Meditation in Conversation

Published on by Jim Category: Communication and Relationships

It deeply saddens me to see people who have a habit of harming himself or herself or limiting the quality of their life experience.  This is only a product of habitual thoughts and not something we need to stay trapped in for the rest of our lives.

Somewhere along the way, I recognized that I could change my behavior or habitual reactions to what life was offering me.  For instance, I noticed that there were certain words or combination of words that if somebody said I had a habitual reaction of getting upset, offended or angry.  At first, it was hard for me to acknowledge it was MY habitual mental/emotional reaction causing the negative inner experience and that it was not the fault of the person who spoke the words.  Nevertheless, when I finally accepted that fact and took responsibility for my reactions, I started to find peace.  With the awareness and skill that gave me peace, I was then able to choose positive reactions to the same stimuli or words so that I could have a positive experience.

For instance, let us say that a child has drilled into them that when his parents, family or teachers said the word “bad,” as in “you were a bad boy” they were supposed to feel, well, bad.  At first, that bad feeling might have come from spanking, which causes physical pain and that pain became associated in the mind/brain with the word “bad”.  Therefore, from then on when somebody tells them they are being a “bad” person, they have a habit of reacting by contracting, fearfully anticipating pain.  The reaction of contraction itself was painful, or at least an uncomfortable experience.  Therefore, we have a negative emotional reaction to the word “bad”; people can observe that and use the habitual reaction to control behavior.  Hence, perfect programming…people can be conditioned to be controlled by mere words.

When I came to realization of this, I also realized that I could RE-program myself to have different reactions to those same words or stimuli.  Since I had realized that what I really wanted was to experience positive things like happiness, joy, love, peace and freedom, I could reprogram myself to respond to what people said to me in a way that enabled me to have those positive experiences.

I also have realized that human relationships make up the vast majority of experiences and relationships are primarily about communications with other people.  Just as my parents had communicated to me the “meaning” or the intended response of the word “bad,” so, too, there were an almost infinite number of words or behaviors that I was supposed to respond to in the usually prescribed manner.  But a lot of these usually prescribed reactions produced for me negative experience that I did not want to have.  So I developed a practice of reprogramming myself to have the type of reactions I wanted to have and not the type of reactions that others expected from me.

I call this practice Meditation in Conversation. Meditation is the practice of first learning to relax and not react around various stimuli, including thoughts. Second, meditation is the practice of positive response to those same stimuli, including thoughts. So Meditation in Conversation is the practice of learning to relax and not react around the stimuli of words or in conversation and second, it is the practice of responding with positive emotional experiences.

Meditation is a state of focused relaxation. Meditation in Conversation is the intentional effort to relax around the stimulation of words. When I am relaxed I find that I no longer feet a ‘need’ to react to what was being said. I become more tolerant and can allow people to express themselves even if it was only venting their frustrations.

Meditation in Conversation is developing the skill of respecting and loving our selves first; learning how NOT to abuse our selves when someone says something to us. Meditation in Conversation is about developing the skills of honesty and intimacy. Honesty only happens if we are not afraid of OUR response to what people say to us. When we no longer fear ourselves and our reactions to what people say to us, then we will have the courage to be honest both with ourselves and with those around us.

The skills that the practice of Meditation in Conversation gives me enable me to choose the quality of my life experience instead of being a victim of whatever was said or whatever life is offering me. I have become empowered to have the quality of life that I have always wanted. I have all the happiness, joy, love, peace and freedom that I want, regardless of and sometimes in spite of what life is offering me.

I developed this aphorism for myself to remind me of the true power that I always have: words cannot hurt me, only my reactions to words can do me harm. With this reminder I took my power back from all those who would either intentionally or unintentionally stimulate my habit of abusing myself emotionally around words.

I also developed a simple method to remind myself of how to get back to a place of inner peace and clarity how to go further, how to create a positive experience whenever my programmed habits caused a negative reaction to what life was offering. This method I call the Four S’s, which are Simplicity, Softness, Smile and Stillness.

