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Ok so what I wanted to say before I typed it out and then touched the wrong button on my laptop
and ditched it all was,
I think that the buddhists describe god and nothing in the same way.
Emptiness is the "true reality".
People have spent years meditating to try and understand emptiness.
Interestingly the math in string theory reveals the existance of eleven dimensions,
even if we can't see or understand them. I do believe in the purity of mathematical
formula. Ironically the buddhist dharma teaches of the eleven directions.
I'm not an expert on either, but I seem to remember someone telling me that the
number eleven stands for love.
No matter what religion you subscribe to, love always seems to play a part in it's
message. Love is the universal language, and except for those species that devour their mate
or eat their young all creation seems to have a love equation in there somewhere,
even if it is the very organized attraction of hydrogen and carbon molecules to oxygen.
It seems to me that we can't begin to understand what the creator of our universe
could possibly be, in terms of it's image, or even if it is possible to find an image of
said force at all, we now believe that all of existance is held together by something
called dark matter.
All prophets who have been under the influence of some kind of divine expression
must still interpret their message through a mind of their own under the circumstances
of their place in time. When a human is trying to decifer the truth through something
they conclude to be a religious intervention, one must be careful to determine their
intention, whether it be an intention of good-will or whether it is deriving itself
through an expression of ill-will. Simply put, just by over-use good and evil,
god and devil have been overstated to the point of having no true meaning anymore in
our language. that's why I choose to use the word "Creator". And to put the polar
intentions into a more generic term. Keeping your expressions of belief to a simpler
vein of thought can be more revealing than immersing yourself in the complications
of philisophical conjecture.
I like history for it's own interests, but when it comes to questions of the universal
oneness of mind, I'm more inclined to look in the present.
I think Dylan has been very succesful at providing a message for his era which has
reached a mass audience, in a way that philisophical and religious heirarchy does not.
Alot of the musicians that came out of the sixties seem to have been on to some kind of
divine inspiration, just listen to the lyrics of Neil Young and John Lennon.
I think the whole message of Peace and Love was stolen by the commercialists,
who turned it into "Free Love" or Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll.
Did anyone out there know that Jack Keroauc wrote a version of the Diamond Sutra
and was largely responsible for bringing buddhist thought to the western genre.
Angie-- very much alive.
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