One of my great concerns regarding God is this...

It'd be great to be God and to create everything and design everything just the way you want it to be...but the thing that disturbs me with the notion of such a great and omnipotent Being is that when it comes to the Human Religions on Earth, we're all expected to give God money. I would think that if you were smart enough to create the Universe, then you probably had the capacity to have a budget, and stick to it without running out of money every week and making people give you more every week. What does he do? Blow it all on buying new hats?

Mind you, I guess he would have an extensive wine cellar and he'd have to keep topping that up...but really, to God, that shouldn't be an issue...Just a snap of the fingers and there's 25 crates of 1953 Grange Hermitage.

I'd be happy to be God anytime...and I think the role would suit me.

I wonder if he smokes Chungwah cigarettes...If I was God, I would. They're great! (Dearb me, another example of subtle Product Endorsement in a Spiritual discussion).

 

 

 

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Map of Asia according to Americans

no i'm not a robot

When uploading to the blog, I guess because I do this frequently, I have to prove that I am not a robot.
Fortunately there is no test to prove that I am not a clone, or we'd be in a lot of trouble I guess, especially with the aggressive marketing of Wang-Fitzpatrick, The Human, in six-packs at Woolworth supermarkets now.

Van Morrison - Listen to the Lion (full version)

Chanting as Entrainment

I really like the Krishna chants not because they are religious at all, to me...but there is something very nice about the cadences that I find really charming...in the real sense of 'being charmed' and that's what I would understand as 'entrainment'...the warmth of sound that reverberates so beautifully within that my whole 'being' just feels quite good and optimistic.

I believe that we are all called into existence for this one time

We live this life for the time we live it, doing good, doing nothing, doing bad, etc., as we most best prefer. We are called into being by some voice that wakes us up from the usual nothingness of universe, and we do live here and we do belong here for this time, and at the end of our time, we don't go anywhere else, we just go into the usual nothingness of universe; but before that natural consequence of being by nature mortal, sometimes we see or hear the face or voice that called us into being. What the job of life is, well, no one knows...because it isn't a job at all...but I do know that face, and I do know that voice, and I do love the music of being, and I do know the meaning of being.

 

 

Hare Krishna - Jagjit Singh Bhajan Concert/Just lovely