A few things I wanted to remember… (it's show and tell!)
Sometimes I get a few things in my head that I don’t want to lose. Or sometimes it’s stuff on the net that I’d like to share with someone, but nobody I know would really get it.
So here are a few.
The first was said by Jason last week. It just stuck with me.
He said it like:
Sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping [his head] for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn’t.
It’s from Winnie the Pooh. Actually, it’s part of the first two paragraphs. It really struck me. I feel this way a lot. Like there should be a better, easier way to do this, but can’t slow down enough to think of it. And then I think that even if I did slow down, there probably isn’t an easier way.
Here’s the full thing:
HERE is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn’t. Anyhow, here he is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh.
Yeah, Pooh’s real name is Edward Bear. Awesome.
Another thing that Jason said was: “I know that I’m wrong, but this is my answer.” I like that. It’s honest and a little pig-headed, but more than that, at least how Jason says it, it’s just that he hasn’t thought about it enough to make a new opinion.
I also found an old post I made on an ISKCON livejournal community about the Vedic concept of time. I’ve been looking for this for months. I reposted it on my LJ journal site. Here.
I also found two old “Saturday Laffs” comics from a Hare Krishna site that I somehow misplaced.
This one (read it) is funny, but only if you’re a devotee. Actually, you have to be a devotee who isn’t happy with some of the textual changes made to the books.
Quick history. Srila Prabhupada founded the Hare Krishna movement in ’66. From then till his death in ’78, he translated and wrote a TON of books. His first big one was Bhagavad-gita. He finished that in ’68 with his final revision in ’72. Well, after he died, some of his disciples thought that they would make some changes to it and call it “revised and enlarged.”
I’ve got no problem with the “enlarged” part. But I do have a big problem with the “revised” thing. See, if Srila Prabhupada used his version from ’68 to ’78, that’s 10 years. He used it everyday. If he wanted it to be revised and enlarged, he would have mentioned that to someone. He didn’t, so leave it alone.
A bunch of the other books have been revised (changed) as well. This started to happen when he was still alive. He was VERY VERY upset, stating that this tendency to change his words will destroy the Hare Krishna movement.
So it’s not like he didn’t address this already. It’s just wrong. Dear ISKCON, knock it off.
And the second comic is:
This one is about some devotees who talk in an Indian accent. There’s a weird perception that this is how spiritual people talk. It’s creepy.
It’s probably, mostly, innocent. A lot of devotees spend a lot of time in India. There’s bound to be a bit of affected accent going on. But I’ve heard this from American devotees who have never stepped foot in India. It’s hilarious.
I think that’s all that I brought for show and tell. Maybe I’ll think of more things later.
