On Happiness and Wisdom.

 We all find it important to be happy; and it is easy to be happy, but it is an activity to make oneself actually happy.

Happiness does not always come just like that out of nowhere. Just like unhappiness or suffering comes from some reason.  Happiness is the contrary of suffering. Our most well-known and followed Holy teacher Jesus the Christ, which means actually: any unexpected deliverer, savior or rescuer; acknowledged the suffering of the people of his religion, which was Judaism.  He saw that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth would leave the whole world blind and speechless. He came therefore with His New Message of Love, and was rejected and killed.

600 years before Jesus there was another teacher who saw the suffering of his people, and he found The Way to stop the suffering. He was one who had achieved a state of perfect enlightenment, a holy man, a holy person, a saint, a person of exceptional holiness, which was the Buddha. He taught Wisdom as a way to overcome suffering. 
Western scholars have pointed out a number of curious parallels between certain passages given in the Buddhist Astasahasrika-prajnaparamita-sutra and the Christian Revelation, and here I quote of the Astasahasrika-prajnaparamita Sutra:

“Perfect Wisdom spreads her radiance…and is worthy of worship. Spotless, the whole world cannot stain her. In her we may find refuge; her works are most excellent; she brings us to safety under the sheltering wings of enlightenment. She brings light to the blind, that all fears and calamities may be dispelled…and she scatters the gloom and darkness of delusion. She leads those who have gone astray to the right path. She is omniscience; without beginning or end is Perfect Wisdom, who has Emptiness as her characteristic mark; she is mother of the bodhisattvas*. She cannot be struck down, the protector of the unprotected.”

The word marked by the asterisk* explained here:
*Those who are allowed to see the truth under the agreement that they will communicate it to others, also: An enlightened being who, out of compassion, forgoes nirvana in order to save others, or literally an "enlightenment being"- to keep free all beings from the coils of suffering.

Bodhisattva Captain Zen

Respect is the keyword today and very much concern about the lack of it. Re- means again, like in return, review, research, -spect comes from looking, as in spectator, spectacle. Respect means look again, to look twice, to double look.If someone respects the law he looks very good at it and if someone demands respect he has something that merits looking at him again. Where people live impulsively, acting on the spur of the moment, doing whatever the basic instinct dictates, respect does not come into play. Only to look once, without thinking and to do without thinking is lacking respect. Know Thy Self means the same as respect yourself, look at yourself. Not after it is too late, after a stupid act took place, when one finds him/herself in trouble, but before. Apologies always come too late, sorry always is a waste of words. It always means disrespect. My wish to all educators and all who want to learn: look again, and again and again, until you see. Remember the words of Jesus: He who has eyes, that he may see.

To answer the Jewish person that replied on my letter about Israel and wanted to know my religion. I am religious, yes, and very much so, but I have not one established so called religion. I have been called a Gnostic, someone who has God in his very being; and nothing stands between me and God. No dogma, rule, organization,  cult or group. From my earliest days the world has tried to make me believe that the Jewish god is jealous and should be feared, the Christian god is not one but three, the Islam prophet with his twelve wives was the true One and that Krishna should be my guide to the Divine, as well as Buddha whose teachings will lead to enlightenment. I studied all and every way, followed all the ceremonies, kissed the hands of priests, visited the Pope, drunk Jesus blood and ate his body, I saw the Dalai Lama and sung Orthodox Gregorian psalms, all to no avail. Not an inkling of the Divine. Untill my journey was directed inward and I got rid of the endless teachings of the religious conmen and priests and leaders. Only when I made myself empty of the past and arrived at the present, now, did I start to see the light. In the nothingness wherewith the Bible begin, in the emptiness of nothingness, did the Divine enter. By putting away myself God could enter. Call it meditation, or watchfulness, or awareness, call it love.. When I see the trees dance in the wind and the flowers open to shed their perfume, when the children come laughing to dance around me and the birds sing their song, I know that I am part of the universe, part of what you call God. By dismissing old rules of the past and becoming a presently living human being, I experience religiousness. And I recommend every person to look inward to find the center of your being where no other than pure knowledge can judge your self, where God resides in all its pureness and love. Unfortunately, this truth cannot be thought, it can only be experienced. It cannot be learned or received or given. You can only discover yourself by observing yourself and by fading out all lies and untruths, Until the Truth takes over. You was born out of love, it is your very core. Rediscover it it by shedding all learned rules and regulations, peel away layer  after layer of so called knowledge until you find back your inner emptiness, where the original you, made of love, resides. I'll meet you there.

Let me tell you once again, the reasons for  violence, crime, insecurity, lack of respect.

Like a blind man groping in the dark is the person asking about solutions for the violence, the lack of concern, the hate and the pain it causes. Jesus message of love has never been implemented by the churches that have sprouted up around His ideas and teachings. Born out of love and born with love everybody should be loving. But the politicians and priests have destroyed that love from day one. Love makes one a rebel. Rebel against the lies and the hate. Against the possessiveness of the world. Love does not posses. Love is freedom. And freedom does not exist in this world of frontiers, religious laws and capitalistic money hoarding. Frustration is the result of those people who cannot suppress their love any longer. The church wants you to be their member and nobody else’s member. You  belong to this or that church, you are not free, you cannot be love. Love cannot be restricted to one thing only, then it is not love, then it is preference. One must love his country, but can only do so by hating ,or not so strong, disliking other countries. Every nation calls itself best, implementing that others are worse. There is no love in that. Every persons intrinsic nature is love when born. From the beginning this love is curbed, destroyed and corrupted. What of a jealous God that tolerates no other? Is that Love? The religions have created fear, the opposite of love. Only people that are afraid are easy to manipulate. A person of love knows no fear. Love is courageous. The politicians and the priests work hand in hand, you always see them together at official happenings. They do not want loving people, they cannot be manipulated. The natural love that is everybody birthright is hidden, hurt, damaged, but not destroyed completely, it cannot disappear totally. Hence the rebellion, the frustrated violence, the crazy deeds from those who themselves not know why they go crazy. In fact everybody is part of the madness. Except for those few that come like Jesus, with words of love, and whips to chase the moneymakers, and words of comfort for the whores, nobody gives in to the natural love that is the basic source of life. People like Jesus that want to change the hate policy and the wrong of the authorities are killed, deported or otherwise eliminated. Society has no place for those who are filled with love. When love is in a person, why should he go to a church or temple to look for God? When he is dancing, happy, full of gods love, why look for god in books, temples? That is why we have this violence, crime and problems in the world. And here in our own backyard. When more people are involved in planting trees and flowers than in making weapons and war, maybe the world would begin to heal. It won't happen. For those who feel the wrongs, because love is still alive  inside, hold on, you are not alone, a few of us are always around, But to protect ourselves we must operate under the surface, low profile. Because we upset the policies from church and state.    

I am here again to educate and help to modernize your old fashioned view of sexual conduct. Because the way you and most older people have been thinking about sex has only led to HIV infections, teen pregnancies and  abortions, frustrations, feelings of guilt and domestic violence, rape and unhealthy sexual practice.

Your habit of hiding the truth about the beauty of  sex has never done any good or helped young curious people one bit.

I agree that sex is not the only matter in the life of men and women. It is however the means by which all men and women came and will come into this world. And it is on the minds of every young person, if not all of the time, then much of the time.

Humanimals  are the only animals that can consciously enjoy sex for other reasons than procreation. Western religion-makers of old needed to control the masses and as sex is enjoyed by everyone, they made sex a sin, and they condemned sex as long as it was not done like animals, for multiplication only...Which scared the ignorans enough to do what the church told them to do.

In the East this mean idea was never developed and there it was that ways where discovered to reach heavenly ecstasy and even enlightenment through artful sexual conduct. They call this art Tantra. The pleasures of the body are cultivated, and things like bondage, rape and sado-masochism are unheard of in the East. They are the product of the churches condemnation of the most natural thing that can happen between two humanimals.

In mother nature’s world, sex is the main reason for everything that happens, for how things look, smell and sound. Flowers that turn into fruits do that for procreation. Fragrance of flowers and also smells of humans are to attract the other gender. It is for the joy of living that sexual activities are created by God. All of us are equipped with the tools to enjoy each another. Colors  and fragrances of  flowers are to attract insects that will enter the flower to get at the honey that is deep inside so that the insect will get pollen on its skin which often is hairy, like the bee, in order to pick up as much as possible to bring it  to other flowers so they can reproduce.

Songs that birds sing in the forest, are to attract birds of the other gender, in order to meet and breed. Even the good taste of some berries and fruits eaten by birds are sexual tricks from the trees and bushes that produce them. The birds and  other animals that eat them do often not digest the seeds inside these fruits  and carry them far away  from the original source.

Lipstick, eye shadow and other cosmetics are to make men  look, and to arouse them. Today’s fashion of  bare backs with a few flimsy strings,  super low pants that reveal  belly buttons and at times more, are to arouse  men, because men get visually turned on.

What the Church does, to use the sexual urge as a means to control people is nothing but a crime against humanity. We have seen that the so called celibate priests go to young innocent boys to satisfy their sexual urges.

It is up to us, responsible adults, to inform the young ones about the great pleasures that can be had with good sexual  conduct, how to avoid pregnancy and diseases, how to get the most out of each encounter. Forgiven are those adults that themselves never had the pleasure and cannot transmit this knowledge. If you are one of those you should abstain from informing the young and the curious, because what you didn’t experience yourself, you cannot teach.

Beware of the one who knows not, but be warned even more for the one who pretends to know...

It's hard to put a date on it, but some time ago, women became emancipated. They invade the workplace, other than housemaids and nurses I mean, and they became a considerable force in the economics of the country. Also in politics do we have women active, and often more so than their male colleges. The emancipation has changed society. It has made many women independent and free. For the family value, many still seek the company of men, which is not always the reason why men seek the company of women. Men for the most part have not kept up with the emancipation and men have not developed and progressed at all. They still live in the past where women had to rely on them for shelter, food and protection. Many men today still do not accept that women are just like them, that they like to be free, independent, strong and in command. I try not to pinpoint exceptions, outstanding examples of excessively strong women, female presidents. pirates even, or scientists. I try to look at the many women that have not had the chance to good or higher education, that have no good paying jobs and that still find themselves in the hands of men that abuse them. It is those men that cannot accept that their dominant role is over. Through centuries of male dominance, men feel that they can abuse women and get away with it. Even today, even here on Sint Maarten do men beat up women and think that they are right. How to stop this is beyond my comprehension other than to tell every man who reads this that he must watch himself and all other men he knows. That every man must look deep inside and find that he is only half of Gods creation, and that woman is the other half, which makes us equal. If man has rights, so has woman. if he can screw around so can she. If he can work, so can she.

If there is no equality, then slavery is not yet abandoned. Mental slavery, economic slavery. And religious slavery as well, because the Bible makers of old where men who did not want to admit the power of women and women have been underrated from the first days of so called Christianity. They could not and still cannot get into the high church jobs, reserved for men only. How long it will take before men understand what it means to love a woman or how to love women, apart from getting sexual favors of them, nobody knows, but every man can start to watch his own behavior and in case it needs adjustment, do it. Is it not amazing that for the protection of battered women a foundation had to be made: Safe Haven, while no such thing is needed for men. That should explain enough.

To those who seek (and will find, at some point in time), I recommend: the Masters.  Look for them in the library, on the internet and everywhere, because they are here to help. Call them what you want, do not believe (in) them, but study what they have to say.  And do not stop by One, seek More of Them, All of Them and recognize that there are many. You are not alone.

Here follow the names under which some are known. 

Bob Marley

Jesus

Osho

Neale Donald Walsh

Mahavira

Rudolph Steiner

Gautama the Buddha

Michael Jackson

Gurdief

Erasmus

Eckehardt

The Masters have tried through times memorial to help mankind and the human individual. There are two kind of Masters, those that dwell in the  Radiant Light and sit still to  wait for  seekers to find them and those that also found Enlightenment but go out to teach as many individuals as possible to lift them over and above their present state of ignorance, poverty, suffering and loneliness. Some use songs and music, even jokes and tricks. These Masters or Enlightened Ones, or Buddha’s, or Saviors, or Christ’s, call them Stars, have given methods of learning, solutions, ideas and concepts to alleviate the pain and the mental agony that exists in every human being that has a thinking and awakening mind.  You know in your soul that there is more than what we have here now. There must be more than the killing, the intolerance, the sexual repression, the hunger and poverty. Not one Master alone can satisfy all. But all the Masters together can teach many. Study them, read them, listen to them. Do not follow them but take their advice and ideas and create your own reality with the knowledge they supply. The list of Masters is very much longer than what I put here, and some are more appealing to you than others. Take your pick, you will find more of them while you go along. They will confirm your deepest hidden knowledge and bring it to the surface again. Do not follow them, they do not want dogs, do not obey them, they set no rules.  Recognize your deepest self in their words and let your True Being emerge. Their Word is  the same Truth that  lives deep inside of you but has been buried and covered over by useless information for many years. Throwing out your learned nonsense makes place for the Emptiness or Void that is required for Gods Wisdom to enter. 

Imagine an engine block of  a car, or a plastic housing for a telephone, or a pillar supporting a house, or an ice cube. These things have been made in molds. A mold is an empty space in the shape of the thing wanted. A liquid substance is put in the mold where it takes the shape of the cavity. The liquid substance, be it hot plastic, molten iron, concrete or water solidifies inside the mold which is then opened for the object to emerge. The item could not come into existence without the emptiness of the mold. The same is true for what you call “God’s” Wisdom. This what you call “God”  is Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Creativity, Perfect Compassion and Love, it can only enter you when you create  space for it. As long as you are full of thoughts and ideas of what you call God or Allah or Brahman or Jehovah, It can not enter you. It needs a totally virgin, empty mind. Does not the Bible begin with the words: In the beginning there was NOTHING? That NO-THING is needed for “God”, which I call the Unified Field, or simply the Universe, to begin its Work. The Masters try to let you find that Void, that Emptiness in which “God” can manifest itself. Through you “God” wants to Be. But how can “God” enter you when your mind is full of so called “knowledge” (of religions for instance), which is believed by you, which you cling to as a barnacle to a ship. The space that “God” should occupy is already filled up. You have stashed years of useless information and your mind is churning the same information over and over and you reach no where. If only you could empty your head, let go of all you ever learned, all you believe in, all that you are presently “following”. You could then find the Light and be True and Free and an instrument for God to play.  

Hearing the dreadful news on the international radio waves, I realize how very fortunate we On St. Maarten/Martin are. Earthquakes, floodings, wars, murder and rape trials, ethnic and religious violence, the list is endless. The world has made hell for itself. Man against man in all its ugly forms. Why this is so, I cannot understand. How men have let themselves be so sickly indoctrinated with beliefs in superiority and so blinded as to fight other men, of the same race and country often, anyway, of the same planet, the globe. This silly idea of globalization has until now done nothing to bring peace and understanding to the planet. Neighbors are fighting as never before, weapon production is in full gear and the hate between nations goes on. The primitively is everywhere and civilized behavior is almost unheard, of. Efforts to curb violence are not made, to curb the fabrication of weapons, to educate for love and constructive environment protection, to broaden the minds of the young, none of it. Religions continue to shout their superior position over others, nations continue to reinforce borders. Immigration policies separate poor from rich, exploiting only those  it can use. Disgusting hypocrisies within beliefs, nations and industries are rampant. The USA fabricates *tools for human torture, high voltage stun guns and belts, for export to countries it condemns for human rights abuses... It bans tobacco at home, only to export it to third world countries... It does not want to curb its greenhouse gas emissions; instead it wants other countries to halt the development of the same, so it can continue to emit its overload of co2. Wish I was ignorant of these truths and live in blissful innocence Now I am bothered by the fact that I know at my fellow men are abusing their Own. And there is nothing I can do about it.

From the book: "Conversations with God, an uncommon dialogue", (available at our Jubilee Library) I quote a short passage, to show my readers that already five years ago, when he published his book in 1997, the author Neale Donald Walsh saw the downfall of the American "dream". I quote from page 88, as "God" speaks and explains:

 "Thoughts do create physical form--and when many people are thinking the same thing, there is a very high likelihood their thoughts will form a reality. (That is why "We'll pray for you" is such a powerful statement. There are enough testimonies to the effectiveness of unified prayer to fill a book.)  It is also true that un-prayerlike thoughts can create "effects." A worldwide consciousness of fear, for instance, or anger, or lack, or insufficiency, can create that experience--across the globe or within a given locale where those collective ideas are strongest.

 The Earth nation you call the United States, for example, has long thought itself to be a nation "under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." It is not a coincidence that this nation rose to become the most prosperous on earth. It is also not surprising that this nation is gradually losing all that it has worked so hard to create--for this nation seems to have lost its vision.

 The terms "under God, indivisible," meant just that--they expressed the Universal Truth of Unity; Oneness: a Matrix very difficult to destroy. But the Matrix has been weakened. Religious freedom has become religious righteousness bordering on religious intolerance. Individual freedom has all but vanished as individual responsibility has disappeared. The notion of individual responsibility has been distorted to mean "every man for himself." This is the new philosophy that imagines itself to be harkening back to the Early American tradition of rugged individualism.

 But the original sense upon which the American vision and the American dream was based, found its deepest meaning and its highest expression in the concept off Brotherly Love.  What made America great was not that every man struggled for his own survival, but that every man accepted individual responsibility for the survival of all.  America was a nation that would not turn its back on the hungry, would never say no to the needy, would open its arms to the weary and the homeless, and would share its abundance with the world.

Yet as America became great, Americans became greedy. Not all, but many. And, as time went on, more and more.

As Americans saw how good it was possible to have it, they sought to have it even better. Yet there was only one way to have more and more and more. Someone else had to have less and less and less. As greed replaced greatness in the American character, there was less room for compassion for the least among the people. The less fortunate were told it was their "own damned fault" if they didn't have more. After all, America was the Land of Opportunity, was it not? No one except the less fortunate found it possible to admit that America's opportunity was limited, institutionally, to those already on the inside track. In general, these have not included many minorities, such as those of certain skin color or gender.

Americans became arrogant internationally as well. As millions starved across the globe, Americans threw away enough food each day to feed entire nations. America was generous with some, yes--but increasingly her foreign policy came to be an extension of her own vested interests. America helped others when it served America to do so. (That is, when it served America's power structure, America's richest elite, or the military machine that protected those elite--and their collective assets.)

America's founding ideal-- Brotherly Love-- had been eroded. Now any talk of being "your brother's keeper" is met with a new brand of Americanism--a sharp mind toward what it takes to hold on to one's own, and a sharp word to any amongst the less fortunate who would dare to ask for their fair share, for their grievances to be redressed.

Each person must take responsibility for herself or himself--that is undeniable true. But America--and your world--can truly work only when every person is willing to stand responsible for all of you as a Whole."

America's lack of seeing and understanding itself has lead to the present situation.

I strongly recomend this and other books by Neale Donald Walsh to those that seek insight and wisdom. N.D.Walsh certainly has reached and is enlightened and his books can help to clearify many questions people have about spirituality and religion.

 Listen to the radio, what do we hear? Songs with young fresh male voices, trembling with emotions that sing: “What am I supposed to do without you”, and: “Lover come back”, and , “Please don’t go, I don’t want you to go”, and “Do not forsake me Oh, my darling”, and: “Baby give me one more chance”. These are lines from different songs sung by evidently troubled young men. Men who are left alone by their girl friends or women friends. Weak men. Men without guts. They are begging and asking and pleading their woman- friends to come back, to stay, not to leave them alone. Lamentations and expressions of weakness. None of these singers is able to be alone and take care of himself. Crying for the woman to return. Like children asking mommy to stay. Any woman with ears that hear will silently laugh at those helpless impotent men that beg and plead and pray to them.

 What is music supposed to be, and what do we want to hear? I always thought that music was an expression of joy, of celebration, of energy flowing from one heart to another. Not lamentations for lost lovers.

 Women that are left alone by men never beg them to come back. At least not in songs that I hear on the radio. Do you ever hear a woman sing that kind of begging words? On the contrary, they sing that they wish men love, when they go out alone into the world. They express their force, by singing that they can stand alone. Women are stronger, they get on with life.

 Men who read this, take notice. Are you a feeble one clinging to your woman’s skirts or are you a real man who can be alone and feel good alone? Because only than a woman will find you her equal and her love will be true. Otherwise her love is like pity, or mercy, coming from her inner source of mother power, to rescue a lost baby, those men in their suffering lonesome situation. When both partners have realized true love for the world, for everything and everybody else, when the man has become love, there is no need to beg for her presence, she will be attracted naturally. You know the saying: “If you look for a friend, be one”. The same applies for love. “If you want love, be love”. Once you are love, you cannot fall in it any more, and you cannot fall out of it any more. You can only rise in true love.

