The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12136 Message #94115
Posted By: Peter T.
11-Jul-99 - 11:55 AM
Thread Name: GENTLE TALE-Mostly BS-Add your 2 cents
Subject: RE: GENTLE TALE-Mostly BS-Add your 2 cents
Well, kat, if you can break your own rule about original integrity!
Sherry Aims, New Age Nurse, in the first watch of the night, remembered all her past lives, Sherry Aims, Assistant to Florence Nightingale, Sherry Aims, Helper of Mary Magdalene, Sherry Aims, Surgeon to the Court of Hatshupeth, Sherry Aims, Neanderthal Nurse, Sherry Aims, Australopithecene Nurse, Sherry Aims, Dinosaur Nurse, Sherry Aims, Cockroach Nurse, Sherry Aims, Plankton Nurse. She bowed carefully to all these previous Buddhas and bodhisattvas, and all those in the 10 directions. She made her mind into a great web of awareness, draping her consciousness in the Jeweled Net of Indra, in the circle of the dreamcatcher. Especially she chanted the great, the powerful, the all encompassing mantra to Tara, Mistress of all means, Woman of all ways, female principle of the ear of all compassion, Avolakitesvara. Like Lords and Buddhas before her, she conquered the first watch of the night. In the second watch of the night, Sherry Aims, New Age Nurse, moved from the realm of fiction into the realm of imagined fact, and pierced the great fable of existence to its depths. She grasped the incomparable realms of undertaking, of undergoing, of understanding. She felt that she was preparing for a new bodily existence, in the same moment as the great wheel of her mind was grinding towards escape from the kingdom of things. She contemplated the mystery of emptiness, as exemplified by Richard Gere's acting style. And so Sherry Aims conquered the second watch of the night. In the third watch of the night, as she moved from the realm of imagined fact into the outworks of true existence, Sherry Aims confronted the graveness of death, the horrors of the degradation of the body, the nightmares of sickness, the dooms of judgement, and summer teen movies. So shaken was she by this that she momently hesitated about the transition to the real , but persisted. In the heavens, millions upon millions of figures, reaching back through all levels and spheres of existence bowed in the direction of her struggle and her victory: Sherry Aims, New Age nurse. She vowed to nurse all beings from the emergence of existence till the arrival of Maitreya, the Future Lord, and to ensure their well-being here, and in endless realms. In the land of the spirit, her new digital chrysalis was forming about her aura. And so she conquered the third watch of the night. In the fourth watch of the night, Sherry Aims broke her digital chrysalis entered the analog world. She touched her foot down on the earth, and the pain of existence, the weight of gravity, shot through her, but she persisted. Endless eras of pain passed, and then she became used to walking on the path of suffering, and the pleasures of shopping. Thus passed the fourth watch of the night, and now, at the end of her journey, thus entered into life , Sherry Aims, New Age Nurse. (May all beings, fictional, imagined, and real, be liberated!)