Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Bill Hicks Story

I'm watching the Bill Hicks story and it seems very relevant to what I'm working through in my life at the moment. Hicks was a bodhisattva of comedy and once he stepped on the spiritual path he had no choice but to become a self-actualized spiritual comedian or a human train wreck. For some people, and I suspect I'm one of them, the spiritual path is like Neo's choice in the Matrix.
"You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." -Morpheus
Whatever plans you had, whatever expectations you had about life are all now moot. As a child I wanted to be the next Isaac Newton, but once I became a yogi I became even more ambiguous. What truths would a realized and enlightened Isaac Newton be able to grasp, what service would be he able to perform for humanity? What would it mean to be a bodhisattva of science and technology? This is the mission of my life and it is interesting to note that this also perfectly alines with the totality of my remaining interests. I still feel real passion for social justice and advancement and I am very focused on writing the core truths that I have come to understand. Every mental health catastrophe is a potential spiritual victory and my entire personal predicament at the moment could be nothing more than the spiritual cocoon for a transformation into my "butterfly" form. Although I've been hoping that God would just speak directly to me, sometimes the problem is that we are doing a crap job of listening. If you are being stupid, God always has the option to just reduce everything down to one possible path.

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