Our Lady’s Shadow
Not only the Bible and the history of Christianity need to be rewritten, but the history of mankind and human values in general, including that of our crown jewels wisdom, enlightenment, kindness and compassion …
Traditional Buddhism as well got it wrong when trying to tell us that women come to this world on a lower karmic level than men because they are exposed to more suffering than men …
As if being born in comfort and luxury were a sign of distinction. Quite the opposite. To be exposed to greater suffering means you are on an advanced karmic level, better equipped to handle serious challenges. Those born to comfort and luxury rarely ever amount to much. No need for them to wake up and learn about true values. Buddha may have been the exception that confirms the rule …
Greater challenges result in more profound insights. The best proof is that ladies are far more inclined to show kindness and compassion. At least they used to be until their minds got twisted by equal rights and opportunities politicking. Entering the arena of competition and elbowing their way to the front row now as the worst of their male enemies. Only the toughest survive. Duhhh …
Christianity and the power institution of the Roman Catholick Church, erected by male ego that’s driven by its suppressed libido, were founded on lies and omissions, bent facts and twisted interpretations of what Jesus is reported to have said and done …
The first and probably fundamental lie was the suppression of our Lady Mary Magdalene. Turned into a whore and a harlot by the elders, the very subject they feared like the devil is rumored to fear the holy water of baptism. Quite a sneaky reversal of values like most of the Catholick’s tricks and twists …
Not just bending and twisting our Lady Magdalene out of shape, but Jesus as well who had come to save us all from exactly this kind of power farting ego mania …
Wisdom is won through suffering, not by avoiding it, the way Buddhists and Indian Yogis try telling us. No amount of praying and meditation will ever get us where suffering and agony eventually get us, provided we survive them …
It takes pain and suffering beyond bearing to break open those seeds of sounds which make up our mantras and prayers, thus allowing for new life to grow from those seeds. Without the pressure of unbearable suffering those seeds will remain closed and eventually die …
Without suffering man will never move beyond the armor of his ignorance that protects him from an overload of input his processing unit couldn’t handle. To crack the armor and break it down requires suffering beyond the capacities of reason and common sense, driving us out into the war zone …
Thinking, understanding and compassion begin when it hurts. And the deeper the hurt goes, the deeper and more profound our insights into the mysteries of life and its purposes. The fact that ladies by nature are exposed to more suffering than men is proof that they are on a higher karmic level, meaning more qualified for an understanding of the deeper and more profound mysteries of life and ourselves …
Simply to renounce life and any attachments to its promises of hope and redemption may be an easy way out, but whatever may be achieved that way is superficial compared to the insights of those who have suffered and survived …
Not to mention those who manage to forgive their tormentors. They are the true heroes, the Uebermenschen Nietzsche had been hallucinating. The super-humans, the bigger than life-size heroes. The future of mankind …
The enlightened renouncers may shake their heads and sigh: Yeah, life is tough. Better renounce and learn to forgive. I doubt any of them have gotten close to terror and suffering. Otherwise their sensitivity and compassion would make them refrain from dishing such talk, most likely from commenting at all. They’d rather go mad from sharing what neither mind nor reason can handle. I hope no man will dish such lines when his wife is about to give birth to their first child …
Only those who go and have gone through severe suffering have acquired the sensitivity necessary to share in and take on at least part of the burden of our suffering fellow beings. Men may go to war, but all they learn and do is fight back and resist. Refusing to open up and take it on, whatever the deal is …
The best of ladies are full of gratitude, once the ordeal is over and they hold the reward in their arms. From then on they know about mysteries and true values no man can ever hope to understand. All we can do is look on in wonder and admiration, grateful to be allowed to take part in the miracle …
Life is not about fighting and resisting, and it’s not about evading and going on a vacation, mumbling Om, hopefully never to come back to the mess of real life. Life is hell, and the only way is to go through to the end of it. Never mind what the reward may be …
Has anyone who went through hell to the end of it and survived, bothered to talk about it? So what’s the message? The message is: Shut up and get going. Deal with it …
Follow the lady of your heart, should you be so lucky to have met her. Let her take the lead. No man, no matter how brilliant his mind, how high-faluting his talk, will ever know. A few of us may have an hunch, and all we can do is shut up, bow our head and bend our knee in front of a lady should we meet one …
A true lady is a wonder and a miracle. A true gentleman at best may be her shadow. May those who assume to be in charge bow their head and bend their knee and be your humble servants, Milady …
