This is an excerpt from a great little book I am reading called The Red Book...
"Countless are the wise masters who've said that our entire existence, as meaningful and profound as it is, is also probably one big cosmic joke. On us. Legendary comic Charlie Chaplin once said "In the end, everything is a gag." Take a look around your life sometime; it can certainly feel like life is one giant prank. We've all had those surreal moments, like when you're staring down some seriously lofty truths or reeling from some profound personal realizations or listening, reading, or speaking about something so incredibley deep and heavy it would make flowers cry, and then you get this sort of weird existential hiccup. Your lens shifts, your spiritual underpants are pulled down, and some raw part of you is suddenly exposed. The world, you, all of us wrapped up in our super-serious "spirituality" all suddenly appear to be like cute, tiny frozen peas, packed away in the back freezer aisle of the universe's supermarket of possibilities. It hits you like a rubber chicken smacked across your skull; We've only just begun to realize who we are and what this place is made of, and even when we do, we still could be, well, totally wrong.
The author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the late,great Douglas Adams, wrote, "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened" It can get extremely complicated when you try to make logical sense of why things are the way they are. Why are you here? What is the meaning of all of this? Why is there so much love and dazzling beauty in one moment and pain and violence in another? Why do you feel the divine's hot breath one night and a cold vacancy the next? Why are there so many wildly different belief systems to choose from? Why did that particular love end or that tragedy occur? Why do families dysfunction or friendships dissolve or personal beliefs get thrown or cute little puppies die or birds get crushed by cars or cute littel fishies get all eaten up bye-bye, yum-yum fish sticks? I mean what, really, is the point?
Approach spritiuality from a purely analytical standpoint, and I can guarantee that you'll come away with a massive migraine with a spicy side of existential angst. It's your choice. Try and tackle these classic, metaphysical brain twisters that philosophers and theologians have been struggling with for centuries and spend your whole life tying yourself up in infinite knots, or accept the mystery, the divine paradox, let go of trying to figure it all out, and enjoy the endless crazy ride."--Sera Beak
I think this is some wise counsel that made its way all the way from the great book sellers at Amazon today....:) I will take it.
"Countless are the wise masters who've said that our entire existence, as meaningful and profound as it is, is also probably one big cosmic joke. On us. Legendary comic Charlie Chaplin once said "In the end, everything is a gag." Take a look around your life sometime; it can certainly feel like life is one giant prank. We've all had those surreal moments, like when you're staring down some seriously lofty truths or reeling from some profound personal realizations or listening, reading, or speaking about something so incredibley deep and heavy it would make flowers cry, and then you get this sort of weird existential hiccup. Your lens shifts, your spiritual underpants are pulled down, and some raw part of you is suddenly exposed. The world, you, all of us wrapped up in our super-serious "spirituality" all suddenly appear to be like cute, tiny frozen peas, packed away in the back freezer aisle of the universe's supermarket of possibilities. It hits you like a rubber chicken smacked across your skull; We've only just begun to realize who we are and what this place is made of, and even when we do, we still could be, well, totally wrong.
The author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the late,great Douglas Adams, wrote, "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened" It can get extremely complicated when you try to make logical sense of why things are the way they are. Why are you here? What is the meaning of all of this? Why is there so much love and dazzling beauty in one moment and pain and violence in another? Why do you feel the divine's hot breath one night and a cold vacancy the next? Why are there so many wildly different belief systems to choose from? Why did that particular love end or that tragedy occur? Why do families dysfunction or friendships dissolve or personal beliefs get thrown or cute little puppies die or birds get crushed by cars or cute littel fishies get all eaten up bye-bye, yum-yum fish sticks? I mean what, really, is the point?
Approach spritiuality from a purely analytical standpoint, and I can guarantee that you'll come away with a massive migraine with a spicy side of existential angst. It's your choice. Try and tackle these classic, metaphysical brain twisters that philosophers and theologians have been struggling with for centuries and spend your whole life tying yourself up in infinite knots, or accept the mystery, the divine paradox, let go of trying to figure it all out, and enjoy the endless crazy ride."--Sera Beak
I think this is some wise counsel that made its way all the way from the great book sellers at Amazon today....:) I will take it.
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