Simplify: Start by reminding yourself of the simple truth of the aphorism that nothing anyone says can harm you, only your reactions can do you harm. Remember to be in the simple truth of the Present Moment and that thoughts of past and future are not real, they are only memories and imagination. Simplify your intention by recognizing that before you can be of service to other you must first be of service to yourself; before you can love another you must be able to love yourself—Self Love First. I have learned that if I am uptight, I am not being loving to myself so I cannot love another or be of service to them. NOW is the time to relax and let go, not tomorrow or when you have the time to meditate. NOW is all you will ever have so start NOW to let go.

Soften: Become aware of the tension in your body, mind and heart. To soften the body take deep, whole breaths and allow yourself to relax with each out breath, feeling the tension flow out of your body with the breath. Become aware of the tension in your face, head, neck, shoulders, back, arms, stomach, legs and so forth. With each out breath feel the body relaxing and letting go. To soften the mind, recognize that you really cannot KNOW anything and that whenever you know something you are creating hardness in your mind which manifests in the body. To soften the heart recognize that nothing that ever has happened or could happen on this puny speck of dust in the universe that we call Earth could ever be important; that all is meaningless and all importance is vanity and let it go. In this process you feel the softening of your entire body, mind and heart.

Smile: When you smile you are shining your light. Light enables you to see clearly what is really going on. Research has shown that smiling has multiple benefits: it relieves stress, boosts your immune system, changes your mood and helps you stay positive. Smiling is the practice of appreciation which leads to joy and eventually to love. We are naturally drawn to the experience of lightheartedness or just lightening up. Use the word Smile to remind yourself of this so that you can go back to this enlightened state of being.

Whatever is happening in this moment is your moment; this is your life so you might as well enjoy it. The more you can smile on your life’s moments, the more your life is filled with the light of appreciations, joy and love.

Our deepest motive in life is to appreciate, enjoy and love life. Awareness is to remember that nothing is more important than the quality and richness of joy and love. If we remember this, then we will remember to enjoy what life is offering us. Nothing is more important than the sense of appreciation, joy and love.
I have coined a term for this sense of appreciation. I call it “Yesness”. We want to experience the light so we lighten up, we become light hearted. To lighten up is to feel a sense of YESness about life and what we are experiencing. To smile is to recognize where we are habitually saying no, to release that negativity and say YES. When we are up tight, thinking and saying NO becomes a habit. By relaxing, thinking and feeling Yes, we begin to find the quality of life that we are looking for.

Stillness: There is a time for motion or effort and there is a time for stillness or effortlessness. No effort, no intentions, no will, no plans, no goals, just relaxing and being. With stillness comes clarity that allows us to perceive the truth that will set us free from all negativity. With stillness we can see through the illusions that create fear and negativity. It is in the peace and stillness that comes after letting go that gives us the clarity to perceive the perfect truth that will set us perfectly free. With stillness we can see the light of joy that will guide us on our next step in our life. When joy is your guiding light, then joy will always be your companion.

Stillness and rest is necessary for the human instrument to live. Without a balance of motion and stillness the quality of life will be lost.

Stillness produces clarity that in turn enables us to see the truth that sets us free to enjoy and love all that life has to offer. Stillness is the peace that enables us to relax into appreciation, joy and love.

Confidence comes in stillness. As you cultivate the skill of relaxing and not reacting to the stimuli that life is offering you gain confidence in your ability to deal with what life is offering. Stillness will enable you to not beat yourself up emotionally with a strong reaction around life’s challenges.

