Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:34:40 -0800
From: "Mark S. Weiss" <weissms-AT-concentric.net>
Subject: Re: The wheeeeeee...l and the energy


Senex R. Rupicapra wrote:
> 
> Kindly Old Unka Bart wrote:
> >  What I just said.  That I recognize that a path exists
> > that will lead me where I want to go, is sufficient for
> > me.  And while I have not taken the vow of a boddhisatva
> > (to reject liberation for myself until all sentient
> > beings have achieved it), I still find myself with a
> > flashlight in hand to aid the occassional searcher who
> > crosses my path, to find the way for herself...
> 
>         the prollem with religions (for me anyways) is
> that experience has taught me that aint nobody gonna
> walk the walk for me--no matter what the Christers say.
> the spiritual experience gotta be mine if it gonna do
> me any good.  nor can i do it for others.  hell, i can't
> even tell 'em how it be done.  if any aks me i can only
> say, "just do it.  dont try, just do it."  aint got a
> map; aint got a blueprint; aint got no wrote down
> directions; aint about to say "follow me."  y just do it.
> y gotta be willing to step off solid ground into the dark
> unknown.  without knowing where y'll land.  and try not to
> try too hard, 'cuz it's a loverly ride.  i dont worry about
> a end, for to have a end y gotta have a beginning and i
> remember not a beginning.
>         i had a aunt who had the power.  she really did.
> she lived to be very old, altho that wasnt her want.  she
> was always restless to go on, but she said it wouldnt
> happen before she was done here.  her power was to heal
> and comfort, not bodies, necessarily, but souls, always.
>         she left it for me 'cuz she had no daughters and
> none o her sons (that survived her) was so inclined.
> occasional i accept the gift, but it aint my sole path, yet.
> it may yet be, before i go on.  there be much peace there.
> it be the energy o the universe and all that is that y
> open the door and let in, but y gotta get past the fear. y
> gotta take that step out into the dark.  the onliest thing
> to fear is being afraid.  just do it.
>         thank y for yr time.
> 
>         old goat.
>        "Mistrust those in whom the
>         impulse to punish is strong."
>         --Friedrich Nietzsche
>         =D0=CF=11=E0=A1±



Much wisdom here, you old ungulate!  ;-)

Mark