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Showing posts with label Hare Krishna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hare Krishna. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Sunday, June 02, 2013

" Beings & Things: The Story of Love " (a short film of wisdom) Excellent Food For Thought--


Word to the wise. 

An excellent short film made by a Hare Krishna devotee, ostensibly to teach a lesson on the harmful element of "attraction" that is in all of us.  "One man's trash is another man's treasure."  He teaches us how we go through this life using people to meet our needs, to make us feel better, or to try to solve our problems.  I like the idea behind this vignette, but I feel like the filmmaker is assuming that we are all just simply materialist's with no spirituality injected into our day to day lives. I know for me at least, that isn't the case.  I TRY to be conscious of who & what I am using. That at least is a beginning. Though I don't consider myself to be a spiritual beginner, I'm also not a spiritual giant. Perhaps I'm somewhere in-between.

Watch this. Learn from it, perhaps. And give yourself a break. 
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, is THAT bad in your life. A problem shared with someone else is a problem split in half. That's what my spiritual teachers always tell me. And I've found it to be the truth.
Use love. ♥ m//r 


Saturday, July 07, 2012

SHELTER " Progressive Man " from 'Attaining the Supreme'

Progressive  Man by SHELTER:

 " So we went ahead and did it.  Come on everybody does.  And you can't hold me responsible, it's just part of love.  A mistake, a miscalculation. Confirming statistics in our nation. Hey, look me in the eye.  I wish you wouldn't cry. And paint this picture of me as some horrible guy.  Well the joy of sex and the freedom of fun. But the burden lies on you.  You're just a kid and crazy if you have it. But it's your choice what you do! I'd like to stay around and hang out, but I got other things to do. Try to keep in touch. I don't write that much. I'm sure you understand.  Progressive man!!  In the guise of love and fun and happiness. I've never seen so much distress.   
Well it's past midnight & I don't want to fight, we should really get to bed. Don't tell your mother, your sisters or your brothers--they'll all want me dead! Responsibility--it never beckoned me.  Hey, I'm only 21, I'm practically a bum. How did all this mess come from harmless fun? (Are you sure I'm the guilty one?) I know I should care, I know it's not fair, hey it's easier to run.  Loneliness made me say I love you, I think I lied to myself.  Don't call - I don't want to hear it all.  Forgive me if you can, progressive man!   Well I just did what they all do, and everyone else is doing.  I've heard stories of romance & I wanted to take a chance to taste what they're pursuing!!  Love stories told to me --in books, TV, & magazines.  So excuse me if you can, but try to understand.  I'm a victim too... Progressive man!! "  [I swear these are some of the greatest lyrics ever written in a hardcorepunk song!!]



Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Pope John Paul II & The Hare Krsna's...




....May 1st.  I wish I had $2300 for the trip to Rome some peeps are going on.  Sigh.....  The beatification of Blessed Pope John Paul II.  I can watch it on the internerd or the TV.  It's just neat to have something like this happen in my lifetime.  I vividly remember when he died and pretending to be so indifferent, with a twisted touch of stoicism!!!  I had fallen away from Catholicism at that time, although I would proudly tell you I was "spiritual!"  Whatever that means / meant!!!  I love this st00pid AA line, "religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell and spirituality is for people who've already been there and DON'T want to go back.  Dumb alcoholics think they've got the market cornered on spirituality.  Yes, thank God for AA's spirituality, opening the door, and my mind, to a higher power, a higher being, a higher purpose, and a higher calling.  But that's just a start.  I needed to nurture and grow my spirituality.   Which... is... just.....religion......gasp!!!  Besides, AA was founded by two Christian men, contains and co-op's several Christian (Catholic) prayers such as "The Lord's Prayer," "The Serenity Prayer," and "Instrument of Peace"  (the St. Francis prayer) on page 99 of the "Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions," an AA approved (official) book.   Most of the AA old-timers I know also belong to a church or claim some religious affiliation.  My friend Matt (a Jew I'm told) got very involved in Islam shortly after getting sober in 1999 or so, changed his name to Idris, wore traditional (as traditional as an Ann Arbor Jewish punk rock kid can get) Islamic garb to meetings, and moved to Saudi Arabia to teach English.  And secure a wife.  My friend Tarun Krsna-das, whom I met at the Fischer Mansion (a.k.a. the Hare Krsna temple) in Gross Point one soul searching Sunday, got clean, joined Narcotics Anonymous and then joined the Hare Krsna's.  He helped me a ton --came out to Ann Arbor to check out some AA meetings with me, kick the soccer ball around, chant Hare Krsna, and discuss Prabhupada's writings.  Tarun helped me to be a little less materialistic, as well as showing me how to eat vegetarian food without any traces of garlic, onions, and mushrooms.  Three foods in the mode of passion or ignorance, I can't remember which.  I miss Tarun.  After he went on a pilgrimage to Vrindavan I never saw him again.  St00pid hotmail deleted a couple hundred messages of mine, including one with his email addy in it.  And since Tarun Krsna-das is not the real name of a white trash, I.C.P. listening, workin' on car in the front lawn of your house, guy from Taylor, I've not been able to locate him since late 1999.