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Bozo-Sattva

Voltaire once said that, “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.”  

In a similar vein (as opposed to an artery), the prolific and world renowned writer whose pen name is Anonymous is reputed to have said, “Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.”  

Evan Hodkins of the School of Alchemy <http://www.schoolofalchemy.com> has creating a fine art of what he refers to as “Self-Squandering Love-Mischief.”  In his unique deconstruction of the English language, Hodkins writes:  

      “According to tradition, the Buddha, scaling the wall of Nirvana, beheld the paradisal riches of infinite bliss, and decisively slipped over the barrier into total Enlightenment.  He was gone!  The Bodhisattva similarly encountered Nirvana, but conscientiously elected to return to Earth to assist in the illumination of all sentient beings.  Hence, the image of the Bodhisattva, like Christ, elucidates the archetype of self-transcending servanthood.  Those who undertake the Bodhisattva path attempt to ‘love without loving’ -- without attachment to the outcome of the service rendered.  The urge to serve is not compromised by expectations of rewards or recognition.  [See, as an additional example, true Philanthropy.]  This style of compassion is less like Velcro, more like Teflon.  It isn’t sticky and it doesn’t make a mess!  Become a Bodhisattva and your Vampire days are over!

 

      “The trouble is, the Bodhisattva is vulnerable to episodes of terminal seriosity.  Too much somber service and the heart goes sour, bodies get exhausted and the old lethargy returns with a compensatory vengeance.  G. K. Chesterton said, ‘Life is entirely too important to be taken seriously.’  We’re all Bozos on the same bus -- colorful screwups orchestrating gleeful good for the sake of all Bozo-kind.  So how exactly do we systematically unfrown the world?  Add a pinch of tomfoolery and a dash of anonymous love-mischief to every splendid day.  Be love-idiots and merry pranksters.  It’s the traceless way.  The formula is simple -- you watched it on TV when you were just a puppy -- wear a fashionable mask, ride into town on a white horse, work your transformative magic, accidentally drop a silver bullet here and there, then skidaddle, leaving everyone in town scratching their heads in wonderment.  Wake up!  Why park your carcass in the Land of Despair?  We’re ambassadors of joviality and dis-arming tenderness.  Let’s mirth-ify the planet one person at a time.”           

Now does that have the potential for fun, or what!  With the same kind of abandon one can practice using the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, we can roam about creating mischief of the love variety, Close Encounters of the Love Kind.  Even if you’re only doing it to office mates -- with the more terminally serious ones reaping the more outlandish benefits -- it’s all in the attitude.  And if you don’t like where you’re at, change your latitude as well!  

And check out Evan’s stuff -- there is tons more on being a Bozo-Sattva than is dreamt of in this small webpage.  Just be sure and come back to:  

 

Synthesis         Wisdom         The Fool’s Journey         The Hero’s Journey  

The Pursuit of Happiness

Or forge ahead to:

 Five Paths         Douglas Adams         Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Babylon 5    

Desiderata         Love N’ Death         They Went Thataway

   

               

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