MythTickle by Justin Thompson for May 10, 2024

Poor karma!

Darned if you do. Darned if you don’t…….

Quick learner.

And Boody just wants to enjoy the flowers.

Appreciating and valuing nature isn’t a virtue?

The truly superior person does virtue…like appreciating the beauty of the material world.

That’s the hook. We no longer get our spiritual bearings from a teacher, but from books. Of course there are too many of us and too few wise teachers, so it has to be.

Ha! Spot on! So much for random.

Hoist by her own petard.

Yep. Material things are not all equally good or bad.

It’s OK to have material tings. Just remember they are not the big deal so many make of them. After all, the phone app warned Karma she was going overboard.

See the entry in chabad dot org “Finding G‑d in the Flowers”.

I remember when the Islamic State destroyed “The Buddhas of Bamiyan,” two ancient statues of Buddha in Afghanistan. Much of the world was aghast at the destruction of these giant statues of great historic and cultural importance. My memory is that some Buddhist leaders were a bit less outraged, pointing out that their religion downplayed the importance of material objects, including those statues.