Truth
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- Joined
- Sep 26, 2001
This seems to have a little something for everyone willing to read it all. Hope it is not a duplicate but such is the risk with stuff that appears in the e-mail inbox.
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Swami's 2003 State of the Universe Address
by Swami Beyondananda
Hello everybody -- it is great to be here ... and you know
what? We really have no choice. Because no matter where we
are, we are always here. And it is always now. In fact,
there's even a book called The Power of Now. I haven't had
time to read it yet, but I hope to get to it in a later now.
Meanwhile, back in this now, the issue facing the United
States, and indeed the world is, will George Bush give in to
his Big Iraq Attack and order up a war? Latest reports say
that a war to force a regime change in Iraq will cost $200
billion. It is puzzling to me why some of those fiscal
fitness fanatics in the Republican Party haven't tried to
find a cheaper way to do it. Maybe if they offered the
Iraqis half -- $100 billion -- they could do it themselves.
Then we'd still have $100 billion left to spend on regime
change in this country.
Because -- and I have to be blunt here -- the folks we have
in charge are fossils fueled by fossil fuels. And in the
reptilian brain, problems aren't solved, they're attacked.
Like the War on Poverty. Remember that? I'm happy to report
that it's finally over. The poor people have all
surrendered. And take the War on Drugs -- please! How many
billions have they spent? My solution is cheaper and more
effective ... improve reality!
Now we have the War on Terrorism. We're going to terrorize
those terrorists into giving up terrorism if it's the last
thing we do! And it just might be. The good news is -- and I
have it on the Highest Authority -- there will indeed be
peace on Earth. Whether we humans are around to enjoy it,
that is up to us.
No wonder there is so much fear, uncertainty and confusion
on the planet. I'll tell you how bad it's gotten. You've
heard of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle? Well, they're
not even sure about THAT anymore. And so, more and more
people are turning to the mystics for answers.
I have often said there are two kinds of mystics, the
optimystics and the pessimystics. Now pessimystics seem to
be more in touch with "reality," but optimystics are happier
and live longer for some reason. The pessimystics have been
crying, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!" The
optimystics say, "No. It just looks that way because we are
ascending."
Now, for those people who read the news -- not to mention
those unfortunate enough to BE in the news -- last year was
not an easy year to keep an optimystic attitude with so much
pessimystic evidence. Call me a hopeless "hopium" addict,
but I choose to accentuate the positive. For example, you
can say we human beings have moved further down the path of
self-destruction. Or you could say the Earth is ridding
itself of a virulent parasite.
You can despair over continuing war, disease and starvation,
or you can go, "Hey, population control the good, old
fashioned way -- without birth control or abortion." Who
says "compassionate conservative" is an oxymoron?
You can worry about the government taking liberties with our
liberties or you can say, "Life has become simpler! They've
boiled the Bill of Rights down to just one: You have the
right to remain silent."
So I am not going to dwell on the negative. As my guru Harry
Cohen Baba used to say, "Life is like photography ... we use
the negative to develop." So let us look at the bright side.
Like technological advances, for example. Forty years ago
President John F. Kennedy promised to have a man on the moon
by the end of the 1960s. Well, we have far exceeded that.
Thanks to the so-called Patriot Act, George Bush can have a
man on Uranus by the end of the week!
George Bush was responsible for a great spiritual advance
last year, as well. He upgraded the Golden Rule for the new
millennium. It's now the Gold Rule: "Doodoo unto others
before they can doodoo unto you."
And -- say what you will -- President Bush has made great
strides on behalf of minority representation. Never before
have we had a President who was looking out for a smaller
minority.
Now this is the State of the Universe Address, and seen from
that higher perspective, things look great! I am happy to
report that the Universe continued to expand in 2002, and in
fact, they actually had to let the Photon Belt out a another
notch. An expanding Universe means more jobs too, so we can
expect a steady influx of aliens looking for work. Yep, the
Universe just keeps purring in perfection, ever-changing as
usual. The planets continue to harmoniously spin in their
orbits, and except for the occasional case of asteroids,
they just calmly go about their business.
Meanwhile, back here on earth, things are a bit more
problematic. We still haven't fully recovered from that
vicious dogma attack of 911. But as an optimystic, I believe
you can indeed teach an old dogma new tricks, simply by
changing the emPHAsis to another sylLABle. Instead of
focusing only on emergency measures, why not take emerge 'n
SEE measures?
