EXCERPTS 13, 14 & 15 FROM HOW TO REAR A CHILD BY TAOSHOBUDDHA

TAOSHOBUDDHA EXPLAINS THE APPEARANCE OF VIRGIN MARY AMIDST ARMINIAN SYRI...

JOKES ON MARRIAGE

 

Marriage is a three-ringed circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffer-ring.

Marriage may make the world go round, but so does a punch in the nose.

Saving a marriage from divorce: the only way is not to show up for the wedding.

 

The teacher asked the child in the class: 'What is the cause of divorce?' The child responded, 'The only cause of divorce is marriage.'

A woman is God’s second mistake – man is the first obviously – and two wrongs together do not make a right.

A woman is entitled to life, liberty, and pursuit of man.

Listen…! Somebody asked Socrates, ‘Do you believe, as some poets do, that a man is incomplete until he is married?’

He said, ‘Yes, a man is incomplete until he is married, then he is finished.’

A young man asked Socrates if he should get married, and Socrates replied, ‘By all means, young man, get married. If you find a good wife, you will be happy; if you find a poor one, you will be a philosopher.’

And he was saying that out of his own experience. So, if you want to get married, do it by all means – I will not prevent you. I never prevent people from making mistakes, because that is the only way they learn. It needs tremendous intelligence to learn from other people’s mistakes – it is very rare. Even if you can learn from your own mistakes, that is something very great! People are so foolish that they go on making the same mistake again and again. So do it by all means, just remain a little aware.

 A circus train had derailed and the car containing the lions had broken open and ten of the animals had escaped. The sheriff quickly organized a posse to track them down. As the men were getting ready to ride off in several directions, he said, ‘Men, it is a bit chilly tonight so before we go, let us go across the street to the tavern and I will stand everybody a few drinks.’

They all gathered at the bar and ordered whisky, except for one man.

‘Why aren’t you drinking?’ the sheriff asked. ‘Don’t you want to get warmed up before we start out?’

 ‘I want to stay warm all right,’ the man said, ‘but I sure don’t want any whisky before I start hunting a bunch of lions because whisky would give me too much courage!’

So just remain a little sober – too much courage can be dangerous!

I have herd once a pot of black coffee fell desperately in love with a bottle of milk. After convincing her that he was a really great guy, they finally got married. Some time passed and he began to dream about having children, inventing such names as ‘White Nescafe’, ‘Cafe Russe’, etcetera. As he told her of his longings, she immediately turned away, saying, ‘No… no, darling.’ He did not see her point, but as he loved her he decided to wait.

After some time he again tried, but once again she did not want to give it any juice. Knowing that he would be cooling down soon, he tried a third time.

‘Why not, my love, why not?’ he asked.

‘Well, ahem…’ she uttered, ‘well… you know… dear… I am sterilized!’

But I do not think you will be able to understand all these jokes. If you can understand all these jokes you will not get married at all! But even people who do not understand jokes have to laugh here, otherwise they look very stupid – very English!

 

Process of Transformation

 

Indeed transformation is possible only if you are only listening and not interpreting, listening and not making judgments, listening and not saying, ‘Yes, this is right; no, this is not right....”

You do not have to say anything. That is not the point of the whole process of transformation. The point is that you can be just a listener without any judgment. That prepares you for your meditation. In the moments of such listening the energy of the master works in you. My effort here is to take away everything that hinders your dignity to grow to its ultimate heights.
I want you to be freed from all these gods, religions and all these scriptures that have yoked you into a perennial slavery. I want you to live in a silent and peaceful freedom of being, in tune with existence, overflowing joy and blissfulness; gratitude and ecstasy.

 There is no question of worship at all and there is no question of any gods’ incarnation. In the first place the god does not exist himself. He exists only as totality and godliness. Totality is manifest and surrounds you. Only your eyes have become so opaque that you cannot envision. How can he have incarnations? It is just so obviously foolish. Hindus had ten incarnations before Mahavira. Their scriptures before Mahavira mention only ten incarnations, because of the ten fingers – to count more than that was a difficult job ten. And Hinduism is the most ancient religion.

Religion came first and mathematics came centuries later, so ten was the only ultimate number. So the number of Hindu Incarnations stuck at ten. One thing interesting has God lost interest in humanity that after ten there has been no more incarnation. What is the criterion for incarnation? Krishna says whenever there is decline of righteousness he incarnates again and again. What are the guidelines for the decline of righteousness and who is there to decide?

Sutras of Awareness

Taoshobuddha Meditations is not an organization religious, cultural, or charitable. It is not a school or a university either. It is the way to transformation. You are not here to learn any knowledge. You have already spent precious years of life learning all that has become unnecessary burden for your inward journey.

 

You are unburdened here of all that garbage that you have accumulated as your treasure so that your inward journey may begin. You are being transformed, and awakened. All these sutras are meant only to wake you up from your unconscious slumber. It is an effort to make you aware of that – which is vibrating continuously, moving around in thousands of things – to make it absolutely here is the whole purpose of all these Sutras of Awareness.

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