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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Subject: Smokey the [sic] Bear Sutra
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.225338.7166@siemens.com>
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- Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:53:38 GMT
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- Date: Thu 9 Jul 87 18:06:15-EDT
- From: Chris Newell <CN08@TE.CC.CMU.EDU>
- Subject: Smokey the Bear
- To: ad0r@TE.CC.CMU.EDU
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- SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA
-
-
- Once in the Jurassic, about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in
- this corner of the Infinite Void gave a great Discourse to all the assembled
- elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, the flying
- beings, and the sitting beings -- even grasses, to the number of thirteen
- billion, each one born from a seed, were assembled there: a Discourse
- concerning Enlightenment on the Planet Earth.
-
- "In some future time, there will be a continent called America. It will have
- great centers of power called such as Pyramid Lake, Walden Pond, Mt. Rainier,
- Big Sur, Everglades, and so forth; and powerful nerves and channels such as
- Columbia River, Mississippi River, and Grand Canyon. The human race in that
- era will get into troubles all over its head, and practically wreck everything
- in spite of its own strong intelligent Buddha-nature."
-
- "The twisting strata of the great mountains and the pulsings of great
- volcanoes are my love burning deep in the earth. My obstinate compassion is
- schist and basalt and granite, to be mountains, to bring down the rain. In
- that future American Era, I shall enter a new form to cure the world of
- loveless knowledge that seeks with blind hunger, and minless rage eating food
- that will not fill it."
-
- And he showed himself in his true form of
-
- SMOKEY THE BEAR.
-
- A handsome smokey-colored brown bear standing on his hind legs, showing that
- he is aroused and watchful.
-
- Bearing in his right paw the Shovel that digs to the truth beneath
- appearances, cuts the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the
- fires of greed and war.
-
- His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display -- indicating that all
- creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits,
- chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.
-
- Wearing the blue work overalls symbolic of slaves and laborers, the countless
- men oppressed by civilization that claims to save but only destroys.
-
- Wearing the broad-brimmed hat of the West, symbolic of the forces that guard
- the Wilderness, which is the Natural State of the Dharma and the True Path of
- man on earth; all true paths lead through the mountains.
-
- With a holo of smoke and flame behind, the forest fires of the kali-yuga,
- fires caused by the stupidity of those who think things can be gained and lost
- whereas in truth all is contained vast and free in the Blue Sky and Green Earth
- of One Mind.
-
- Round-bellied to show his kind nature and that the great earth has food
- enough for everyone who loves and trusts here.
-
- Trampling underfoot wasteful freeways and needless suburbs; smashing the
- worms of capitalism and totalitarianism.
-
- Indicating the Task: his followers, becoming free of cars, houses, canned
- food, universities, and shoes, master the Three Mysteries of their own Body,
- Speech, and Mind, and fearlessly chop down the rotten trees and prune out the
- sick limbs of this country America and then burn the leftover trash. Wrathful
- but Calm, Austere but Comic, Smokey the Bear will Illuminate those who would
- help him; but for those who would hinder or slander him, HE WILL PUT THEM OUT.
-
- Thus his great Mantra:
-
- Namah samanta vajranam chanda maharoshana
- Sphataya hum traka ham mam
-
- "I DEDICATE MYSELF TO THE UNIVERSAL DIAMOND,
- BE THIS RAGING FURY DESTROYED"
-
- And he will protect those who love woods and rivers, Gods and animals, hobos
- and madmen, prisoners and sick people, musicians, playful women, and hopeful
- children.
-
- And if anyone is threatened by advertising, air pollution, or the police,
- they should chant SMOKEY THE BEAR'S SPELL:
-
- DROWN THEIR BUTTS
- CRUSH THEIR BUTTS
- DROWN THEIR BUTTS
- CRUSH THEIR BUTTS
-
- And SMOKEY THE BEAR will surely appear to put the enemy out with his
- vajra-shovel.
-
- Now, those who recite this Sutra and then try to put it in practice
- will accumulate merit as countless as the sands of Arizona and Nevada,
- Will help save the planet Earth from total oil slick,
- Will enter the age of harmony of man and nature,
- Will win the tender love and caresses of men, women, and beasts
- Will always have ripe blackberries to eat and a sunny spot under a
- pine tree to sit at, AND IN THE END WILL WIN HIGHEST PERFECT ENLIGHTENMENT.
-
- Thus we have heard.
-
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