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24-Dec-2005-13:48:07 |
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For the birthday boy |
Roughly two thousand years ago, a gentle man woke up to the equally gentle realization of who and what he really was -- infinity dancing in the finite. When he woke up, he realized that this new perception of being awake was not new; it had always already been present. He had just ignored it up to then because he'd been asleep.
Upon realizing that that infinity had always already been present for him, he realized that it had *also* always already been present for all the sleepers around him. So, being a compassionate kinda guy, he decided to try to help them wake them up so that they could share in the joy of being awake for a change.
Alas, he found that they were too primitive and too stupid and too self-involved and too attached to staying asleep to ever care about waking up. These people were *so* primitive that the only thing that impressed them and got them to pay any attention whatsoever to the gentle man was "miracles." Imagine that...they were *that* stupid.
Now the gentle man believed (rightly) that the so-called miracles people were asking him to perform were kind of a cheap shot, a waste of energy, hardly worthy of his time, but since it was the only thing that the sleepers seemed to care about, he indulged them. He still had hopes that if he got their attention with the miracles, they'd stick around to learn the important stuff, about awakening.
The gentle man was naive. The ignorant of his time chose to remain ignorant, and focus on the cheap flash rather than the important stuff he was trying to teach them. They chose to remain asleep and follow him like sleepwalking sheep, and in the end wound up killing the gentle man to make him safer and easier to follow. Now, 2000 years later, the religions that the followers founded in the gentle man's
name once they'd gotten him safely out of the way rarely even pretend to really believe in the miracles any more, much less the awakening stuff.
So it goes. The awakened always hope to help others to wake themselves up, and the others always couldn't possibly care less. All they care about is self importance and flash and stuff like that and finding someone to follow. That is their nature.
But the awakened keep trying anyway, because that is *their* nature. So here's to you, Josh, on the eve of your birthday, for caring enough to give it a try.
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