[MD] Smokey Bear Sutra

[MarshaV]

And the Goddess Pandora Pandemic may agree with you...



At 07:43 AM 6/18/2009, you wrote:
>You forgot the tale of cosmic chicken steer and 
>fish who created the universe, came to earth and 
>were harvested like wheat for smug whites to eat 
>in sandwich buns and nuggets in chicken fingers 
>and beef strips and steaks so they could feel 
>superior to those that hunted, they spoke of 
>love for bear with steer and chicken and fish in 
>their bellies reaped as grain, raised in pens 
>for slaughter. No one sings for them. Whites do 
>not see them as beings too. They pay other 
>whites to kill them for them so that they remain 
>clean and above reproach, they do not see the 
>meat they eat as life too. Cosmic chicken was 
>slaughtered by a machine after a life in a cage 
>and force fed, hung from her feet after her eggs 
>were taken from her. Along with cosmic calf, 
>hung  like dried stalks of grain with their kin 
>by the thousands to be "processed".  So if one 
>ever ate meat of any kind, and did not kill it 
>yourself and give thanks to the animal spirit, 
>then one has no room to speak of the wrongness 
>of hunting Bear who lives free and dies free who 
>is honored by his sacrifice.. 
>________________________________ From: MarshaV 
><marshalz at charter.net> To: 
>moq_discuss at moqtalk.org Sent: Thursday, June 18, 
>2009 4:18:27 AM Subject: Re: [MD] Smokey Bear 
>Sutra I love myself I love you --- I love you I 
>love myself At 12:12 AM 6/18/2009, you wrote: > 
>The Whale Who Dreamed It Was A Bear Who Dreamed 
>It Was A Whale > > Billions and billions of 
>years ago, way back when the Universe was a much 
>warmer, much younger, and a much more blue place 
>there lived a giant whale named 
>White-Bear-Dancing who swam between the dusty 
>expanses of exploding supernovas and newborn 
>stars on sparkling dancing waters that -- due to 
>the ever-faster expansion of the Universe -- 
>have since become thin and diffuse and no longer 
>capable of sustaining life. > > As it swam along 
>fast-fluid corridors of warm vibrant liquid 
>White-Bear-Dancing breathed in great gulps of 
>life-giving liquids and through the gargantuan 
>black-gaping blow-hole situated on the top of 
>its head the giant whale spouted enormous 
>geysers filled with condensed gases and tiny 
>droplets each containing the seed of life 
>growing deep inside its dark cavernous lungs 
>forever breathing in and out, in and out. > > 
>Since the Universe was (and still is) round 
>White-Bear-Dancing found that it had to swim in 
>circles and though it really didn't know why, it 
>discovered by trial and error that it much 
>preferred swimming to the right to swimming to 
>the left and so the giant whale imparted a 
>right-hand spin to all the life-giving waters it 
>blew out its spout as it circled to-and-fro 
>throughout the Universe always turning to the 
>right as it went. > > The giant whale didn't 
>remember where it came from nor did it have a 
>particular goal in mind; it simply never 
>occurred to it to wonder at the wonder of it 
>all, but it did finally fall sleep after many 
>eons of wandering amongst the fast-forming 
>galaxies and dreamed a dream of a beautiful blue 
>world spinning endlessly in the blackest of 
>nights. > > One day after a sleep of many 
>billions of years the giant whale woke up and 
>discovered the Universe had become a mean 
>polluted place filled with plastic bottles, 
>beach balls, and used computer monitors that 
>clogged its blow-hole and caused it to sneeze 
>mighty sneezes that made galaxies collide and 
>stars wink out in an instant like candles on a 
>birthday cake. > > White-Bear-Dancing went in 
>search of the source of the ever-growing stream 
>of trash, eventually following the trail back, 
>back, back to the little blue dream planet 
>spinning madly around a tiny yellow star in an 
>otherwise unordinary and spectacularly 
>unspectacular part of a cartwheel galaxy known 
>as the Milky Way to the speckled people who 
>populated the pale blue dot known as Earth. > > 
>Gazing down onto the tiny treasure, the giant 
>whale suddenly realized that even though the 
>Universe was forever growing larger, larger, 
>larger, the whale itself was not and so now it 
