The sublimely intelligent have always found fault with my liking for the Buddha. I do not wonder at it. Even those who claim to be religious and highly spiritual are so thoroughly materialistic that they often don’t realize it themselves.
It is not that materialism is bad. No idealist has ever drunk a cup of scalding tea without getting burned from it. But that is not the point is it? We have some questions on life; the materialism has not yet been able to answer them. Matter seems elusive and not easy to define. We can’t just go by the dictates of our external senses and the instruments we have developed in the world to assist them.
Now The Buddha never denied the existence of the material world. He only said that it is transitory. Even consciousness is transitory, nothing is permanent, and everything flows. No one can dispute this fact. Even Marx had to say that the only thing that is changeless in the world is change.
Buddha is not liked for his wisdom alone. That of course was great. But people like him for his humanness. He never posed as God though even gods must have worshiped him. He was kindness personified. And yet there are persons who prefer to call him pessimistic. Well, if telling the truth was pessimism, he was a pessimist. He only told the world of four truths.
-The truth about suffering, the truth about the cause for it, the truth about its elimination and the truth about the path towards its elimination.
He was not a Buddhist. He was the illumined, kindly teaching others what lies behind. I firmly believe that he was the first real human being to walk on the face of the earth. The rest of us are called human because we belong to the species. Not that our species is bad, not it is worse than bad. It is self destructive.
This destructiveness is based on sectarian beliefs that would not take in any other beliefs. This is the worst form of religion that there is. Once religion is to be defended by violence then it is not worth having it. Fanatics usually think that the realm of spirit is reserved for certain members of their sect.
Really stop and reflect awhile, can any one cast anyone out from the world of the spirit? If they can, I would like to know how. If you want to connect with someone it is imperative that you have to share that level of life and experience with him. You can’t prove it logically every time. If you go by blind faith okay then the rest of the world is also competent to do that. He world can cal you a fool and you have to accept that.
Let me tell you everything is connected. The good as well as bad are relative. The human world is a world made out of superimpositions. This was realized by all those who have thought on the subject.
These others who sell their faith dearly, they are the commercial adventurers of the spiritual world. They don’t achieve anything other than transacting business supposedly for their own foolish ‘spiritual’ empires. I have often thought that they could do with a dose of real ‘spirits’ now and then. It might do good to them.
Oh, just to shake them free from the ancient filth that they carry around. They talk about all sorts of secrets and concealed teachings. If any one says anything simple enough for the common man to grasp they would start calling you names. The moment they become confused they totally lose their cool and start mouthing badness.
Don’t spare the Buddha anyway. He is a good target, wouldn’t hurt a fly.
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