Bodhisattva, Karmic Shepard, part 1

[David Morris]

That last line was meant as a joke.

The gist was a take on reality and experience.

David Morris

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 6:36 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> fuck that. god has nothing to do with it. its just a handy metaphor for
> displacing responsibility. comes to that it's me that pisses me off, not
> god. i could be doing more to set my life right.
>
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 9:34 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/b_fbodi.htm
>
> Many Eastern spiritual paths believe that all beings are ultimately not
> separate individuals, but are instead eternal and recurring individual
> manifestations of a single all-pervading creating Consciousness, both
> creator and perceiver. In this schema Shakespeare was right: "All the
> world's but a stage." Perceived reality is paper thin.  Real reality is a
> unifying Consciousness that stages a play for itself.  Shiva and Shakti.
> Underneath all perceived reality is the creator who is us, both Shiva and
> Shakti, who are one.
>
> So, next is the Matrix-like concept that everything we see is an illusion,
> a deception.  But in this case the deception is a state assumed voluntary,
> like taking a drug.  In this matrix God has intentionally given himself a
> Mickey to see if he can find his way back to himself. A perverse god,
> willingly creating bad in order to experience it, which wouldn't be so bad,
> except we are his vehicles of experience. Creation in this scenario is a
> game God is playing with himself.  How postmodern is that?
>
> David Morris
>
> God pisse me off!
>
> David Morris
>
>
>
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