Re: Mysticism
Reply #64 –
If people gets hot, cold, hungry or whatever I have no idea.
This is what I take to be the main argument contra such… I'd agree that there is no unassailable warrant; but, then, I long ago gave up the search for unassailable warrants.
Those who still want (! both senses !: lack and desire…) unassailable warrants mystify me! (That is, I don't understand what they want (ask) of me. Is nodding my head whenever they speak sufficient? Repeating their particular verbal formulations? Giving them access to my bank accounts? ) Why are my personal, eccentric pronouncements not given the primacy and potency of -say- Gautama? Because no statues of me exist?
(Had the Taliban had and used nuclear weapons, would there be no Buddha?)
Buddy Hackett went to Japan with the then-host of the Tonight Show, a variety/talk show on American (US) television, Jack Paar… They were scheduled to bathe in the communal baths and Paar pleaded with Hackett, "Please don't get naked in the bath…" Buddy promised he wouldn't.
He got naked in the elevator on its way to the baths! But the elevator had malfunctioned and returned them to the lobby.
Buddy, not perturbed, exited the elevator… He later remarked that the Japanese there mistook him for the Buddha! And, in a telling and consequential detail, said they tried to light incense in his navel!
Were they wrong? Had they lost the import of Gautama's teachings? Or was Buddy lying?
The last, I think! But it was funny…
Thus I express my dismay that a thread on Sense of Humor was locked! You all know why…
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The Mystical experience is another form of discovering
Or as Sparta so eloquently puts it: BS!