Gandhi's Seven Deadly Sins
BhagavadGita
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"Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi, one of the most influential figures in modern social and political activism, considered these traits to be the most spiritually perilous to humanity."
Wealth without Work - no worries here!
Pleasure without Conscience - uh, opps
Science without Humanity - what?
Knowledge without Character - I knew that!
Politics without Principle - i think i have this and that is good right?
Commerce without Morality - i want to save trees so i think there is good for me here....
Worship without Sacrifice - oh yea....
i think my real name should be:
BABAGOONOOSHGita
i mock the real gita.
im full of Indian sin.
i know someone will stone me in a courtyard someday and instead of singing a song to the Lord I will be doin some
OBSENCE SHOUTING AT THE LORD
Wealth without Work - no worries here!
Pleasure without Conscience - uh, opps
Science without Humanity - what?
Knowledge without Character - I knew that!
Politics without Principle - i think i have this and that is good right?
Commerce without Morality - i want to save trees so i think there is good for me here....
Worship without Sacrifice - oh yea....
i think my real name should be:
BABAGOONOOSHGita
i mock the real gita.
im full of Indian sin.
i know someone will stone me in a courtyard someday and instead of singing a song to the Lord I will be doin some
OBSENCE SHOUTING AT THE LORD
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now
wouldn't that be scarey???
buddha blue, too many rules
goldie tao SAYS hey, leave those rocks allone
me girl gita
she be so fine ok
(cassia beams mica flecks at baghavagitagirl)
i got yr back, deepforestside
what was that bioluminescent term i saw...aqua somethin/
spin
sparkle
shine
&
give off yr own kind of light, gitala kamala AUDI 5 TAOZEN
I quoted Rabindranath Tagore.
I quoted vedantic scriptures,
citing extracts aplenty:
I would've written more.
But when I went to submit my post
The Message Pit database crashed on me.
I tried to send thoughtwaves when lines were lost,
Since science wasn't being humane to me.
But now I see a message, great, unfolds
From the "Bhagavad-Gita":
"I am the destroyer
of worlds....
Don't go sending this board shit- ah."
time to practice the ol' telepathy
when wonderworks dim
the
over-reaching arc of the eye
can defeat all space-time
YOU BLOW MY MIND!!!!
.
i hate peeps.
but they would be fun to be pelted with.
are you doing the pelting?
i thought they would look pretty in lasers
cause thats what i use to do
was mix cocktails in planetariums and when i said the world
BIOLUMINISENT
it made my sweet Radar cry a sad story about a beautiful genius unsmart friend who said the most profound things and they always called smart thoughts
bioluminisent.
and thats what it is all about now for me. thanks to radar's story telling monkey self.
and its always blue in my book.
To shake away these webs of whims
Tightly compacted across the universe's inexpert eyes
is a tired doctor
with a powered torch
Burning the web opaque
and blowing it away
With one uncouth, cosmic grunt,
and saying,
"The fools, the fools,
won't they just for once betray themselves, and shush?"
Oh well, someone has to pick up the peeps.
no party here, just elevated thought that is all
dont clean up
cop a squat and have a smoke.
and last night brad pitt in movie seven on
and this morning i wake up and just happen to notice
it's 7 frickin degrees...haha
a plethora of sevens
and DYAO party on, the PARTY PERPETUAL
AND
PEARLY
OOH pearly peeps
oh, that tickles me. purple peeps. pickled peeps.
oh yeh,
let's keep it Topical...we were discussing sin....
finsbury was going to quote Tagore...
In a conversation with Einstein, Tagore implied that if we, uh..behave ourselves properly, we can have a deeper felt
expression of our being...
"If in our conduct we can follow the law of goodness, we can have real liberty of self-expression."
I think even Epicurus was getting at the nature of pleasure as it fits in societal well-being...ie how pleasurable is an act if it has unpleasurable consequences (individually or socially)....
so
the pleasure (short term) should be considered in light of the longer term pleasures...
what i personally call "ultimate pleasure"
so, say, I would weigh the idea of consuming a peep
(zil temptation there)
no no no better Analogy=
i am tempted to eat a Hershey's chocolate....
but it's low on the charts
in desirability compared to a delectable gourmet dark chocolate truffle from Switzerland....
so, weighing the pleasures, i will wait for the better/or sacrifice and go out of my way for MORE PLEASURE....
nOW, i like what joseph campbell said about following yr bliss.
