An excerpt from my lonely planet guidebook:
"Irascible Torontonian character Reg Hartt has ads wrapped around telephone poles advertising his Cineforum - the front room of his skuzzy victorian rowhouse where he showcases classic & avant-garde films. Animation retrospectives are his speciality as are rare Salvador Dali prints. Come prepared for idiosyncratic lectures designed to expand your consciousness, sometimes delivered right while the movies are playing"
Having seen the posters all over town advertising everything from the Wizard of Oz set to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd to a talk entitled "how I got out of Mcmaster psychiatric hospital in one piece" my appetite had been suitably whetted, and when I read that review I knew it would be a case of when, not if, Reg & I met.
I returned to Toronto on Sunday, and the bus ride up was particularly strange, I caught the bus up with someone who I thought I would be having some very interesting conversations with about enlightenment, spirituality & philosophy, but due to a complicated tangle of our personal lives, and tiredness, that didn't really manifest. It left me feeling like we hadn't got the messages from each other we were meant to be getting & it left me feeling a bit empty if I'm honest.
So Monday was already a strange day, what with the echoes of Sunday in my mind, and being back in a city where I know relatively few people, plus staying at the Zen Buddhist Temple, which has a strange energy at times to say the least. It turned out to be an incredible day though, full of realisations, and it capped off with me attending Reg's talk on LSD. There was only three of us there, and after Reg's energy had ran out & he'd retired to bed I spent a further five hours with Bede, the other attendee, discussing the true meaning of enlightenment. I'm pretty sure we got it nailed, and it culminated in us walking around the streets of Toronto until 4am, in which time he managed to successfully explain the theory of relativity & how everything is only ever happening in the here & now to me, whilst I managed to explain to him how vital Eckhart Tolle is in the awakening of the masses, and how you shouldn't just wait for people to seek enlightenment, you have to give them pointers which they can follow at their own pace at the right time. Life-changing stuff.
One thing I learned that evening I found really interesting. Apparently when the Buddha reached enlightenment he was sitting under a fig tree, and at that time in his life he was living on mainly fermenting fruit. Fermenting fig skins may have the fungus that is a natural form of lysergic acid, otherwise known as LSD. So the experience of enlightenment may or may not have come from Siddartha Gautama tripping balls. Funny, they haven't mentioned THAT at the Zen temple...
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"Siddhartha renounced his kingdom in search of 'truth'. But the'truth' was not easy to be found...
During his search, he traveled to distant lands...
He Study with the Hindus;and they did not brought him the enlightenment he was seeking for, nor had his experiment with asceticism. Rejecting self-indulgence as well as self-mortification, he determined to follow what he called the Middle Path and to devote himself to a course of mental cultivation and mystical concentration.
For 49 days he meditated, formulating a body of wisdom which was to bring mankind a new religion. When he arose he was enlightened, he was the Buddha, ready to go forth and teach others how to become enlightened."
*An important function of a Buddha is to act as a teacher, leading others to salvation by expounding the Dharma. The exception to this is the ‘private Buddha’ (Pratyekabuddha), who achieves enlightenment but does not teach.
we are all buddhas, we have the choice to teach others anything in our path-lifes, the only problem is that people (us) we get stucked in our mistakes we tend to never see the best of each day/person we usually tend to see the bad situations, And that ends affecting our possitive energy with negative , humans we tend to always see the negative side of the situation,(probably the beggining of it starts since we where given to birth or actually since we where growing in moms stomach and then born,"not sure if anybody understand what im trying to say" is something about insecurities transfered to us by our ancestors,dna,city situations...) Anyways what im trying to say is this:(should be easier to explain my hole point cause im just mess up with my mind right now...):
Energy is around and inside of each of us every second of our existence. It is responsible for the way we feel, act, and even our successes and failures. Energy is our own personal life force, which happens to be the very essence of life. We have become a living picture of our personal biography (life story) as seen in our bodies pathology (disease).
God, in all his wisdom and knowledge provided each one of us with the ability to maintain our life force energy. This is done by using our universal energy to do so.
*Im sorry i wrote this much but i had all this information saved in some part of my brain... but i like the lsd way to go for the enlightenment lol buddha rocks!
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