I have a soap opera I'm addicted to, not a TV one but a Yahoo Groups one named "SufiMystic" with a wonderful group of virtual characters. Somewhere around 20 to 30 men and women are active posters with the list claiming a membership of 770, although I suspicion as is so often the case with any online group, many have joined, but many also have blown off participating or forgotten to return and unsubscribe, although we'll concede a goodly number of lurkers, or non-participatory audience members.
One of the brightest daily contributors among 3 or 4 the star leaders, and I believe a Sufi no less, is someone Name: Hafizullah, Location: Seattle, Age: 53, Marital Status: Married, Hobbies: Spiritual practice, Computers, Tropical fishes (sic), Cooking, Hiking/backpacking, Favorite Quote: The universe is not only weirder than we imagine, it is weirder than we "can" imagine.--J.B.S. Haldane. And with the above graphic, "Fire Starter" which appears in place of a personal photo with his Yahoo profile.
He made a short declarative sentence recently from which I'm still vibrating on several levels. First its about as funny as anything I've seen lately, and more importantly it hits on some truths regarding surrender and annihilation, 2 difficult mystical concepts, that never, well rarely, does anyone encounter in contemporary teaching.
About the extraordinary billions upon billions spent yearly by established religious institutions across the world, from Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, the majors, and so many many others to all of the astounding books and marketing of cd's, workshops, etc from the fused belief systems commonly known as New Age, not to mention the man hours, Hafizullah says this:
"Most "self-improvement" or "self-help" is just re-arranging the deck
chairs on the Titanic".
Yah!
1 comment:
Reading about your interests made me think of a blog you might like where I go a lot. It's written by a metaphysical philosopher named Les Visible.
http://lesvisible.blogspot.com/
It's pretty cool.
Erin Reynolds
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