The skills that Meditation in Conservation gives you will enable you to be fully with ALL that life is offering and to be a full participant in society. Imagine being in a relationship where the other comes home after a hard day at work where they have been challenged by their boss and the traffic coming home was worse than usual. The first thing they do when they get into the house is to ‘vent’ from their day and start bitching or just complaining about whatever it is that first sets them off. Usually you would have gotten defensive or had some other negative reaction to their unhealthy or negative venting. But now, with the skills you have developed from Meditation in Conversation you catch yourself in your own reactions and you relax, let go, smile and just be still. You allow the venting because you can see that it can do you no harm and that the other needs to release all the pent up tension they have developed throughout the day. You might even encourage them to vent. And, after they have fully vented, you smile and give them an encouraging hug, telling them you love them.

The cycle has been broken. No longer are you reactive to what people say to you. Now you have the capacity to let go of your negative reactions and just allow what needs to be. Then you can come forth in life and offer your light of appreciation, joy and love. Life has become much more fulfilled and you are at peace with a beautiful and perfect world.

I would suggest that you open yourself up to ANY opportunity to practice this Meditation in Conversation. That would mean with family, friends, loved one, but also with those with whom you disagree or have hard feelings toward. I would go to extremist organizations and listen to their ranting and raving while practicing meditating and watching my responses. My next step was to go to meetings where I could engage with others and watch my reactions to their reactions of me (judgments, criticism and even rejection).

I recognized that we first have to get to equanimity for the clarity that it offers, and then our natural compassion for others will come out. The practice of Meditation in Conversation brings me to a place of inner peace and equanimity that I was looking for. I am sure that it will do the same for you.

 

Modern Scriptures

Published on by Jim Category: Religion

We have re-written the scriptures to show the modern understanding beyond gender and many of the other limitations of ancient people.  If you go into any bookstore today rarely will you see a modern spiritual book with these biases.  YOU just do not see them as scriptures yet.  Wait a few hundred years and that might change.

Nothing changes over night except our minds.  Quit thinking of those ancient books as holy texts and “poof” they are gone.  Change your ways of thinking about the recent “holy texts” and “poof” they are rewritten to show the non-biased perspective.

You have all the power.  Change starts with you and moves outwards.

I Killed Myself

Published on by Jim Category: Nonduality

Dead, gone and forgotten.  My “self” is dead. I no longer have to defend it. I no longer have to worry if it is going to heaven or hell or what karma or sin it has or if it will reincarnate into a bat.  It is dead; I killed it.

Boy, what a difference a dead self makes.  Of course, it does not mean that there is not worry for this piece of carcass known as Jim, but the carcass is just a tool, a vehicle, a toy to be played with until it is worn out then thrown away.  “I” do not have to worry about it anymore because “I” am dead.
You might ask, “How did you kill yourself if you are still here?”  Well, “I” am not here, the body is.  “I” am dead.  At least the part of Jim that thinks of himself as a body or a separate being with beginning and end.

I killed myself by looking for the self.  Eventually I saw that the self is just a thought, an electro-magnetic impulse traveling around the brain/body mechanism.  When I fully let go of focusing on anything, particularly the sensations in the body/brain, then the instrument relaxed, let go and stop creating any more impulses, including the impulse known as ‘self’.

Of course, acknowledging that this happened was another impulse which brought back the original impulse of self.  HOWEVER, the power of the idea or thought known as “self” is broken and has diminished ever since.

It is wonderful being free from the grip my ‘self’ had on me.  No longer is there worry about ‘my’ career.  Karma and sin have no meaning.  Since “I” am no longer important then ‘my’ world is no longer important.  Hell, I can now see that nothing in the manifested universe is important so why worry about anything.  It is all here just for the fun of it.  All is meaningless (unless I want to play with meaning and create meaning for it).  All is vanity.

Even writing this is vanity, but it is also a lot of fun.
Now I am free to enjoy and love ALL that life has to offer.
Yet, habits are hard to die and the habit of thinking about my ‘self’ is strong.  Sometimes there is forgetting that the self is not real and I go back to worrying about it.  Usually I wake back up by myself but sometimes it take a true friend, one who really cares about me, to stun me back awake by confronting my silly idea that I am real or important or that I matter or that anything I could ever do mattered or that anything anyone could do or has ever done could really matter.

