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Date Posted: 03:36:56 03/03/01 Sat
In reply to:
Paul
's message, "Re: Has anybody seen my car keys?" on 15:07:00 03/02/01 Fri
I like the sound of that porch, those beers and that laughter. Get in a stock of Camel cigarettes for Ben and me, too!
However, I have a feeling (and perhaps I'm wrong) that you and Ben are being a touch hypermasculine here and this "nothing is really happening" phrase reminds me of so many Advaita-type phrases. I'm also thinking about what Saniel says about not treating other people and events as somehow a "subset" of oneself. For, after all, there are many of us "sources" here and we may be all one, but there is also the paradox of us all being completely different. I'm fumbling around here as I'm not totally clear on what I'm trying to say, only that when I'm going through some terrible suffering (especially physical perhaps) it really ISN'T A JOKE at all; and when I think of all I've been through and still have to go through probably, again IT'S NO JOKE. Let alone all the mental and physical and emotional suffering of others. Yes, others. To think it's not happening to anyone, or that nothing is happening, is, to me, the sort of denial I used to read in various other spiritual teachings (as I say, most notably Advaita; I'm not that au fait with Zen and the like). Laughing at our misfortunes is easy at a distance and when it's all over or not too serious and, although ok sometimes, I think it is on occasion a betrayal of how others may be suffering or indeed how oneself may be suffering: I know, as I've been guilty of it myself. Perhaps we somehow need to keep BOTH perspectives going - the humour and the REAL compassion at the same time; the comedy and the tragedy; without getting too caught up in either one?
Sorry to bring you guys down...
xxxGillxxx
PS. I'm also rather fond of Pernod (in case we run out of beers).
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