We Live In A Political World

We live, simultaneously, in two different worlds. Ultimately, we live in the World of Nature, a world that we did not create and the world upon which all life depends. Most immediately, we inhabit a "human world" that we create ourselves. Because our human world is the result of our own choices and actions, we can say, quite properly, that we live, most immediately, in a “political world.” In this blog, I hope to explore the interaction of these two worlds that we call home.

Friday, June 22, 2012

#173 / One With Everything

The Dalai Lama went into a pizza shop.
"What can I get you," the attendant asked?
"Well," said the Dalai Lama,
"Can you make me one with everything?"

This stupid joke was actually told to the Dalai Lama himself, by an Australian news reader. You can see it on YouTube.

It seems clear to me that we truly are "one with everything," in an ultimate sense (including all those microbes), but we have uniquely separated ourselves from the larger Creation. We live most immediately in a world of our own making.

It's embarrassing, sometimes, when we get an inkling of just how far out of touch we are with the more profound realities that surround us.

As I hope that Australian news reader finally figured out.