“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, “Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?” And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, “Hey, don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.”
Bill Hicks
There is within each of us both God and Brahman because we are each both performer and spectator. God is created in our image and loves the quiet life, but we are created in the image of Brahman so we crave high drama and plenty of thrills. We are divided between our roles of drama-loving beholder and comfort-loving beheld; we wish to sleep peacefully but dream amusingly.
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The Thought of Honey
A man is walking in a dark, dangerous forest, filled with wild beasts.
The forest is surrounded by a vast net.
The man is afraid, he runs to escape from the beasts, he falls into a pitch black hole.
By a miracle, he is caught in some twisted roots.
He feels the hot breath of an enormous snake, its jaws wide open, lying at the bottom of the pit.
He is about to fall into these jaws.
On the edge of the hole, a huge elephant is about to crush him.
Black and white mice gnaw the roots from which the man is hanging.
Dangerous bees fly over the hole letting fall drops of honey…
hen the man holds out his finger—slowly, cautiously — he holds out his finger to catch the drops of honey.
Threatened with so many dangers, with hardly a breath between him and so many deaths, he still has not reached indifference.
The thought of honey holds him to life.
The Mahabharata, Jean-Claude Carrière
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