Sometimes a go a long time before I wake back up.  In those times, I wish I had more friends who really cared about me enough to jolt me back awake.  So I have dedicated my life (Oops, there I go again, like it is ‘my’ life in the first place, silly me) to waking up others so that they can wake me up when I fall asleep, AND, so they can fully enjoy and love ALL that life has to offer.

Wait, OTHERS?  There I go again, thinking there are ‘others’ in the universe.  How can that be if “I” have no beginning or end, I am infinite and all-inclusive.  In infinity, there is no ‘other’ so there are no others.  Ah, then I am not waking up ‘others’ so they can fully enjoy and love ALL that life has to offer; I am waking the REST of me up to fully enjoy and love ALL that life has to offer.

Phew, that was a lot of work.  Ah, but it is worth it.  What greater gift can I give to myself (and all there other ‘selves’ of me out there) that to wake up to enjoy this perfect world and universe?

Does anybody want to join me?

Religion & Believing

Published on by Jim Category: Jesus, Religion

The value of religion is to keep the gullible masses in check. Unfortunately the apposing forces of domination, the trouble makers like Jesus or myself have not been doing our job in stimulating the masses to question the authority of the religions or wake them up from their unconscious gullibility.

Religions are not like educational systems that have a program in which if you follow it you will eventually graduate from the system. Instead religions want to keep you bond to them indefinitely: perpetual bondage.

As there are some dogs that seem too stupid to understand the dangers of life in a city where there are cars on the road, there are people who are too stupid to understand the dangers of life in a world where there are unscrupulous people who will injury or harm them. Many of those unscrupulous people work in churches and states, religion and government, but they are not always as unscrupulous as some other people who could do greater harm.

BUT, this is how nature works to get rid of stupid people and stupid creatures; it allows them to get run over by cars. Hence, because of religions and governments we have a world over populated by stupid people who are destroying their own planet.

Why People Believe

People choose to believe something because they do not have actual knowledge of something but the THOUGHT of that something is emotionally attractive. They want that which they believe to be true.

For instance, they believe that an airplane they are about to fly on is going to function appropriately and that they pilot is competent. They don’t know this to be a fact but want it to be true. The belief calms their mind somewhat.

The same thing happens in religious beliefs. A religious believer have some beliefs that are creating discomfort for them so they choose other beliefs to give them comfort from the first set of belief.

If they would just question their original assumptions till they can see that those are not real then they would have no need to lie to themselves about the other beliefs.

The Value of Sloth & Apathy

Published on by Jim Category: Christ, Health, Jesus, Religion

When I think of sloth I am reminded of something that Jesus said, “Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy burdened and I shall give you rest” (Matt 11:29). Then I think about the “Protestant Work Ethic and how Protestant Christianity teaches people to work harder and be slaves who are “good servants to their masters” (Paul’s language). Christians are taught to believe, obey and submit to the ruling classes. Yet this is NOT what Jesus taught or did…it was NOT Jesus’ way or truth.
Sloth is called one of the Seven Deadly Sins and is defined at disinclination toward work or effort. I don’t remember any stories of Jesus or Siddhartha (Buddha) working really hard.

If you were an owner of slaves would you want somebody like Jesus to hang around your slaves or would you rather have somebody like Paul who would teach them to be good servants to their masters? It does not take a genius to see that Paul and his minions (Christians) would be more valuable to the slave owners than Jesus and other Christs.

Apathy is defined as a lack of feeling, emotion, interest or concern. It can also be seen and detachment, being above the world, contentment, equanimity, indifference and peace.
If people want peace then they have to let go of caring, quit storing your treasures here on earth where anything can attack them. This means not caring even out your “self”, your body, mind and/or soul.
This does not mean that you NEVER care or have emotion, feeling, interest or concern, only that when you are tired and need rest that you stop caring while you rest. This is like breathing in and breathing out, both are necessary for you to be healthy, both have their time.

