Buddhism.....eventually

Not much good for anything else...

what is he good for, what can he do?

Ask the ragged man trying to get a few

pesos selling newspapers on the sidewalk,

motionless like a human kiosk. He doesn't 

know.  

So much depends on causes and

conditions, where you were born and

in what shape, the time in history. It's

not random....more like fate: the Buddhists

call it karma; cause and effect, laws of 

nature that aren't affected by the seeming

discontinuity of time. Nobody gets away 

with anything.

This is why the meek shall inherit the earth:

because they'll be all that's left after the evil

beings have been reborn in hell.

Anything you can imagine has occurred or

will occur in the universe somewhere...that's

why they call it the universe. No matter what

paradise you inhabit, no matter what torments

you experience in the lowest depths of 

existence, it will change to something else

eventually, since we have forever.

So, why bother?

Wouldn't it be better if the continuous struggle

ended? You know, the struggle to make things 

the way you want, the struggle to avoid pain,

the struggle to achieve a perpetual motion 

machine whose only  function is to operate

smoothly?

Well, that's what Buddha did...(how many 

times do I have to tell you?)...he found the

end to the struggle and the cure for suffering,

and millions of people have been finding the

same for themselves for the last 2500 years.

It's that clear and simple.

So, as the bumper sticker reads:  

"Buddhism: Eventually."