Bodhi's Blogs

I have watched The Titanic once again and i was filled with insight with how people faced their impending deaths. The Titanic hosted the most powerful men on earth and a tiny accident put everything into perspective---no matter how rich and powerful you are, you are not going to live forever---death is the great equalizer. Amazing how people behave in face of impending deaths. Some held on to their possessions. Some killed others to save their own. Many panicked and died miserably. But there were also those who marched courageously to their deaths--playing violin, making a toast, sleeping to death, wearing their favorite attire, taking responsibility to sink with their dreams, embracing in love...Amazingly, our heroine who was supposed to commit suicide suddenly found love (di caprio) and lived in eternal time with her love. Her concern was not to survive but to love with her last remaining moments. Those who truly understand death and is intimate with it are those who truly live. And the most important ingredient in life is love. She survived with love eternal in her heart. Di caprio died but lived forever in the memory of the living. The truth of the matter is: Love is stronger than death. A second of pure love is weightier than a lifetime with no love. The greatest is Love.:smile:

In the past, it was religion who holds all the sway and power to influence the world. All the unanswered questions of existence in a pre-scientific world were answered by religion and the people by force, culture, or belief took all religious explanations as final explanations. The church said that the world was flat. And so it is. No matter what practical and reasonable explanation of Copernicus and Galileo can ever change. Indeed it was the dark ages and the world was shrouded by myth and darkness. Yet powerful changes turned the world and now we are living in a era where science reigns. All things that are not capable of being explained by science is relegated to superstition. In fact, morality, values, emotion, and individual subjectivity are considered as lesser forms of knowledge and are subsumed to oblivion. Yet now science is reaching the apex where real magic and mysticism exists. After searching into the tiniest atom and exploring into the vast universe, the scientific mind wracks in mysticism with the realization that the universe was indeed once an Atom! What a mystical experience that even Stephen Hawkings is bringing the hypothesis of a God back into the scientific discourse. We don't want to go back into the time of self righteous religion elicit blind faith from the people. We are in fact arriving at a historical vantage point of something totally novel and new---the Age of the Mystics and science and mysticism come together and integrate the most beautiful aspects of being human in this wonderful universe.:wink:

Do you know that sex is the most enjoyable exercise of all. While it gives you a whole body work out and burn out calories, the sweat cleanses the skin and makes it glow. For women it releases the hormone estrogen that makes up for beautiful hair and shiny skin. Prolonged and relaxed sex tones your muscles and relieves all types of pain for it releases happy hormones and pain reliever hormones as well. Endorphins gives you a natural high and at the same time cure depression. Prolonged kissing with someone you love can relieve headaches. Sex can even act as a natural antihistamine. Sex with love will strengthen your whole immune system and relieve stress. If you have sex with your heart center, you will feel the vibrant glow of love expanding. Sex with full spiritual involvement will make your eyes shine and give your whole being an uncanny glow! hahaha:tongue:

Give me a cause to live and die for,
But let it be a great cause,
Exceedingly great and momentous,
Something that would take all the fight in me,
Something that would draw from me,
Wracked and panting with weariness,
And in the very face of death, and disaster,…
A song of victory.
(anonymous) And although this all seems so easy in words, in truth even the Son of Man, cried tears of blood, saying, “Lord let this cup pass away from me…” For in truth, God’s Mission is the most terrifying work of all--- The Kingdom of God is such that to usher it, one must go not to the wide paths where it is easy but the narrow paths where there are thorns. It is such that one must risk honor and reputation, and slander, and bear being called a fool, a rebel, an atheist or whatever abominable names that the oppressor can conjure, just for the sake of the Kingdom. The Mission area is an area where even angels fear to tread, where one must walk where even the brave dare not go. The mission is where even St Peter, the Rock himself, would have escaped from when he left Rome only to be confronted on the road by Jesus Himself. St. Peter asked, “Qou Vadiz, Lord?” Jesus answered, “To Rome to be crucified once again.” And thus St. Peter went back to Rome, to face his own crucifixion in the tradition of the Master—for no servant is greater than the Master. Are we really ready to face the Missions? Or in other words, Are we really ready to face our own crucifixion? Honestly, for my self I am not sure. Yet history has given us so many shining examples of those who followed the Will of the Father and lived. :wacko: