Wow... I always enjoy reading what is maturing in you...!
I have no deep inner relationship with the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky or Twitter. I find a few Buddhist teachings meaningful and worthwhile, but beyond that, it's just a religion like all others that people live more or less consistently. I have long admired Chomsky (as an activist; I had no idea of his linguistic background until recently ;-)). - then during the Corona pandemic period he somehow galloped off. Twitter? Is that art or can it go away??? No one needs it, if you ask me.
I tend to see it similarly with everything else: Your care for family and friends, your close environment, is the neighbourly love that can realistically be lived. No one can solve all problems and save everyone who wants to be saved (or not). Those who try can only fail.
I find your idea of describing depressed people as truly enlightened interesting. Apart from the fact that I can hardly classify "normal" (Is "normal" the absence of mental abnormalities? And if so, who defines its limits?) - I like it. I'll have to think about it.
Flopdoodle — made up word. “Delusional Nincompoop” fits it best:)
I would not think depressed people to be “enlightened”—maybe just wiser to the b.s. of the human world. I guess the point I was trying to make to my daughter about Chomsky was that one cannot move multitudes to act if unable to convince his own progeny. People just cherry pick what they like from Chomsky anyway, and the people who do pick, don’t end up in power positions (at least in the United States). I have daughters who are deeply sensitive, however think and act in their own manner, far from my philosophy, as I believe it will be until some great change knocks us back to some life or death local need. The great illusion and nurturing of separation, atomization, individuality adds more and more chaos to a enormous human arrogance. No one depends on nature to make their ends meet.
I agree that established religions of the world have origins of great value. Vedanta philosophy comforts me. Briefly takes me away from the human all too human world of words and abstractions, to recognize shared experience among all stuff of universe. Dalai Lama is a grand human abstraction. Chomsky too. It’s spring in my neighborhood, and I prefer to watch the hungry birds , bursting buds and mating squirrels reveal their mysteries.
Not one of ’em wants me to read a newspaper or suck a tongue:)
Thank you so much for reading and keeping the gray matter charged!
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Always a pleasure! I would really like to have a coffee with you and philosophise about God and the world (or better: life) ;-))
Okay! I’ll pay for airfare. You get the coffee:)
Let me think about a "when" and "where"... ;-)) May be it becomes easier than we expect today.