Bodhisattva, Karmic Shepard, part 1

[Bruno]

I don't think that's postmodern; I see it as a lighthearted take on the
question that Eastern or Western religion can

2017-04-09 8:27 GMT-05:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:

> 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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