Eyes dark, relentless, frightened of the sun

Subject:	Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains
Time:	9:42 pm.

I read the dhammapada recently. the dhammapada is the equivalent of the buddhist bible. unlike christ or messiahs buddha is neither a god or a divine incarnation or a prophet, but one who has reached the highest spiritual attainment. supreme enlightenment. he saw the good and the evil. he saw right and wrong. what we all must understand is that to be all good can be holy, but you can transcend even that. you can be completely disciplined but you must also except the world as it is. what buddha realized and taught is the duality between good and evil and all other like binary systems we see make up the same language. the language of the divine. everything isn't merely connected, but one. no really. think about it long and hard. finding inner peace means understanding everything around us, excepting it, finding our personal path, and then following it.

that was all paraphrasing, but i think you get the gist. read about this stuff.

next i want to start reading the tao te ching, the taoist writings. these are chinese and predate buddhist writings, they however have much in common. i just happened to read the te of piglet because i found it in the gallery attendant closet at work. it is the follow up to the tao of pooh. these books are a laymans type study of taoism through the characters of winnie the pooh. te of piglet was very captivating. i look forward to reading the tao of pooh.

christianity as a whole makes me sad. i mean even in the bible god says i am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. this does not encompass just good. he is all. all. he is the fabric of all time, including all of the charcters, all evil under heaven and earth we can think of, and of course love. he is the fabric and the nothing between all these things. you can't have any little part of this gone. it wouldn't work. even our mistakes make us grow as people. what i am coming to realize as well is that not only as people do we grow, but also as a people. the human race is just that. we are racing toward some unknown future. some of us stride while others meander along. but the meanderers have as much to offer as the paced leaders. we can each learn from each other and grow.

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