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FUNdamentalist
Humanifesto:
How to Become Fooly Aware
by Swami
Beyondananda
I have
long been a supporter of the human potential movement.
No matter what I see on the 6:00 news, I still feel we
have the potential to be human. But how do we
actually actualize our humanity? How do we
humanifest our full potential? Many teachers are
telling us that the shift is already taking place.
Perhaps you have felt the gears grinding in your own
karma. Well, there is no better way to lubricate
your transmission than with laughter. That is why
so many formerly-serious people have joined the humorin'
potential movement and become FUNdamentalists -- accent
on "fun".
Like
many of you, I began as a seeker of wisdom. I came
of age during the sects revolution, and I explored all
kinds of kinky sects. But I never felt fulfilled.
I finally saw the light when I woke up one morning with
a sugar hangover at a biker crash-pad. I was
wearing an orange leather vest and reeked of incense.
Yes, I had become a Harley Krishna. I took a good
look at myself in the mirror, and that's when
enlightning struck and I found foolfillment. I
became fooly-realized the moment I realized that I was a
fool -- and there was nothing to do about it but laugh.
And I've been preaching FUNdamentalism ever since.
The
Five Fundamentals of FUNdamentalism
1. Life Is a
Joke --
But God Is Laughing With Us,
Not At Us.
God is
tuned to the Comedy Channel, and we are His Funniest
Home Videos. We take turns being comedian and
straight man (and yes, a gay woman can be a straight man
-- it happens all the time), so we get the fool spectrum
of experience. And we have free choice. We
get to choose whether or not we laugh. While we
FUNdamentalists are ardently pro-laugh, we are
pro-choice as well. We honor every human being's
right to not be amused. But I figure, why resist a
Farce that is greater than any of us? If life is a
sitcom, might as well sit calm and enjoy it.
2. Fun Is
Fundamental.
FUNdamentalists
believe that life is fundamentally fun -- that
underneath all the stress, distress, and negativity,
there is an deep well of joy. Each time laughter
bubbles up from that well, we experience deep wellness.
A fooly-aware person need only look in the mirror to
begin laughing. So play to God daily. Surrender to
the Farce, and smile... you're on Candid Karma.
3. A Laugh
Track Has Been Provided.
The
FUNdamentalist scriptures tell us that on the Eighth
Day, God saw the world was funny and created Laughter.
And since we were humoring Him, He decided to humor us.
So He provided a laugh track so we could laugh along.
But when things get serious, we lose track of the laugh
track. Fortunately, the best way to overcome
gravity is with levity. We can use the
levitational pull to help us rise above whatever is
bringing us down -- and help us get back on track.
4. We Are
Put In the Material World
To Get More Material.
Spirit
is immaterial, so it must materialize to experience
anything. Without material existence, there would
be nothing to laugh about and no one to do the laughing.
We have been given the human jestive system to turn the
material of life into laughter. When we laugh, God
laughs. And when we laugh with God, we are using
the spiritual to heal the material. To be happy in
life, you must be able to take a joke. And if you
can leave a few as well, all the better.
5.
Nonjudgment Day Is At Hand!
When a
majority of human beings would rather laugh than
condemn, we will have an uncritical mass, and this will
usher in Nonjudgment Day. On Nonjudgment Day, we
will all win beauty contests. Lawyers will
disappear, and all our trials will be over. On
this glorious day when enlightning strikes, our clown
chakras will open, we will become fooly-realized, and we
will finally get the joke. The world will stop --
and everyone will get off.
Read
also: "Who
Is Swami Beyondananda?"
and
more articles from the
Swami
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