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The last question:
Question 8
BELOVED MASTER, OKAY, GIVE IT TO ME STRAIGHT. CAN GOD REALLY EXIST IN AMERICA?
LEAVING TOMORROW, I GET A LITTLE NERVOUS REALIZING HOW SERIOUS THE WORLD TENDS
TO BE, AND WELL, YOU KNOW, GOD TOO. SO WOULD YOU GIVE ME ONE OF YOUR FUDDY-DUDDY
JOKES TO SHARE WITH HIM JUST IN CASE WE MEET?
Toshen, you forget this word ’him’. God is not a he, God is a she. If you go with this idea that he is a he, you
will never find him. That’s how people go on missing him. They go on looking for him as if he is a man, and he
has changed himself long ago.
Colonel Stanford, a staunch segregationist, died and somehow made his way to heaven. A week later his friend,
Colonel Beauregard, departed and was also allowed to get past the Pearly Gates. The two of them met.
”Never had any doubt we would make it,” said Colonel Beauregard, ”but now that we did, tell me, how are
things up here?”
”Not bad,” answered Colonel Stanford, ”but I would advise you to watch your step. I saw God the other day
and she is a Negress.”
And not only that he is a she, she is a Negress a black woman. So if you are really in search of God in America,
remember this.
And then you will have to learn a few things. If you meet a black woman you will have to learn some art, you
will have to learn to be a little like a black man, otherwise there will be no communication, no communion.
God has changed. He was tired of being male and white. Everybody gets tired of being the same. And people
are still thinking that he is the old. You are worshipping old photographs, you are carrying old albums. No
wonder very few people find him.
Now think of God as a woman. And God can only be a woman; the very idea of God being a man is the male
chauvinist idea, it is the idea of man. The Christian trinity has not a single woman in it. Look at the nonsense:
they have made even a place for the Holy Ghost. Now, who is this Holy Ghost? The trinity would not have
missed much if there was no Holy Ghost, but the trinity looks a little ugly without a woman. The father is there,
the son is there, and where is the mother? Do you think God is gay?
This is man’s egoistic projection. Remember: the she contains he, but the he does not contain she. Man is
born out of a woman, but no man can give birth to a woman. It is natural to think of God as woman as mother,
not as father. That is a fascist idea.
It is not accidental that Germans call their country ”fatherland.” Nobody calls their country ”fatherland.”
Everybody calls his country ”motherland” that seems to be right except the Germans... they call it ”fatherland.”
God is a mother, a motherly phenomenon. This whole existence is motherly. And God is far softer than man
can ever be, far more vulnerable, far more open. God is the womb of existence. The whole existence comes out
of the womb.
So, Toshen, drop this idea of ”he” and ”him”; think of ”she” and ”her.” And remember: he is tired of being
white, he is no longer white. He is black now, and he is enjoying being black, because very few people are able to
find him now. Even if you come across him, you think, ”It is just a nigger.” Even if he knocks on your door you
will not open the door.
And if you meet him, you are asking me that you would like to tell him some joke. Tell him this joke:
”What makes you black men such good lovers?” asked the white employer of Kinney, the chauffeur.
”The trouble with you white folks is that you just go in there and rush, rush, rush, and before you know it, it
is all over,” said Kinney. ”Now the way us black folks do it is get in there, take it easy, make long strokes, talk
sweet a while, stop a while, take our time, then some more slow long strokes, nice and cool-like.”
That night whitey climbed into bed with his wife and began making love to her exactly as Kinney had suggested.
After twenty minutes of sheer delight she gasped, ”My God, where did you learn to screw like a black man?”
Enough for today.
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 12
Chapter 1 No-self Actualization
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A MAN IS NOT BORN TO MASTERY. A MASTER IS NEVER PROUD. HE DOES NOT TALK DOWN
TO OTHERS. OWNING NOTHING, HE MISSES NOTHING.
HE IS NOT AFRAID. HE DOES NOT TREMBLE. NOTHING BINDS HIM. HE IS INFINITELY FREE.
SO CUT THROUGH THE STRAP AND THE THONG AND THE ROPE. LOOSEN THE FASTENINGS.
UNBOLT THE DOORS OF SLEEP AND AWAKE.