 Then they say,” A woman’s place is in the kitchen”, but chefs in good restaurant kitchens are always men.

 Men do not bleed naturally and in reality they are afraid of blood. Women take care of bleeding victims in hospitals, male nurses are rare. To hide their cowardice, men fight and compete and box and wrestle. They war and try to draw blood from each other. They deny women the natural fact that they are stronger, by calling them “baby”. Men cannot get baby’s, they are not equipped for that. So, most men are baby’s themselves, most of their lives, wanting a mother-like girlfriend or wife to take care of them. When she has enough of mothering and bothering to care for him, and finally goes her way, he cries and begs and laments. Worse, often he becomes violent and tries to hurt her and scare her into staying, by physical force.

 Listen to the radio and hear the lamentations and identify if you are a man who depends on your woman’s mother-power, or if you live independent and free, if you are a woman who mothers her man, or if you both are real lovers, and together for the joy of life, for the celebration of living.

 This observation will help you to evolve into your Higher Self and to become the: One You Want To Be. To Be Who You Really Are.

There are a few fundamental things to be understood. First, a man and a woman are on the one hand halves of the other, and on the other hand, opposite polarities. Their being opposites attracts them to each other. The farther away they are, the deeper will be the attraction; the more different from each other they are, the more will be the charm and beauty and attraction. But there lies the whole problem. ten they come close, they want to come closer, they want to merge into each other, they want to become one, a harmonious whole— but their whole attraction depends on opposition, and the harmony will depend on dissolving the opposition. Unless a love affair is very conscious, it is going to create great anguish, great trouble. All lovers are in trouble. The trouble is not personal; it is in the very nature of things. They would not have been attracted to each other— they call it falling in love— they can not give any reason why they have such a tremendous pull towards each other. They are not even conscious of the underlying cause hence a strange thing happens, the happiest lovers are those who never meet. Once they meet, the same opposition that created attraction b becomes a conflict. On each small point, their attitudes are different although they speak the same language, they cannot understand each other. The way a man looks at the world is different from a woman. For example, a man is interested in far away things — in the future of humanity, in the faraway stars, whether there are living beings on other planets or not. A woman simply giggles at the whole nonsense. She is only interested in a very small closed circle— in the neighbors, in the family, in who is cheating his wife, whose wife has fallen in love with the chauffeur. Her interest is very local and very human. She is not worried about reincarnation; neither is she concerned about life after death. Her concern is more pragmatic. She is concerned with the present, here and now. Man is never here and know He is always some where else. He has strange occupations— reincarnation, life after death. If both partners are conscious of the fact that it is a meeting of oppositions, that there is no need to make it a conflict, then there is a great opportunity to understand the totally opposite point of view and absorb it. Then the life of a man and a woman can become a beautiful harmony. Otherwise it is a continuous fight. There are holidays. One cannot continue to fight twenty four hours a day, one needs a little rest too— a rest to get ready for a new fight. But it is one of the strangest phenomena that for thousands of years men and women have been living together, yet they are strangers. They go on giving birth to children, but still they remain strangers. The feminine approach and the masculine approach are so opposed to each ether that unless a conscious effort i5 made, unless it becomes your meditation, there is no hope of having a peaceful life.  Those are the words of Osho , late enlightened spiritual leader. Next time more , as letters should be short and to the.

