Thursday, April 22, 2004

I was thinking as I was driving home two things - one, that the bodhisatva and avatars throughout history always had a choice to leave the suffering behind and yet chose, sometimes most painfully, to endure and teach. I think throughout history how powerfully radical the ideas those who have changed the course of history have implemented, including an Abraham, or Abrahams, putting forward the idea of one god, and how crazy each seemed at the time. A Canadian told me a delightful story tonight of how, since they use butter spoons and little slivers of hash up north, they heat up spoons, put one on the sliver to pick it up, and then the other on top to essentially freebase the substance, his mom, upon visiting him in college, remarked, "What is it with you kids these days - your brother's knives were all burnt too." I also thought about the fact that the ultimate transformation of self comes from the recognition that it doesn't so much matter what happens with our human species even, as long as there is someway to try to make the meme survive, maybe sending off a sounding blast of hope and energy, just as the world we know expires. 3:06:54 AM