My Contention with Christianity

Published on by Jim Category: Christ, Christian, Religion

I like Jesus. I have been and am inspired by Jesus. As a young man when I came to my midlife crisis I was inspired by Jesus to seek a way out of my feelings of being trapped in a meaningless world. I realized I wanted what Jesus had. I did not know what that was at the time, I just knew that I wanted whatever it was that he had had.

I also knew from previous experience that I could not go to Christians for help in this regard. I say this because my experience of Christians and Christianity was perfectly reflected by Gandhi when he said, “I like your Christ but I don’t care for your Christians; for your Christians are so unlike their Christ.”

Here is the crux, Christians don’t follow Jesus’ way, truth or life, they follow the apostles, particularly Paul. In the bible Paul admits that when he started out his mission was to turn people away from Jesus’ way and, as he puts it, bring that back to sound doctrine.

I sought to find what Jesus found and found it. I did not follow the Christian way; I pretty much followed Jesus’ way. When I went to share this with the Christians all I got was resistance and rejection. As I looked into why Christians resisted my way (and Jesus’ way) I found several particular points that Christianity teaches AGAINST Jesus’ way.

First, Jesus did not think of himself as a sinner and taught that neither should we (Matt 5:48, “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.”) Being perfect means to be whole and complete, lacking nothing, without flaw. Perfection, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. If we actually try to do what the bible tells us then we will NOT take of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; in other words, we will not think we know what is good and what is evil, what is righteous and what is sinful. Or, to put it as Jesus did, we would be innocent as children to enter the kingdom of heaven. I also feel he was saying the same thing when he said, “Great is the God that reveals the truth unto babes but hides it from the wise and learned one (Mt 11:25).” The learned ones are those who think they know what is righteous and what is sinful.

The one who called himself the Apostle Paul taught that “all have sinned.” Christians who follow Paul’s faithless doctrine think that no one can perfect as Jesus was perfect. This is NOT true. Paul’s statement is obviously false (to me) for if ALL have sinned then that all must include Jesus. Yet most, if not all Christians than confess that Jesus was without sin. Therefore that proves that ALL have not sinned. But because Christians have been taught to treasure scriptures as inerrant they get trapped in a bind when shown that this is not true, so they cannot talk about it further.

Jesus started his ministry by telling people to “repent” or completely change their ways of thinking. It is in our ways of thinking that effects the quality of our life experience. If we think like Jesus thought and how he suggested we think than we can experience that Kingdom of Heaven that is AT HAND, here, now, today.

I will try to point out more examples of the differences between Jesus’ way and the apostles way (Christian way) in the future.

10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy

Published on by Jim Category: Health, Health Mental

by Jen Angel
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=3022#2

In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have studied people all over the world to find out how things like money, attitude, culture, memory, health, altruism, and our day-to-day habits affect our well-being. The emerging field of positive psychology is bursting with new findings that suggest your actions can have a significant effect on your happiness and satisfaction with life. Here are 10 scientifically proven strategies for getting happy.

1) Savor Everyday Moments

Pause now and then to smell a rose or watch children at play. Study participants who took time to “savor” ordinary events that they normally hurried through, or to think back on pleasant moments from their day, “showed significant increases in happiness and reductions in depression,” says psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky.

2) Avoid Comparisons

While keeping up with the Joneses is part of American culture, comparing ourselves with others can be damaging to happiness and self-esteem. Instead of comparing ourselves to others, focusing on our own personal achievement leads to greater satisfaction, according to Lyubomirsky.

3) Put Money Low on the List

People who put money high on their priority list are more at risk for depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem, according to researchers Tim Kasser and Richard Ryan. Their findings hold true across nations and cultures. “The more we seek satisfactions in material goods, the less we find them there,” Ryan says. “The satisfaction has a short half-life—it’s very fleeting.” Money-seekers also score lower on tests of vitality and self-actualization.