There are a few fundamental things to be understood. First, a man and a woman are on the one hand halves of the other, and on the other hand, opposite polarities. Their being opposites attracts them to each other. The farther away they are, the deeper will be the attraction; the more different from each other they are, the more will be the charm and beauty and attraction. But there lies the whole problem. ten they come close, they want to come closer, they want to merge into each other, they want to become one, a harmonious whole— but their whole attraction depends on opposition, and the harmony will depend on dissolving the opposition. Unless a love affair is very conscious, it is going to create great anguish, great trouble. All lovers are in trouble. The trouble is not personal; it is in the very nature of things. They would not have been attracted to each other— they call it falling in love— they can not give any reason why they have such a tremendous pull towards each other. They are not even conscious of the underlying cause hence a strange thing happens, the happiest lovers are those who never meet. Once they meet, the same opposition that created attraction b becomes a conflict. On each small point, their attitudes are different although they speak the same language, they cannot understand each other. The way a man looks at the world is different from a woman. For example, a man is interested in far away things — in the future of humanity, in the faraway stars, whether there are living beings on other planets or not. A woman simply giggles at the whole nonsense. She is only interested in a very small closed circle— in the neighbors, in the family, in who is cheating his wife, whose wife has fallen in love with the chauffeur. Her interest is very local and very human. She is not worried about reincarnation; neither is she concerned about life after death. Her concern is more pragmatic. She is concerned with the present, here and now. Man is never here and know He is always some where else. He has strange occupations— reincarnation, life after death. If both partners are conscious of the fact that it is a meeting of oppositions, that there is no need to make it a conflict, then there is a great opportunity to understand the totally opposite point of view and absorb it. Then the life of a man and a woman can become a beautiful harmony. Otherwise it is a continuous fight. There are holidays. One cannot continue to fight twenty four hours a day, one needs a little rest too— a rest to get ready for a new fight. But it is one of the strangest phenomena that for thousands of years men and women have been living together, yet they are strangers. They go on giving birth to children, but still they remain strangers. The feminine approach and the masculine approach are so opposed to each ether that unless a conscious effort i5 made, unless it becomes your meditation, there is no hope of having a peaceful life.  Those are the words of Osho , late enlightened spiritual leader. Next time more , as letters should be short and to the.

Who is the God of Random? It is the God that many St. Maarteners believe in.

Those that buy lottery tickets and numbers, those that visit casinos and and pray that the God of Random will favor them.

Devoutly they look every day first at the page that shows the winning numbers. Eddy Williams announces with his graveyard voice those numbers, more serene than a prayer to the Virgin Mary, every day on the radio. It is so serious that a nationwide industry is built around the worshiping of the God of Random. Worship booths are abundantly placed at every strategic corner of the land, not a mile can you travel without seeing one or other sect represented. At those booths you can pay your offering and sacrifice your contribution so that maybe the God of Random will favor you with money. All over is the God represented? The God of Random voted for me as I could not make up my mind who to vote for. Who of the candidates merits my confidence? If I look at what the politicians have accomplished the last few years, I worry so much that my ulcer starts to play up.

 Here goes: Mullet Bay problem still not solved, road markings not done, no white lines, domestic violence not made a major criminal offense, mareachausee still not invited back to help curb crime, still nothing done at the road over the St.Peter hill straight into Marigot, which would be a real improvement, instead Link One Phase Two, ending up at the same bottleneck down the hill at Cole Bay, where still no roundabout is planned, the sewage still running wild at the Middle Region road, Dutch Quarter area still looking worse than the fourth world, the lagoon still too polluted too swim in it. And more signs of disastrous conduct by politicians.

So I made 23 scraps of paper and numbered them, folded them and put them in a box, shook it well and choose one . Voila, my vote was decided by the God of Random who is so fervently worshipped in this country. This God decides which team starts at international football( soccer) matches when the umpire flips a coin. When on a narrow road two cars face each other and none wants to give way, the God of Random should be asked to decide who should move first, by flipping a coin in the air and catching it, lay it flat down on the other hand. The stubbornness of drivers is ridiculous and childish. The mentality of the people is so immature; one wonders what will become of the country once it is on its own... The God of Random certainly should be worshipped, as only He knows the outcome.

A conversation with a young American girl who is having a relation with an older man. She is quit bold and I try to transmit or convey her style as close as possible.

I’ve been reading advises many times and I find that you always advice against us, young women, or girls, having relationships with much older men. Where did you get that negative position from? Who are you, and where do you come from? Are you giving your advice in the interest of the Caribbean young people or are you an egotistic woman who just wants to rule her own style?  Most people may not know, but fact is that when He got born, Bob Marley’s black Jamaican mother was 17 and his white English father was 52. He was three times her age! My question is, will any such couple’s child be like Bob Marley, Saintly and making wonderful music for all people? Will history repeat itself? From Bob Marley’s parents we learn that the most unlikely alliance can give the most wonderful result. Will you stop advising against young women making love with older men now that you have also learned the Truth about Bob? Or will you continue preventing possible Stars coming into the world? Any way,I will make love to my very sweet old man for he is a young spirit in an old body, that’s all.

Young black with old white