>was no longer a giant whale but merely a very 
>large one, and as the gaze was a gaze (like 
>everything the whale did) to the right, it 
>spiraled down, down, down into the atmosphere of 
>the tiny blue planet plummeting faster and 
>faster until finally impaling itself in the 
>middle of a soft muddy bog in the middle of a 
>large continent that would one day become known 
>as North America. > > The rather large whale 
>carved out a hole in the land that would one day 
>fill with water and be called Lake Michigan but 
>for now it lay gasping to get the breath back 
>that had been knocked out with the sudden stop 
>afforded by the soft yet still remarkably 
>resilient bog in which it had settled. > > Then, 
>a bright star rose up into the sky and shining 
>down upon the large whale began to dry it out 
>and cause it to shrink smaller and smaller and 
>smaller until it lay in the middle of a vast 
>depression formed when it hit the earth ages 
>ago. > > As it dried out the whale's fins became 
>arms and legs and its tail disappeared to a 
>little nub and it grew fur over its body and it 
>learned to grunt and growl in pleasure and pain 
>like the bear the whale had become as it made 
>stunning discoveries about this new world it now 
>inhabited. > > The bear didn't remember being a 
>whale; the bear didn't remember anything at all 
>before it became a bear and in fact such a 
>thought never entered its head in all the days 
>of its life... the bear met another bear and had 
>cubs, raising them together in a warm cozy den 
>that the bear entered by entering a cave and 
>turning right several times. > > The bear became 
>known as Boo Bear, third cousin to Smoky Bear 
>(though twice removed by marriage) and best 
>friends with Master Yogi, who taught a night 
>class in mindful meditation at the local 
>community church on Thursdays and Saturdays and 
>worked a day job as a garbage man (or sanitation 
>professional as he preferred to be called) in 
>the local forest preserve. > > One day Boo Bear 
>and Yogi were sitting on the long wavy green 
>grass by a rainbow waterfall having a discourse 
>over the collected works of Plato when an arrow 
>came shooting out of the nearby brush BLAM! 
>striking Boo Bear in the middle of her breast, 
>piercing her aorta and filling her left lung 
>with blood, which gushed from her mouth and 
>nostrils as the life ran out of her body and her 
>arms and legs twitched spasmodically and Yogi 
>ran in circles screaming and shouting. > > The 
>Hunter came out of the brush chasing Yogi away 
>and then kneeling and cutting Boo's liver from 
>her still warm body, raising it to the sky in 
>thanks, not realizing what he had done in the 
>name of his hunger, never knowing what wonders 
>Boo had seen, not caring for the cubs at her den 
>who would never see their mother again. > > As 
>per her last wish, her cremated remains were 
>scattered to the breeze whereas a tremendous 
>mighty wind arose and blowing the ashes higher 
>and higher in a clockwise spiral they finally 
>blew all the way back into the night from which 
>she had fallen so many years ago, and she 
>remembered the dream she was dreaming and became 
>a whale once again, riding through the stars 
>leaving a little trail of broken pieces of her 
>heart as she goes. > > > 
>---------------------------------------- > > 
>Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:15:25 -0700 > > From: 
>ridgecoyote at gmail.com > > To: 
>moq_discuss at moqtalk.org > > Subject: [MD] Smokey 
>Bear Sutra > > > > SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRABY GARY 
>SNYDER > > > > Once in the Jurassic about 150 
>million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in > > 
>this corner of the Infinite Void gave a 
>discourse to all the assembled > > elements and 
>energies: to the standing beings, the walking 
>beings, the > > flying beings, and the sitting 
>beings--even the grasses, to the number of > > 
>thirteen billion, each one born from a seed, 
>assembled there: a Discourse > > concerning 
>Enlightenment on the planet Earth. > > > > "In 
>some future time, there will be a continent 
>called America. It will have > > great centers 
>of power called such as Pyramid Lake, Walden 
>Pond, Mt. > > Rainier, Big Sur, Everglades, and 
