Keef and the Flower Ornament Scripture

Some say that we all make our own reality. Not really sure about that - maybe we just have some say in how we react. 

True?

There is a Buddhist ( Mahayana) text, the "Flower Ornament Scripture". I rarely get beyond the first chapter, which is rather long. Long because it seeks to list all the various Bodhisattvas who grace samsara with their presence, seeking the benefit of all. The text also tells us the various ways in which they themselves have realised enlightenment. One way only? Maybe the one way has infinite variety. 

The bodhisattvas have such beautiful names  as "Celestial King Banner of Miraculous Displays", "Delightful Universal Illumination" and "Sound of the Polar Mountain".

Bodhisattvas. Though wishing us well how do they appear to us?

So we are surrounded by such. And they all wish us well, and work for our well being.

Others though may well prefer to think themselves as being the target of Satan, let loose by the Sky God to taunt, test and trick us, this because the Sky God "wills that all be saved". Possibly they prefer the drama of it all and the concentration of the mind that such a belief demands. 

Dualistic battles certainly create drama

We all create our own reality?

 Just what is our "shadow"? Wild and ultimately benign? Or savage and destructive? A necessary part of us or that which must be destroyed?

Here is Keith Richards creating his own reality......

Rock on! In his autobiography "Life", Keef warns of those who want "a frozen frame". Yes indeed. Maybe a video would be better......

PS. Just adding a bit more, a few words of poetry read recently:- "Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars, and the fear of going down". (Antonio Machado)