4) Have Meaningful Goals

“People who strive for something significant, whether it’s learning a new craft or raising moral children, are far happier than those who don’t have strong dreams or aspirations,” say Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener. “As humans, we actually require a sense of meaning to thrive.” Harvard’s resident happiness professor, Tal Ben-Shahar, agrees, “Happiness lies at the intersection between pleasure and meaning. Whether at work or at home, the goal is to engage in activities that are both personally significant and enjoyable.”

5) Take Initiative at Work

How happy you are at work depends in part on how much initiative you take. Researcher Amy Wrzesniewski says that when we express creativity, help others, suggest improvements, or do additional tasks on the job, we make our work more rewarding and feel more in control.

6) Make Friends, Treasure Family

Happier people tend to have good families, friends, and supportive relationships, say Diener and Biswas-Diener. But it’s not enough to be the life of the party if you’re surrounded by shallow acquaintances. “We don’t just need relationships, we need close ones” that involve understanding and caring.

7) Smile Even When You Don’t Feel Like It

It sounds simple, but it works. “Happy people…see possibilities, opportunities, and success. When they think of the future, they are optimistic, and when they review the past, they tend to savor the high points,” say Diener and Biswas-Diener. Even if you weren’t born looking at the glass as half-full, with practice, a positive outlook can become a habit.

8) Say Thank You Like You Mean It

People who keep gratitude journals on a weekly basis are healthier, more optimistic, and more likely to make progress toward achieving personal goals, according to author Robert Emmons. Research by Martin Seligman, founder of positive psychology, revealed that people who write “gratitude letters” to someone who made a difference in their lives score higher on happiness, and lower on depression—and the effect lasts for weeks.

9) Get Out and Exercise

A Duke University study shows that exercise may be just as effective as drugs in treating depression, without all the side effects and expense. Other research shows that in addition to health benefits, regular exercise offers a sense of accomplishment and opportunity for social interaction, releases feel-good endorphins, and boosts self-esteem.

10) Give It Away, Give It Away Now!

Make altruism and giving part of your life, and be purposeful about it. Researcher Stephen Post says helping a neighbor, volunteering, or donating goods and services results in a “helper’s high,” and you get more health benefits than you would from exercise or quitting smoking. Listening to a friend, passing on your skills, celebrating others’ successes, and forgiveness also contribute to happiness, he says. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn found that those who spend money on others reported much greater happiness than those who spend it on themselves.

Love Yourself First

Published on by Jim Category: Jesus, Love and Fear

“The measure you give is the measure you shall receive.” Jesus

If you love yourself then you are loved.If the whole world loves you but you do not love yourself then you will not know love.If the whole world hates you but you love yourself then you will know love.

It does not matter whether or not God loves you or Jesus loves you or anybody loves you, if YOU do not love yourself then you will not be loved.If you love yourself then you will have the experience of love.

Do we want to love ourselves all the time?No, not really.We might think we want to be loved all the time, we might think we want to be accepted unconditionally no matter what we do, but the reality is we do not, for we use the idea of none acceptance to motivate ourselves to do something.And if we do not ‘do something’ then we will not even take care of ourselves, our bodies and our world.So this loving yourself will sometimes be conditional and sometimes it will be unconditional.

In order for our love to be perfect it must embrace the all, accept all reality.That means we must accept, enjoy and even love conditional love, which is part of the all.There is a time to accept and a time to not accept.There is a time to love and a time to hate.Without both there cannot be embracing of the all.

Impending Doom

Published on by Jim Category: Health Mental

I wonder if people who are about to die have some sense of impending doom, some ‘knowingness’ that they are about to die.  Just before my father died of a massive heart attack he called my mother, whom he had not talked to in almost twenty years, to wish her a happy birthday, which was the next day.  Within an hour of that phone call my father was dead.  He also called both of my sisters but failed to call either myself or my brother. 

