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Burning all
self-help books would be the best thing to happen to potential
self-help readers, from "Everything I Learned in Kindergarten"
(which was basically nothing--besides, who remembers kindergarten or
wants to?), to Buddhist breathing (and breathing is heavily
overrated in life - try stopping breathing for awhile and you'll see
what I mean), let alone prior lives, future lives (try this one for
a change) and then there are these readers who are basically beyond
help, and the writers who were squirrels in prior lives and still
haven't gotten over gathering nuts. People should concentrate more
on getting lost rather than being found. Realizing that 90% of the
world is starving and couldn't give a shit about South Beach or
Atkins, that Eastern philosophies are just geography and that by and
large, medicating is just as good as meditating, it would be a
better place.
"Tabuddhisms" embraces all of this wondrous, unphilosphical,
sarcastic views with irreverence rather than dignity and integrity
(two other overrated items). "Tabuddhisms" realizes one doesn't have
to "see the light", better to live in darkness.
So, take a moment, read a few, know that life and death really are
different as are all people; no, we are not all related, I have no
desire to meet Kevin Bacon ... and if all of the wasted shelf space
throughout Borders, Barnes & Noble and all bookstores dedicated to
self-help books, motivational books, spiritual lifting books, etc.,
were turned into an area for wine and beer tasting, life would be a
hell of a lot better.
Cheers!
David Worby |