When we emerge from our fearful hiding places and see from
the cosmic comic perspective, we realize that beneath all
the stress and distress and sadness in life there is a deep
well of joy. Each time we let laughter bubble up from the
well, we experience deep wellness. Levity helps us overcome
gravity, especially when we shine the light of laughter on
those poorly-lit corridors of power.
Do you know what the leading cause of terrorism is? It's
seriousness. I'm serious. Think about it. Those people have
no sense of humor. Otherwise how could they believe they
will get to heaven by putting other people through hell?
Here is my vision: A suicide bomber arrives at the Gates of
Heaven, and God clops him over the head and says, "SCHMUCK!
What'd you do that for? 72 virgins? YOU get one 72-year-old
virgin, and his name starts with Ayatollah!"
But if Americans are willing to revive the Iraqi Horror
Picture Show just to feed our out-of-control oil habit, how
are we that different? How many innocents will be put
through hell, just to preserve our little corner of relative
heaven? There is no real peace without harmony and balance,
only the vicious cycle of injustice. Peons get tired of
getting peed on, right? You get pissed on, and pretty soon
you're gonna get pissed off. This causes the hot spots to
flare, and pretty soon you have an uprising, which usually
results in a downfall. All these uprisings and downfalls can
be wearing on the body politic.
Fortunately, we do have a choice. One of my favorite stories
recently is about a Native American grandfather talking to
his young grandson. He tells the boy he has two wolves
inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the
wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear,
greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks
the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.
Every day -- every moment -- we have the choice to feed the
wolf of love or the wolf of fear. It is interesting that we
are called humanKIND. What better time than now to find out,
can mankind treat man kindly?
I have a dream ... I call it tell-a-vision. I say, if you're
dissatisfied with the current programming, you can turn off
your TV and tell a vision instead. Here is my vision:
Remember the Manhattan Project during World War II? It took
less than four years for a group of scientists to develop
the first weapon of mass destruction. My vision is, we can
do even better for an even worthier goal. We could call it
the Manhelpin Project, and its purpose would be to develop
the first weapon of mass construction instead.
Think about it. What if we used that $200 billion set to
detonate in Iraq, and put it toward becoming the worldwide
leader in renewable, clean, sustainable energy sources? Now
there's some real power. Create something so plentiful you
don't have to pay an army to protect your share. A healthy
income, a healthy outcome ... what could possibly make more
sense? Boy, talk about feeding two birds with one scone!
The choice is up to us. If we want an alternative, we must
feed the "alter native" economy ... anything that alters us
natives for the better. The world we live in is a byproduct
of the products we buy, is it not? What if we only choose to
buy products with healthy byproducts? Think about this:
There are at least 45 million Americans who consciously want
to feed the wolf of peace. If each of us switched just $100
into the alter native economy, that would be $4.5 billion!
Last year, we launched a blisskrieg and declared "all out
peace." I'm happy to report it is already working. More
people are letting their inner peace out, and these
outbreaks of peace are actually causing esteem to rise! And
we all know that rising esteem is good for the atmosphere.
As esteem rises, more people on the planet will be able to
be all that they can be -- without joining the army. And
when more of us put our energy into love and laughter
instead of criticizing and condemning, we will have
Uncritical Mass ... and we will bring about Nonjudgment Day,
and along with it, Disarmaggedon. Now you might be
wondering, what will Nonjudgment Day look like? Let me tell
another vision.
I have been to the heights of levity, and I have seen people
all over the world dancing together in the universal dance
of fool realization ... The Hokey Pokey. I want you to hold
this vision with me: all of the world leaders at the United
Nations beginning their sessions with the Hokey Pokey. What
if Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat put their whole selves in
in? That would be commitment. And then pulled their whole
selves out. That is detachment. Then they turn themselves
around, which is transformation. And that, my friends, is
what it is all about!
So, how can you help raise the laugh force on the planet
enough to bring about Nonjudgment Day? First, you can take a
vow of levity, and laugh more. And we even have a Laughmore
Society to help you do just that. Next, you can support
everyone's right to laugh by joining the Right To Laugh
Party ... "One big party, everyone is invited. All for fun,
and fun for all."
Commit random acts of comedy. Practice Fun Shui and leave
the world a funnier place. Anything to elicit a moment of of
fool-realization with a spark of laughter. Because only when
we lovingly laugh at our foolishness, can we seriously
change things for the better . May you wake up laughing and
leave laughter in your wake ... and may the Farce be with you!