But I still wonder, did he somehow ‘know’ or sense that he was going to die.  He had had some tests done on his heart only the week before and was to get back the result the following Monday. 

I wonder this because today I am feeling that feeling of impending doom.  I feel I am going to die or something like that.  No, I would have to say that I really feel I am going to die.  Now, I have had this feeling many times before and, of course, I did not die.  But this time seems to feel different; I do not feel any resistance to the idea of my immediate demise.  In the past there was some resistance to the thought of my immediate death, but today I actually feel that I would welcome it.

Maybe this is because I am depressed, which I could make an argument for, or maybe it is because  I am more ‘mature’ than I was before and recognize this ‘sense’ as only a thought.  Yea, maybe I am just experiencing some depression.  I feel ‘trapped’, which, of course, is only a product of my ways of thinking, but I still feel that way.  I am trapped in a sense of I do not know what I want, or if I know what I want I only want it bad enough for a short time to do something about it.  My deeper desires I don’t know how to satisfy or if I have an idea on how to do that I don’t have the stamina or drive to actually work on the ‘how to’ part of it.  Silly me…

So I am probably depressed and would welcome a quick and painful death.  Opps, did I say ‘painful’ death?  I did…maybe because I like drama.

I have found that there is some truth in this “The Secret” stuff that says we manifest what we focus our minds on.  Could I be manifesting my impending doom just by thinking about it?  I don’t know, but because I am a scientist of the spirit, I am writing this down just in case something happens to me today and then you will know that people do ‘sense’ their impending doom. 

And if I am wrong, I will see you tomorrow…and part of me is kind of hoping that I am wrong so I guess I really do not want die that much after all.

 

The Virtue of Laziness

Published on by Jim Category: Christian, Government & Politics, Health, Jesus

Jesus was lazy and so was the Buddha.Both of them could read and presumable write but neither of them wrote anything down; probably because they were lazy.They were too lazy to be industrious and they did not ‘create’ anything.They just enjoyed talking and that is all they really did.They had no home to support or take care of.They had no bank account.Their possessions were only what they could carry.They were beggars.

It is true that they lived in climates that did not require much in the way of protection from the elements.In my world,America, I find that the elements, including society and its governments, do not allow me to live the way that Jesus or the Buddha lived.

But I am just as lazy.

I have short passions that motivate me to get up off my lazy butt and do something, but it only lasts for a short time.Then the drive falls away.

I love to talk to people, and I think I have something to offer them.ButAmericadoes not have ‘public market places’ the way they had in Jesus’ or the Buddha’s time.Americahas become a nation isolated from its self.People here spend all their time at home or at works and very little in public places.

Today, to reach out to people you ‘have to’ write something, and I am really too lazy to write anything, except short little topics like this.

We Buddhas and Christs have found a peace with the world and this peace kills our productivity.Being not productive we have no desire to hurt any one or anything; we have no inner “dis-ease”.With this peace there is no busyness or business in our world.No business, no work.We Buddhas and Christs tend to live off the charity of others; we beg for our food.

Lazy people tend to be healthier for they do not stress themselves out by working so hard.We just sit around and enjoy what life offers.I will walk or hike ten miles in a day just for the joy of it, but I will not walk a mile to look for work.

We Buddhas and Christs are so lazy we do not create wars.We Buddhas and Christs are so lazy we have a very low impact on the environment.Yet we tend to have a tremendous impact on the human environment.About half of the planets population plays lip service to Buddhas or Christs, but that is about all they do in regard to Buddhas and Christs.

I have too many possessions.I live in a small motor home that I have to maintain and support, and in this day of high fuel prices that takes a lot of work.I have this computer which I use to communicate with people. But it is probably time to get up off my lazy or cowardly ass and go out and talk to people, wherever I can find them.I know I have something to offer, I just find it hard to find people to offer it to.

So in conclusion, lazy people do not hurt anybody and they have a low impact on the environment.How much better would the world be if everybody was at least a little bit lazier?