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Red Glasses
Last night I was up late watching a film, enjoying some red wine at the same time. Towards the end of the film and the end of the glass, the glass slipped from hand and shattered on the tile floor. Bit miffed by that, since it was one of those glasses you get to keep after you finish the Dijon mustard it once contained (useful recycling; now I need to buy more Dijon).
Today, while reflecting on last night’s events, I remembered the dark red acrylic plastic glasses we had at the chalet in l’Esterel. How they were pretty much indestructible and ideal for growing kids. How I used to drink orange juice, 7-Up, and “Snow White” cream soda from them on summer afternoons. Drink hot chocolate from them in the morning. How they were a part of my life for 40 years. They never wore out, never broke. They were always there, ready for the next beverage.
The chalet is gone, sold now, as too the red glasses. But not broken.
Zen In All
There can be no god or gods without creating pain and war. For belief in deities creates nothing but division in men.
There does exist Good and Evil, but only as a result of the actions of man helping men or man helping himself.
Man must look into himself and the nature of fellow men. Ignore divining the divine, for claiming to understand divine thought leads to human misery.
There can be no one Faith, for otherwise we are all pagans and heretics to one another, for there will always be difference of opinion and interpretations of words and meaning, even among those of the same professed Faith.
If there be deity, would such expect prayer, worship, or sacrifice? Or would they more likely to be content that their mortal creations live, discover, and explore life.
If there be no deity, then a man claiming their existence wastes his life in the pursuit of nothing.
Whether deity be or not is of no matter, as neither answer can be clearly proved. Faith in either concept is wasted.
Best to understand our own nature and thoughts. How to balance the needs of ourself with those of many. Find Faith then in the good within ourself and in the nobility of man.
No man can be told what to believe or how to act, only learn informed choices, and thus left to his own mind in belief and action.
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