Everything Almost Works

Once Upon A Time...

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T   Thousands who converted to vegetarianism for health, environmental and ethical reasons were lead to believe, by a ton of health literature, that soy was their protein salvation. Google: soy phytoestrogens problems.

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     Followers of a famous, deceased Tibetan Rinpoche finally got to meet the young man who was touted as his reincarnation.  The young man basically told everyone he thought the Tibetan rituals were a bunch of superstitious gobbledy-gook and he just wanted to be everyones' friend.

·   Marxist Communism sounds great on paper. Nothing even remotely close to it has ever been practiced by any nation on earth.

·    Virtually every pharmaceutical product advertisement on commercial television lists more potentially dangerous side effects than benefits of the advertised drug.

·   You're so committed to health excellence that you take up running marathons, only to read that serious long distance runs a high risk of harming the right side valves in the heart.

·   An attractive young couple co-author a best selling diet book which proclaims in the most enthusiastic terms that a mostly raw vegan diet of fresh organic fruits and vegetables is the ONLY way to be truly healthy. A few years later, without even blushing, they publish another book proclaiming that ya gotta have meat to be healthy.

·   You commit to a meditation path, led by an enlightened master who becomes involved in sex scandals with half a dozen female students.

·   Millions of bottles of synthetic vitamin C are sold every year. No one ever shows you the stark photographic differences between a molecule of synthetic C and one of organic C.  

·   This list so barely scratches the surface intems of frustrations, setbacks, challenges and disappointments which beset us all, that one cannot help but conclude...

"The universe is not here to satisfy your desires.  It is here to wake you up."     - Eckhart Tolle

If Tolle is correct, what are we  to infer about embodiment in a space-time continuum if awakening and the satisfaction of desires are not compatible?

I have no idea. I'm just asking.