--------------------
Swami's 2003 State of the Universe Address
by Swami Beyondananda
Hello everybody -- it is great to be here ... and you know
what? We really have no choice. Because no matter where we
are, we are always here. And it is always now. In fact,
there's even a book called The Power of Now. I haven't had
time to read it yet, but I hope to get to it in a later now.
Meanwhile, back in this now, the issue facing the United
States, and indeed the world is, will George Bush give in to
his Big Iraq Attack and order up a war? Latest reports say
that a war to force a regime change in Iraq will cost $200
billion. It is puzzling to me why some of those fiscal
fitness fanatics in the Republican Party haven't tried to
find a cheaper way to do it. Maybe if they offered the
Iraqis half -- $100 billion -- they could do it themselves.
Then we'd still have $100 billion left to spend on regime
change in this country.
Because -- and I have to be blunt here -- the folks we have
in charge are fossils fueled by fossil fuels. And in the
reptilian brain, problems aren't solved, they're attacked.
Like the War on Poverty. Remember that? I'm happy to report
that it's finally over. The poor people have all
surrendered. And take the War on Drugs -- please! How many
billions have they spent? My solution is cheaper and more
effective ... improve reality!
Now we have the War on Terrorism. We're going to terrorize
those terrorists into giving up terrorism if it's the last
thing we do! And it just might be. The good news is -- and I
have it on the Highest Authority -- there will indeed be
peace on Earth. Whether we humans are around to enjoy it,
that is up to us.
No wonder there is so much fear, uncertainty and confusion
on the planet. I'll tell you how bad it's gotten. You've
heard of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle? Well, they're
not even sure about THAT anymore. And so, more and more
people are turning to the mystics for answers.
I have often said there are two kinds of mystics, the
optimystics and the pessimystics. Now pessimystics seem to
be more in touch with "reality," but optimystics are happier
and live longer for some reason. The pessimystics have been
crying, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!" The
optimystics say, "No. It just looks that way because we are
ascending."
Now, for those people who read the news -- not to mention
those unfortunate enough to BE in the news -- last year was
not an easy year to keep an optimystic attitude with so much
pessimystic evidence. Call me a hopeless "hopium" addict,
but I choose to accentuate the positive. For example, you
can say we human beings have moved further down the path of
self-destruction. Or you could say the Earth is ridding
itself of a virulent parasite.
You can despair over continuing war, disease and starvation,
or you can go, "Hey, population control the good, old
fashioned way -- without birth control or abortion." Who
says "compassionate conservative" is an oxymoron?
You can worry about the government taking liberties with our
liberties or you can say, "Life has become simpler! They've
boiled the Bill of Rights down to just one: You have the
right to remain silent."
So I am not going to dwell on the negative. As my guru Harry
Cohen Baba used to say, "Life is like photography ... we use
the negative to develop." So let us look at the bright side.
Like technological advances, for example. Forty years ago
President John F. Kennedy promised to have a man on the moon
by the end of the 1960s. Well, we have far exceeded that.
Thanks to the so-called Patriot Act, George Bush can have a
man on Uranus by the end of the week!
George Bush was responsible for a great spiritual advance
last year, as well. He upgraded the Golden Rule for the new
millennium. It's now the Gold Rule: "Doodoo unto others
before they can doodoo unto you."
And -- say what you will -- President Bush has made great
strides on behalf of minority representation. Never before
have we had a President who was looking out for a smaller
minority.
Now this is the State of the Universe Address, and seen from
that higher perspective, things look great! I am happy to
report that the Universe continued to expand in 2002, and in
fact, they actually had to let the Photon Belt out a another
notch. An expanding Universe means more jobs too, so we can
expect a steady influx of aliens looking for work. Yep, the
Universe just keeps purring in perfection, ever-changing as
usual. The planets continue to harmoniously spin in their
orbits, and except for the occasional case of asteroids,
they just calmly go about their business.
Meanwhile, back here on earth, things are a bit more
problematic. We still haven't fully recovered from that
vicious dogma attack of 911. But as an optimystic, I believe
you can indeed teach an old dogma new tricks, simply by
changing the emPHAsis to another sylLABle. Instead of
focusing only on emergency measures, why not take emerge 'n
SEE measures?
