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January 19, 2010 – 9:15 am
GOD!
Is it You that I thank for bringing good people and situations into my life?
If so, thank You!
Are You also the one I thank for making conditions difficult sometimes?
If so, thank You!
And are You also the one that created all the forms of suffering knowing full well that people will increase the amount of suffering that gets dished out through natural means thereby making the lives of billions constantly intolerable?
If so, thank You!
What did I just thank God for?
I love you God. I hate you God.
You exist God. You can’t exist, God.
But if you don’t exist who am I going to feel grateful to and who am I going to complain to? Maybe there is a path without God that works better for me. Or maybe I should just go and buy a God Doll at the mall.
Starving Children Video from Care.org
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong Video
Sentimental Over God – Email Sent
January 15, 2010 – 1:05 pm
God!
I remember the tent that we shared that night long ago.
I remember the sparkle that was in Your eyes.
When will You return?
Much Love,
Martin
p.s. I found Your email address in an old box of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches.
Empty Zyklon B poison gas canisters at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Goldstein to apologize to 720 people over 3 day period
January 13, 2010 – 2:19 am
It appears that Martin Goldstein has offended or increased the suffering of at least 720 people over the past year and 2 months.
The world, thank God, continues to exist owing to the deeds of lovingkindness performed by perfected souls who have had to work harder than usual to offset the mess that Goldstein has made on an interpersonal level.
Goldstein’s apology will include the following statements:
- I have rushed to judgment
- I have been reckless in speech
- I have spoken ill of others
- I have been insensitive
- I have not listened to constructive criticism
- I have been arrogant
- I have shunned beggars
- I have not honoured others
- I have wasted other people’s time
- I have lashed out at people
- I have used the names of certain organizations (such as Aish HaTorah, Chabad, 5WPR – Ronn Torossian) primarily for content generating purposes and only secondarily for the brainless things that they do
- I have farted loudly and at great length while generating lively bird sounds on an experimental sound device in the middle of a speech at a wedding reception
For whatever one of these things I have done to you and for any way in which I have increased your suffering, please accept my sincere apologies and understand that I recognize it as a problem for which I take complete responsibility and am in the process of rectifying at this very time.
The 720 apologies will be given orally and in person and all within a 3 day period. All logistical issues will be handled by a mystery spokes-animal.
Weird boxing is a major cause of apology binging.
Have you had enough suffering yet?
January 11, 2010 – 10:39 am
Eckhart Tolle – There is another way to live that does not create further suffering
The Buddha said:
January 11, 2010 – 10:01 am
Dhammapada: The Pairs
1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
3. “He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred.
4. “He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred.
5. Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
6. There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
7. Just as a storm throws down a weak tree, so does Mara overpower the man who lives for the pursuit of pleasures, who is uncontrolled in his senses, immoderate in eating, indolent, and dissipated.
8. Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky mountain, so Mara can never overpower the man who lives meditating on the impurities, who is controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, and filled with faith and earnest effort.
9. Whoever being depraved, devoid of self-control and truthfulness, should don the monk’s yellow robe, he surely is not worthy of the robe.
10. But whoever is purged of depravity, well-established in virtues and filled with self-control and truthfulness, he indeed is worthy of the yellow robe.
11. Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential.
12. Those who know the essential to be essential and the unessential to be unessential, dwelling in right thoughts, do arrive at the essential.
13. Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind.
14. Just as rain does not break through a well-thatched house, so passion never penetrates a well-developed mind.
15. The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; he grieves in both the worlds. He laments and is afflicted, recollecting his own impure deeds.
16. The doer of good rejoices here and hereafter; he rejoices in both the worlds. He rejoices and exults, recollecting his own pure deeds.
17. The evil-doer suffers here and hereafter; he suffers in both the worlds. The thought, “Evil have I done,” torments him, and he suffers even more when gone to realms of woe.
18. The doer of good delights here and hereafter; he delights in both the worlds. The thought, “Good have I done,” delights him, and he delights even more when gone to realms of bliss.
19. Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others — he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.
20. Little though he recites the sacred texts, but puts the Teaching into practice, forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion, with true wisdom and emancipated mind, clinging to nothing of this or any other world — he indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life.
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