MENDACIOUS RELIGIOUS
"TEACHINGS" AND PSEUDO-WISDOM
There are those who would "comfort" us with
"teachings" such as these:
"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing
that you do not necessarily require happiness." - William Saroyan
and worse still:
"And this is the noble truth of the arising of sorrow. It arises
from craving...
And this is the noble truth of the stopping of sorrow. It is the
complete stopping of that craving...being emancipated from it." - The Pali
Canon
While there is certainly much wisdom in being emancipated from the
craving for incidentals and luxuries, one can hardly be expected to be
"emancipated" for the craving for bread or love.
The resignation with which we have been taught to regard our
being damned to living lives and then going silently to our graves without ever
knowing the love we need is beyond perversion, beyond cruelty, on the part of
those in whose diseased minds and twisted hearts the concept of resignation
arose and those who perpetuate the lie.
Never can the need for love be surrendered and there can be no
emancipation from it any more than we can be emancipated from out need for
physical sustenance.
And it is you men who must be the first to demand and reclaim those
most basic rights. Women of their nature never can become very alienated from
the need for love. We transvalue it into depression, we sublimate it
into saint-like dutifulness, but the feeling is never very far from conscious
awareness and we can, and do, access it.
It
is primarily the men who have been emasculated of their love. The fight, then,
must be primarily yours.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan,
Tzfat, Israel