Dubai's modern and post-modernization

 

I had just finished having my lunch at the metro station. There a philipino lady was serving mer some delicious indonesion cuisine. I had a conversation with her a few days back on how dubai is becoming so multicultural that we are eventually heading into postmodernity. This is a startling discovery for me, because I have been against the modern emphasis in dubai for a long time. But to slowly start to discover post-modern influences heading into the country is quite something. The interesting thing about dubai’s rapid modernization and now potentially post-modernization, is that dubai is still completely ethnocentric. If dubai continues at a rapid pace into-postmodernity as it did into modernity. We are going to have a very interesting mix going on in dubai. The culture wars as we know it would take on a completely new dimension in dubai, whose laws are governed by Shariah law. Which is very interesting when you look at the global challenges we face, and dubai could play a major role in meeting some of those challenges.  ---> More to come.  

What is your idea of heaven?

What is your idea of heaven? What would you really like happen if you can make it happen? Those are the words of Alan Watts. And this is our assignment.

 

Is there a heaven up in the sky, or is heaven down here on earth. Or is it both in heaven and on earth. Which one would you prefer? An earthly heaven or a heavenly heaven.

 

I know that I would much rather live on earth and make earth into heaven, because heaven is already heaven and that’s not that interesting. Heaven is obviously very interesting, but what does heaven look like. How good can heaven become. Because if heaven is really heaven, then wouldn’t that have to mean that I could get better forever.

 

What would heaven look like if I was able to manifest it. What kind of heaven would I create. How would I make it. I think I would make it so that anyone could enter. But I would try to stop people from not coming into heaven. I would leave them as they were. I would let them grow at their own pace. I would much prefer if they came to heaven, but I want them to feel like they have free will.

My life as an aspiring poker pro

I have spent the last 3 or 4 days in a state of constant movement. It all happened when I decided I was going to try and become a professional poker player. My life was lit up with the thrill of possibility. I’ve always wanted to challenge the status quo, and I was doing it in every dimension but in the dimension of money. And money is what this world respects, unfortunately. But never the less I am here. I found a way through the mess and the rubble of this world.

The thing is if you want to challenge the status quo you have to be willing to challenge everything. In the past the spiritual life did not include money. This was the traditional approach, they relied on donations from outside parties. And even to this day many spiritual organizations require donations from outside parties. Of course this is evolving as we do. Because in the past the best relationship to money in spiritual circles was no relationship. And that still is the best relationship to money. But no relationship doesn’t stop there, no relationship becomes right relationship.

The evolutionary universe

The evolutionary universe comes in two different shades. The first is the view of traditional enlightenment, and it is a view or a perspective. The other is the view of evolutionary enlightenment which is also a view and a perspective. The main point that evolutionaries are making is that we have to have a view of reality. I think this is true in some cases. But I don’t think we always have to have a view of some sort. Because if it is true that we always have a view than we don’t need to have a view in order to have a view. That is one of the eight fold path in Buddhism, no view is right view. This has similarities in evolutionary and the traditional form of evolutionary. Where the goal is always either right view or no view. The goal in evolutionary is right view,  but the way to get there is through no view. The way to get to no view in the traditional approach is also no view, all though that no view leads to right view, but it doesn’t lead to evolution.