About the Music 6

In the Buddhist canon, the Abhidharma says that the only thing that can be said to be inherent is truth which is not conditioned.

On what should everyone in the world concentrate? There are as many answers as there are people. Joseph Campbell and I would have everyone concentrate on what truthfully heals you and makes you happy. Besides an experience of nature and other people, ambassadorship, medicine, literature, music, art, gardening etc... are possible foci.

Concerning relationships with other people, western traditionalists and some conservatives are well networked. They may meet every Sunday in Church, in the board room or at power lunches. Cultural creatives think they're alone and there's nowhere to meet. The Unitarian Universalist church is trying to be everything but they wind up alienating just about everyone.

Many Buddhists and Hindu's want to eliminate all desire for happiness. This is one of the problems of cultural creatives. But if the truth is that gardening makes you happy now, no amount of Buddhist philosophical gynmnastics about it ULTIMATELY not making you happy since it's not eternal is nonsense in my opinion.

What is eternal is this moment we have now which is all there ever is. If what makes you happy changes over time then change. It's not that difficult to do, in fact, its inevitable. Anyway, we don't need to be copying Jesus or Buddha, we just need to live up to our divine nature.

About the Music 4

If Sufi mystics can use the names Buddha, Jesus and Mohamed in the same sentence then I want to be a part of that. If that's and affront to your identity as a cowboy or a Christian then come back when you're ready to see the larger world just outside your hometown which is literally surrounding your tiny little cultural pocket.

For your information, half the internet is in Chinese. How many Chinese characters do you know? How many Chinese characters would you be willing to learn?

I don't need traditionalists to lose the identity they grew up with. It's fine really and can be fun too. To be fair, they're certainly not the only one's guilty of arrogance combined with being uniformed.

It's the self righteousness that has traditionally come with those identities which alienates the entire world that me and the rest of humanity could do without. We also would like traditionalists to join us in a larger space. If not now, then sometime in the future. Better sooner than later though.

They had to believe in that culture in order to integrate with it because that is where they found themselves. However, such an attitude has outlived it's usefulness. In saying these things, I feel like Salmon Rushdee writing the Satanic Verses.