Reprint of Consciousness Comedy piece...
R. Martin
DEAR SWAMI
by Swami Beyondananda
"Where Swami Answers Your Questions - and You Will Question His
Answers"
Dear Swami:
It seems to me that the problem with the world is too many do-gooders
trying to fix it. The world is what it is, always has been and always
will be. We seem to be going around in the same circles, and those
trying to "make the world a better" place seem to be making it worse.
It sure seems to prove that old saying, "The road to hell is paved
with good intentions." Personally, I think it's a waste of time to try
to change the world. Do you agree?
Meade E. Yoker, State College, Pennsylvania
Dear Meade:
Well, I agree about one thing. It is indeed a waste of time to try to
change the world, when there is a more efficient approach: Let's
toilet train the world, and we'll never have to change it again. As
for things never getting better, well tell that to Gandhi or Martin
Luther King or any of America's Founding Fathers. We humans have
indeed evolved, otherwise the casual comment, "We'd love to have you
for dinner sometime" would be taken as a threat, not an invitation.
Indeed, the vicious cycles of history are in place because of our
belief that it can be no other way. Me, I say when you find yourself
caught up in a vicious cycle, stop peddling. Have you ever noticed
that the folks who are most invested in the idea that the road to hell
is paved with good intentions-are the folks with bad intentions? No,
the do-gooders aren't our problem. The problem is the bad-doers who
manipulate and enroll the rest of us to do their bad-doings with them
by insisting we're all original sinners. Yes, we are susceptible but
whether we actually get infected by these sociopathogens, that is
ultimately up to us. So you are partly right. The road to hell is
indeed paved with people with good intentions-who have been used as
paving stones ... by people with bad intentions.
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name Swami Beyondananda. His name is John Mundy, he teaches on ACIM
and has a church in New York.
I have a tape somewhere that I bought after his lecture. Here is one
of my favorite jokes:
I had a lifetime that I just sat at the feet of Buddha and asked him
one anoying question after another. They named a city after me.
It was called Budapest.
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