zen4less@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: crawlingwageslave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: zen4less@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Got Yer message
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:50:51 -0700
>
> Byron Werner heard or read somewhere that you are into
> a Hindu kick and asked me if it's true. Will it last longer than
> your passing obsessions with theater, Dada, Surrealism, Ayn Rand,
> Republicanism, the John Birch Society, George McGovern, feminism,
> electronic music, Mercedes Benzes, Mesa Boogie Amps, Stratocaster
> guitars, get rich quick real estate schemes, etc. etc. etc.????
>
> Just being a smartass.
>
> Will you find Hindus to be just another bunch of liars
> as are the John Birch Society snotheads? Let me know
> so it saves me all the unnecessary reading.
>
> Satan Trubee
>
>
> (to which I just replied:)
>
> I've been interested in Eastern philosophies since I used to go to the
> Krishna Temple (ISKCON) in NYC every weekend back when I was a teenager
> with Barry Burkan. We'd eat free food and listen to them lecture us
> about Krishna. I didn't believe it, I didn't understand it, but I
> found it endlessly fascinating. When my father died many years ago, I
> placed a set of Krishna chanting beads in his coffin to be buried with
> him. Just a symbol.
>
> Krishna is not presented as a real person. Nor is Radha, his feminine
> side, nor Rama, or his earlier incarnations. There are some people who
> believe that Krishna is real, but there's no actual indication (kind of
> the same way some people believe Buddha to be God, even though he never
> claimed to be). The stories of Krishna like the Ramayan (my favorite)
> and the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabarat represent Krishna as the good
> and evil inside all of us, and our constant internal conflicts and
> moral crisies. Meditation and chanting OM bring us closer in tune with
> our inner, central selves, relaxes us, and better enable us to make
> important daily decisions about the complexities of right and wrong.
> The stories are fun, the conversations between the characters are
> interesting and educational, and I like it.
>
> Do I believe it? Not quite yet, but I'm trying. Until then, I'll keep
> meditating (something I've done all my life), eating Indian food, and
> wanting a sitar for Xmas. Ultimately, I don't think it matters whether
> any of us believe in a God or not--what matters most is doing the right
> thing on this planet while we're here. A good deed, regardless of the
> source, is still a good deed. Ayn Rand said to serve yourself. So
> does Krishna.
>
>
> --Zoogz Rift
> http://zoogzrift.4mg.com/
>
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