"In the post-meditative experience become a child of illusion" is a slogan from the Tibetan mind training tradition. We engage the world as we experience it all the while realizing that reality is not as it seems to be.
Nixon would have made a reasonably good pope, but not nearly as good as Jimmy Carter. You need the phony smile and self-satisfaction to work in religion and Nixon just was too obviously at ill-ease with himself.
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For a moment there, I thought you were quoting me again :-)
ReplyDeleteI literally laughed out loud, MadPriest.
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it, though, you WOULD make a good Pope!
Nixon would have made a reasonably good pope, but not nearly as good as Jimmy Carter. You need the phony smile and self-satisfaction to work in religion and Nixon just was too obviously at ill-ease with himself.
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