When a puppet on YouTube makes just about as much sense as any spiritual book I've read, or any mystical guru I've heard, that says a lot.
About what, I've got no idea. But whatever it is, The Truth According to Puppetji vaguely gestures in its direction, insofar as a puppet with arms stuck to rods is able.
I browsed through several of Puppetji's video socksangs. The first one I saw, the most recent, was my favorite. "Puppetji vs. The Secret."
No contest, really. Puppetji wins. And it won't cost you $29.95 to learn his take on The Truth.
You can have anything you want. But I ask, "Who is wanting?"
Who desires the need to want?
Who wants and desires the need to want to be needed and to desire to want to need something it only thinks it desires to want? [a rough transcription; Puppetji talks damn fast]
The ego.
The truth of who you are is…nothing.
So getting the necklace, or the new car, or the house, or the hot crazy Tantric sexual relationship—all merely feeding the ego. And will not bring you happiness.
The desire to have more things and more stuff just perpetuates the grand illusion.
Therefore creating the desire to want more and more desire, and more and more things, and more and more stuff, ultimately leading to…bankruptcy.
And then more suffering. And more desire. And more and more desire not to suffer. Therefore creating more suffering.
Pretty good. For a puppet, or indeed for anybody, the little guy makes more than a little sense.
Puppetji would suggest to you that peace lies not in our past or future, for they are illusions created by the mind. Peace, true freedom and LOVE are not found by following our addictive patterns, for they are but temporary remedies for that which has no meaning and needs no cure.
You will never find that which you seek in any thing outside your temple...or someone else's temple, or Shirley Temple. YOU are that which you seek. Stop the search and remember this... You are not special, you are not important. You are LOVE and Love is all.
Here's his "The Secret" video.
Yes Puppetji is very fine!
And wise too and funny!
I'm gonna Love Him!
Sita
Posted by: Sita | April 03, 2007 at 12:42 AM
Cute. A wise old caucasian man with a long white beard. Kooky!
And my ego is the bad guy again! My ego loves this, off in the corner, sniffling and dreaming of ice cream.
Me: "Yes! Desire is suffering! Just being Love will allow me to bypass the stupidity of my former struggles."
Ego: "I can easily match my syntactical ability to the Puppetji creator's dialectic! And that puppet has a wart. A wart! Ha Ha! How juvenile and simplistic compared to my understanding of philosophy. I am clearly better!"
Elves: "Whatdaya call them? Oh, Christmas lights. Great wart."
Posted by: Edward | April 03, 2007 at 06:26 AM
I'm loving this Sant.
Indeed, I find him darn socksuwool.
Sorry.
:o)
Honestly, it's rather sad that we live in a world where a puppet makes more sense than the worlds largest religious leaders & the people that follow them?
Jeez, I think the laughter's turned to tears for me just now.....
Posted by: Manjit | April 03, 2007 at 12:37 PM
This is a good puppet. Almost enough to make me want to take up ventriloquism again.
Posted by: Paul Martin | April 03, 2007 at 05:30 PM
That was great! Very wise words indeed.
Posted by: kay | April 12, 2007 at 05:49 PM