When we emerge from our fearful hiding places and see from
the cosmic comic perspective, we realize that beneath all
the stress and distress and sadness in life there is a deep
well of joy. Each time we let laughter bubble up from the
well, we experience deep wellness. Levity helps us overcome
gravity, especially when we shine the light of laughter on
those poorly-lit corridors of power.
Do you know what the leading cause of terrorism is? It's
seriousness. I'm serious. Think about it. Those people have
no sense of humor. Otherwise how could they believe they
will get to heaven by putting other people through hell?
Here is my vision: A suicide bomber arrives at the Gates of
Heaven, and God clops him over the head and says, "SCHMUCK!
What'd you do that for? 72 virgins? YOU get one 72-year-old
virgin, and his name starts with Ayatollah!"
But if Americans are willing to revive the Iraqi Horror
Picture Show just to feed our out-of-control oil habit, how
are we that different? How many innocents will be put
through hell, just to preserve our little corner of relative
heaven? There is no real peace without harmony and balance,
only the vicious cycle of injustice. Peons get tired of
getting peed on, right? You get pissed on, and pretty soon
you're gonna get pissed off. This causes the hot spots to
flare, and pretty soon you have an uprising, which usually
results in a downfall. All these uprisings and downfalls can
be wearing on the body politic.
Fortunately, we do have a choice. One of my favorite stories
recently is about a Native American grandfather talking to
his young grandson. He tells the boy he has two wolves
inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the
wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear,
greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks
the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.
Every day -- every moment -- we have the choice to feed the
wolf of love or the wolf of fear. It is interesting that we
are called humanKIND. What better time than now to find out,
can mankind treat man kindly?
I have a dream ... I call it tell-a-vision. I say, if you're
dissatisfied with the current programming, you can turn off
your TV and tell a vision instead. Here is my vision:
Remember the Manhattan Project during World War II? It took
less than four years for a group of scientists to develop
the first weapon of mass destruction. My vision is, we can
do even better for an even worthier goal. We could call it
the Manhelpin Project, and its purpose would be to develop
the first weapon of mass construction instead.
Think about it. What if we used that $200 billion set to
detonate in Iraq, and put it toward becoming the worldwide
leader in renewable, clean, sustainable energy sources? Now
there's some real power. Create something so plentiful you
don't have to pay an army to protect your share. A healthy
income, a healthy outcome ... what could possibly make more
sense? Boy, talk about feeding two birds with one scone!
The choice is up to us. If we want an alternative, we must
feed the "alter native" economy ... anything that alters us
natives for the better. The world we live in is a byproduct
of the products we buy, is it not? What if we only choose to
buy products with healthy byproducts? Think about this:
There are at least 45 million Americans who consciously want
to feed the wolf of peace. If each of us switched just $100
into the alter native economy, that would be $4.5 billion!
Last year, we launched a blisskrieg and declared "all out
peace." I'm happy to report it is already working. More
people are letting their inner peace out, and these
outbreaks of peace are actually causing esteem to rise! And
we all know that rising esteem is good for the atmosphere.
As esteem rises, more people on the planet will be able to
be all that they can be -- without joining the army. And
when more of us put our energy into love and laughter
instead of criticizing and condemning, we will have
Uncritical Mass ... and we will bring about Nonjudgment Day,
and along with it, Disarmaggedon. Now you might be
wondering, what will Nonjudgment Day look like? Let me tell
another vision.
I have been to the heights of levity, and I have seen people
all over the world dancing together in the universal dance
of fool realization ... The Hokey Pokey. I want you to hold
this vision with me: all of the world leaders at the United
Nations beginning their sessions with the Hokey Pokey. What
if Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat put their whole selves in
in? That would be commitment. And then pulled their whole
selves out. That is detachment. Then they turn themselves
around, which is transformation. And that, my friends, is
what it is all about!
So, how can you help raise the laugh force on the planet
enough to bring about Nonjudgment Day? First, you can take a
vow of levity, and laugh more. And we even have a Laughmore
Society to help you do just that. Next, you can support
everyone's right to laugh by joining the Right To Laugh
Party ... "One big party, everyone is invited. All for fun,
and fun for all."
Commit random acts of comedy. Practice Fun Shui and leave
the world a funnier place. Anything to elicit a moment of of
fool-realization with a spark of laughter. Because only when
we lovingly laugh at our foolishness, can we seriously
change things for the better . May you wake up laughing and
leave laughter in your wake ... and may the Farce be with you!