BaghavadGita, i believe that if we freeflow with our deepest impellings and intuition, it will ALWAYS lead to the best result
for ALL involved...
if we are Happy, truly deeply Happy, IT IS THE BEST FOR SOCIETY
ps. as to sin of pleasure w/out conscience....
THE GREATER SIN WOULD BE PLEASURE WITHOUT
CONSCIOUSNESS
haha, i want to be super-conscious in the now
to enjoy my pleasure
LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE, yr marshmallow-pelter
i too have been reveling in sevens. my lucky number right now.
im not always sure what you are talking about but i think im not always sure what i am talking about and if that is the case ms peeps, then we are forever friends..
and maybe someday
you'll let me
be the one who blows your mandala away.
Gita Sin Say
so, if you're not sure
what i'm talking
About
that is sooooooooo OK
well, mostly i jibberjabber and the reaction i get is often something like people say "i really like you, but i don't understand about half of what you're saying"
and i have this odd (didn't know it was odd til pointed out
habit of talking to people in the lettuce section of the grocery
just being friendly but
inevitably, friends, strangers, children
just turn to me and say
YOU'RE WEIRD.
nOW, THIS really use to play upon my Insecurities, cuz
i was just being friendly and Enthusiastic.
I GET wayyyyyyy too excited when i see the little jewelly chips of mica sparkling in the sidewalk
Or
just this morning i think a lady thought i was having a heartattack at the donut shop cuz i was standing at the window clasping my chest
and it was only because i was Rhapsodizing
over this incredibly lush layer Sunrise of ohmyfrickin god
purple (purple cuz low grey clouds bouncing back off
deep lavender of sun rising)
neon lemons
quiet greened quail egg blues
fuchsia electric apricots
and of course GOLD GOLD GOLD
and the trees
were wizardy cool silhouetted with gnarly black ballet branches
and
SO SEE im kookee haha, but kind
and i love kaliedoscopes
and twirling
on a wet grass hill till i get dizzy
and i lovelovelove TREES TREES TREES
AND
i pet trees especially in berkeley where i lived there were trees redwood with soft furry sorrel colored bark and once a tree spoke to my mind (and i wasn't even near by, he came to me while i was in my room) and he said Hi my name is Benjamin, and if you
want to astro-travel into me you can and you'll be safe.
i loved that he made that offer, but i have never astro-traveled.
only had tiny obe out of body experiences.
when i was a lil girl i read this tiny book by Joan Walsh Anglund.
probably why i like to write poetry now.
i was ten and i would go sit beneath this willowy tree and read my book "A Friend is Someone Who Likes You"
WELL
in this book was the line (with a picture...)
"Even a tree can be your friend."
so well i looked up at the tree with my young eyes, and i said
"I love you, tree."
And I love trees sooooooooooooo much.
so you must be my truefriend. and did you know that word origin wise true and tree are the same...from the same "root"
giggles
and hey too guess what when i was in Seattle area i went to Snowqualmie and there are these dynamite cool trees in there
and I HUGGED ONE so fast and sexy and my friend freaked out
and said oh wow i've never seen anyone Really hug a tree before
but
oh Wow
Tree Energy is incredible!!! We were on our way to the Gorge to see a concert....
I think the tree was a cedar type, sorta hemlock looking one.
well ok wowwowow TREES. loveleaf trees. by my window here is a majestic norwegian spruce tree, completely generous--he gives a home to squirrels and chickadees, and purple finches and bright red cardinals. Love//sugarcubeforestbjork
Put their braincells to some use.
Love
Finsbury
....haven't seen her for ages, but she emails about twice a week. She's into rowan trees right now! (If I knew how to put a smiley here, I would!)
Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest person whom you have seen, and ask yourself if the next step you contemplate is going to be of any use to that person. Will that person gain anything by it? Will it restore that person to a control over his or her own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to freedom for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away.
~Vol. 89, August 1947
I reccomend:
Mohandas Gandhi~Essential Writings~ by John Dear
John has had some interesting experences himself. Look him up on the web.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007164726/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-3674954-9020615#product-details