Bodhisattva, Karmic Shepard, part 1

[Bruno]

Sorry about that, I hit tab and then some other button (I hate that tab,
makes me lose so many e-mails). So:

I see it as a lighthearted take on the question that Eastern or Western
religion cannot answer in satisfying way, and is so well put by
Wittgenstein in the Tractatus:
The Mystic about the world is not *how *it is, but *that *it is.
That story about one true Consciousness doesn't give a good answer on why
there is a Maya (our illusory world). Neither does Christianity: why did
good bother to create a world? If he was perfect, he wouldn't have to do
anything besides what he already was doing.


2017-04-10 9:49 GMT-05:00 Bruno <bruno.laze at gmail.com>:

> 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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