BUFF denounces "HIMALAYAN BITCHES"

Alright, lookit. Those shining Himalayan bitches are always mouthing off about spiritual illumination. Well, Buff ain't mouthin' off... BUFF IS MOUTHING ON!

If you got that "shamballa sunburn" then Buff Striding will squeeze out the lotion for YOU.

Those Himalayan bitches want you to watch yer tongue. They start to chatter when you say that you're "Not bad," "Okay," or "Fine." They want a better answer. They want you to consicously use your language to rescript your psychology. Say you're wonderful -- and back it up with details. Say you're having a great day. After all, life is really light, love and divinity -- so who are you to go around mindless muttering conventional phrases that trap you in the self-defintion of being just barely above terrible. Or, if you're lucky, neutral and productive.

How are you today, Bob?
I'm fine. Not bad. Okay. Same old, same old...

Sounds awful.

Sounds awful? Ftaghn! Those happiness bitches floating in their aether communes don't know what to shake a stick at. They're the ones who are giving evidence of chronic depression. You just ask ol' Buff Striding and he'll tell you all about it.

After all -- why be SOOOO desperate to say that things are great? Are you that afraid of the abyss that you'll fall into if you let life get toehold on your heart? Are you that manipulative and controlling that you need be THE DECIDER OF YOUR FEELINGS? Do you think you're sooooo superior to everyone else that their description of themselves is evidence of insanity and spiritual ignorance? What the hell is your problem?

I mean - think about.

No, really think about it.

Are you done? Okay, then stop wasting my time and lets move on. You are trying to be"great". You're trying to be "not bad." You want to overcome the suffering condition egoic existence -- not force your idea of virtue onto the unknowable hyperspace beyond the mind. You don't TELL IT that it's wonderful. You acknowlege that it is NOT bad. It is not just some Disneyland of soul -- it is the authentic condition of reality that opens into us (and out of us, and as us) when we release the core illusion upon which our suffering rests. Your goal is not to give the universe a make-over -- it is to STOP TURNING THE SUFFERING ON.

"Fine" and "Okay" are descriptions of a teleological (i.e. we're aiming at it) tranquility which otherwise exceeds our ability to describe. It is not merely the human idea of "good". It is unknown dimension that IS beyond the limitations of mortality.

We are much close to it when we are "not bad" then when we are "super." We intuit its nature more direclty when we are "fine" than when we are "fantastic."

Now, of course, it may develop into various glorious epiphanies... but let's not jump over our own knees on the way to the cookie store.

Love,
Buff S.