community church on Thursdays and >> Saturdays and worked a day job as a garbage man (or sanitation professional >> as he preferred to be called) in the local forest preserve. >> >> One day Boo Bear and Yogi were sitting on the long wavy green grass by a >> rainbow waterfall having a discourse over the collected works of Plato when >> an arrow came shooting out of the nearby brush BLAM! striking Boo Bear in >> the middle of her breast, piercing her aorta and filling her left lung with >> blood, which gushed from her mouth and nostrils as the life ran out of her >> body and her arms and legs twitched spasmodically and Yogi ran in circles >> screaming and shouting. >> >> The Hunter came out of the brush chasing Yogi away and then kneeling and >> cutting Boo's liver from her still warm body, raising it to the sky in >> thanks, not realizing what he had done in the name of his hunger, never >> knowing what wonders Boo had seen, not caring for the cubs at her den who >> would never see their mother again. >> >> As per her last wish, her cremated remains were scattered to the breeze >> whereas a tremendous mighty wind arose and blowing the ashes higher and >> higher in a clockwise spiral they finally blew all the way back into the >> night from which she had fallen so many years ago, and she remembered the >> dream she was dreaming and became a whale once again, riding through the >> stars leaving a little trail of broken pieces of her heart as she goes. >> >> >> ---------------------------------------- >>> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:15:25 -0700 >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [MD] Smokey Bear Sutra >>> >>> SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRABY GARY SNYDER >>> >>> Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in >>> this corner of the Infinite Void gave a discourse to all the assembled >>> elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, the >>> flying beings, and the sitting beings--even the grasses, to the number of >>> thirteen billion, each one born from a seed, assembled there: a Discourse >>> concerning Enlightenment on the planet Earth. >>> >>> "In some future time, there will be a continent called America. It will have >>> great centers of power called such as Pyramid Lake, Walden Pond, Mt. >>> Rainier, Big Sur, Everglades, and so forth; and powerful nerves and channels >>> such as Columbia River, Mississippi River, and Grand Canyon. The human race >>> in that era will get into troubles all over its head, and practically wreck >>> everything in spite of its own strong intelligent Buddha-nature." >>> >>> "The twisting strata of the great mountains and the pulsings of volcanoes >>> are my love burning deep in the earth. My obstinate compassion is schist and >>> basalt and granite, to be mountains, to bring down the rain. In that future >>> American Era I shall enter a new form; to cure the world of loveless >>> knowledge that seeks with blind hunger: and mindless rage eating food that >>> will not fill it." >>> >>> And he showed himself in his true form of >>> SMOKEY THE BEAR >>> >>> A handsome smokey-colored brown bear standing on his hind legs, showing that >>> he is aroused and watchful. >>> >>> Bearing in his right paw the Shovel that digs to the truth beneath >>> appearances; cuts the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on >>> the fires of greed and war; >>> >>> His left paw in the mudra of Comradely Display--indicating that all >>> creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that of deer, >>> rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of >>> the Dharma; >>> >>> Wearing the blue work overalls symbolic of slaves and laborers, the >>> countless men oppressed by a civilization that claims to save but often >>> destroys; >>> >>> Wearing the broad-brimmed hat of the west, symbolic of the forces that guard >>> the wilderness, which is the Natural State of the Dharma and the true path >>> of man on Earth: >>> >>> *all true paths lead through mountains*-- >>> >>> With a halo of smoke and flame behind, the forest fires of the kali-yuga, >>> fires caused by the stupidity of those who think things can be gained and >>> lost whereas in truth all is contained vast and free in the Blue Sky and >>> Green Earth of One Mind; >>> >>> Round-bellied to show his kind nature and that the great earth has food >>> enough for everyone who loves her and trusts her; >>> >>> Trampling underfoot wasteful freeways and needless suburbs, smashing the >>> worms of capitalism and totalitarianism; >>> >>> Indicating the task: his followers, becoming free of cars, houses, canned >>> foods, universities, and shoes, master the Three Mysteries of their own >>> Body, Speech, and Mind; and fearlessly chop down the rotten trees and prune >>> out the sick limbs of this country America and then burn the leftover trash. >>> >>> Wrathful but calm. Austere but Comic. 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