Obama's Healthcare plan... Opt out or is there another way?

I just received an email from a right winger who is encouraging me to opt out of the Obama's health plan. This I agree with, but after looking at the site where the "opt out" form resides I cannot agree with the foundation of their desires and what it might or might not accomplish, nor do I agree with what is being proposed; so I wrote this back ...

Sir, I’m not a communist or socialist, but I’m a not a right wing nut either. Yet something needs to get done…

As is, the medical establishment has screwed us big time, insurance it out of sight, we can't afford to come out of pocket, so what do u suggest?

Like it or not some form of socialized medicine must be put in place, one that permits (demands) people care for themselves or “not care” and die, it’s ok with me…

To permit people to self-destruct and then expect me to pay for their ten last years of life under the “care” doctors, hospitals, hospices, is crazy. Whatever happened to responsibility?

The right wingers talk about being independent from the government all the time, yet they abuse themselves more than most, they smoke the most, drink the most and eat the most crap. So I don’t want their way, I don’t want Obama's way, I want a way that truly makes sense and forces people (if they want assistance from the government or me) to care for themselves or die on their own dollar…

Thanks for listening…. gabriel

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Are you stuck?

I have a question. “Has wisdom ceased, revelation stopped, was there a time somewhere in the past when knowledge was capped?"

For years I was deeply involved with the fundamentalist christians, they believe when the bible was completed the canon closed, god stopped speaking to us. That all needed information was contained between the pages of the bible and anyone who said they "heard from god" was deceived, that those messages were from the devil. BOO!

I know know many who know me here are not fundamentalist christians and don't carry that around with you, but let me make an observation....

In the buddhist community, I'll only speak of them now for they are who I'm most familiar, but I would not be surprised if you find it also relates to the practice you may be involved, or one you know of...

I have been chastened more than once; first as a christian, now as a buddhist for saying, asking, “why do we continue to do things as they were done 1000, 2000, 5000 years ago?” Their answer to me, “this is truth, this was seen by such and such a lama, an enlightened being, the buddha said it, etc etc.”

I say that before there was (you fill in the gap) there was something else, and when the new thing arose it became "truth" so why if at that moment people were willing to accept change (btw this is the nature of all things) why do they now stay so attached to the past.

Is there not a perpetual stream of consciousness passing by each moment, is not space "information" and is not that information fresh each moment?  If you say Yes, then why not from the foundation of what was can we not make was is?

I say, no reason, none other than our propensity towards attachment, attachment to a teacher or teaching that offered us something we like, something that may have touched us. It is like tasting ice cream for the first time and falling in love with vanilla, it being your first taste, then forever putting up your nose to every new flavor Ben and Jerry creates. Oh want a waste of good information and great flavors...

This is what we do, at least many of us... I for one have been tired of it for 30 years. At times for the sake of fellowship (it is a lonely road I walk) I'd return, returned just to find myself asking the same question, “why with all this ice cream pouring from space am I still eating only one flavor, one that by now is old and tired, one that no longer relates to my palate?"

Imagine if we stopped at the horse or rubbing two sticks together.

I'm not trying to rewrite anyone’s life or practice, just see me as one who shouts from my sixth story window alerting those of what I see from my vantage point.

I love you all....

Be wise, be clear, be happy, and please be brave... gabriel

Owning?

Who can own a tree, the ground we stand on, the air we breathe, water we drink, the seeds we sow?

Guess what, someone either already owns these things or is trying hard to soon become their owner...

Be careful of what you give up, once given up is very very hard to get back...

We are human beings living on our planet, our home, should we not be able to live, bred, eat off of, and live off of it, no change?

Now wouldn't "that" be returning to the garden, a sweet sweet revolution...

Don't lose your spark, the essence of your true self. It is what sings oneness, oneness, oneness...... How can we be one with something that is no longer our own...

sad smiles...gi


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Kill to stop killing.......

Do we kill to stop killing?

There are groups of Buddhists who take the line "helping and protecting others" (from guru yoga) completely out of context from my view. Let me ask, should we have a great buddhist army, locked and loaded, ready to kill, in order to protect? I think not...

To protect from a buddhist view (my buddhist view) i...s like the Mahakala's protective energy, which is to protect us from wasting our lives, to protect our practice, our clear view so we will not to waste this prescious opportunity, this life. Taking martial arts classes, spending time at the gun range, etc, are all fear based activities., this time is better spent "coming to know oneself."

We know there will be suffering, we cannot stop it, it is useless; instead we what must protect is our view of what the suffering means, and allow it to do its work in our evolutionary journey...

JMHO...gabriel

Creators, gods and fantasies............

These concepts are not good for a clear mind.. Awaken!

It's up to us what will happen, we are not cosmic toys, victims of space, nor puppets in some show. We are independent arisings; we create our life a moment at a time... Take back all responsibility, it's all about you, you are the "creator."

Have a great day of manifesting all you are and see... gi