>so forth; and powerful nerves and channels > > 
>such as Columbia River, Mississippi River, and 
>Grand Canyon. The human race > > in that era 
>will get into troubles all over its head, and 
>practically wreck > > everything in spite of its 
>own strong intelligent Buddha-nature." > > > > 
>"The twisting strata of the great mountains and 
>the pulsings of volcanoes > > are my love 
>burning deep in the earth. My obstinate 
>compassion is schist and > > basalt and granite, 
>to be mountains, to bring down the rain. In that 
>future > > American Era I shall enter a new 
>form; to cure the world of loveless > > 
>knowledge that seeks with blind hunger: and 
>mindless rage eating food that > > will not fill 
>it." > > > > And he showed himself in his true 
>form of > > SMOKEY THE BEAR > > > > A handsome 
>smokey-colored brown bear standing on his hind 
>legs, showing that > > he is aroused and 
>watchful. > > > > Bearing in his right paw the 
>Shovel that digs to the truth beneath > > 
>appearances; cuts the roots of useless 
>attachments, and flings damp sand on > > the 
>fires of greed and war; > > > > His left paw in 
>the mudra of Comradely Display--indicating that 
>all > > creatures have the full right to live to 
>their limits and that of deer, > > rabbits, 
>chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all 
>grow in the realm of > > the Dharma; > > > > 
>Wearing the blue work overalls symbolic of 
>slaves and laborers, the > > countless men 
>oppressed by a civilization that claims to save 
>but often > > destroys; > > > > Wearing the 
>broad-brimmed hat of the west, symbolic of the 
>forces that guard > > the wilderness, which is 
>the Natural State of the Dharma and the true 
>path > > of man on Earth: > > > > *all true 
>paths lead through mountains*-- > > > > With a 
>halo of smoke and flame behind, the forest fires 
>of the kali-yuga, > > fires caused by the 
>stupidity of those who think things can be 
>gained and > > lost whereas in truth all is 
>contained vast and free in the Blue Sky and > > 
>Green Earth of One Mind; > > > > Round-bellied 
>to show his kind nature and that the great earth 
>has food > > enough for everyone who loves her 
>and trusts her; > > > > Trampling underfoot 
>wasteful freeways and needless suburbs, smashing 
>the > > worms of capitalism and 
>totalitarianism; > > > > Indicating the task: 
>his followers, becoming free of cars, houses, 
>canned > > foods, universities, and shoes, 
>master the Three Mysteries of their own > > 
>Body, Speech, and Mind; and fearlessly chop down 
>the rotten trees and prune > > out the sick 
>limbs of this country America and then burn the 
>leftover trash. > > > > Wrathful but calm. 
>Austere but Comic. Smokey the Bear will 
>Illuminate those > > who would help him; but for 
>those who would hinder or slander him... > > HE 
>WILL PUT THEM OUT. > > > > Thus his great 
>Mantra: > > > > *Namah samanta vajranam chanda 
>maharoshana Sphataya hum traka ham mam* > > > > 
>*"I DEDICATE MYSELF TO THE UNIVERSAL DIAMOND BE 
>THIS RAGING FURY BE > > DESTROYED"* > > > > And 
>he will protect those who love the woods and 
>rivers, Gods and animals, > > hobos and madmen, 
>prisoners and sick people, musicians, playful 
>women, and > > hopeful children: > > > > And if 
>anyone is threatened by advertising, air 
>pollution, television, or > > the police, they 
>should chant *SMOKEY THE BEAR'S WAR SPELL:* > > 
>DROWN THEIR BUTTSCRUSH THEIR BUTTSDROWN THEIR 
>BUTTSCRUSH THEIR BUTTS > > > > And SMOKEY THE 
>BEAR will surely appear to put the enemy out 
>with his > > vajra-shovel. > > > > Now those who 
>recite this Sutra and then try to put it in 
>practice will > > accumulate merit as countless 
>as the sands of Arizona and Nevada. > > > > Will 
>help save the planet Earth from total oil 
>slick. > > Will enter the age of harmony of man 
>and nature. > > Will win the tender love and 
>caresses of men, women, and beasts. > > Will 
>always have ripened blackberries to eat and a 
>sunny spot under a pine > > tree to sit 
>at. > > > > AND IN THE END WILL WIN HIGHEST 
>PERFECT ENLIGHTENMENT > > > > ...thus we have 
>heard... > > > > -- > > ------------ > > Self is 
>Choice, so choose good > > ------------ > > 
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