I saw a news story about Pope Francis, chief pastor of the worldwide Catholic Church, wherein same-sex marriages cannot be blessed. He said they can’t be blessed because God can’t bless sin, but he should learn the Holy Teaching of heaven wherein all beings are blessed. Sex and sexual issues are not a new issue for the religion, but it supports an ongoing unrighteous position about it. If the act of loving does not harm anyone, what is the issue? The issue lies within the doctrine of the church and the pope and anyone else who has an issue with two people coming together in marriage. God and Goddess love and bless everyone, and such is the Holy Doctrine.

The Catholic Church along with the many branches of the Christian religion certainly treat females as subservient to males, which is certainly not the righteous position to take either. I am not sure what their issue is here since the Holy Teaching is equality, compassion for all loving breathing creatures.

The Catholic Church just like the many Christian branches do not condone the killing of animals and eating of meat. The problem here is that Christians do not know of Holy Doctrine because the church does not teach the Holy Doctrine. If they did, they would know of Holy Teaching of equality, compassion for all loving breathing creatures that cry.

Recently the pope met with the most revered Shiite Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in Najaf, Iraq, to urge peace between the two religions. Since both religions are sexist and dangerous and do not teach the Holy Doctrine of compassion for all loving breathing creatures that cry, such a marriage seems dangerous, but we pray for peace.

The moral teaching of heaven is not difficult to understand. I present it often enough, but here it is again. Compassion for all breathing creatures that cry is the Holy Way. Be a peaceful and caring person. Consume a vegetarian diet, and enjoy watching and listening to the creatures of the land, water, and air, and if one is suffering, care for them. Do not harm any creature. It does not matter if they have two feet, four feet, or no feet and speak in a language you do not understand, treat them kindly, so all can enjoy life upon the earth.

Here is a verse from the Veda you might not have heard.

You may have heard that a loving God dwells within mortals, but have you heard that to spread wide with the air to praise, the Goddess praises with light and thoughtful words to benefit all mortals.

The earth is a wonderful and beautiful place to live. The conditions are ideal, and support a great diversity of life. It seems that every nook and cranny supports living substances, and the same substance sustains all creatures. All creatures are mortal but live upon the same immortal air. It is the same for creatures of the air, land, and water. It is the same for creatures throughout, and similarly, creatures throughout the universe. It is the same everywhere in the universe because the same Divine Energy is everlasting and everywhere.

An artist is creative, unique, inspired, resourceful, and imaginative. To become similar to the Divine Artist is unique, but to inspire the substance sustaining all life for a resource to draw upon, along with the imagination, to create.

Here is a mantra from the Veda to be creative.

Divine Energy is creative and spreads with extraordinary power and wisdom to generate the beautiful shining universe and to fill up with the principal wind to fulfillment to maintain in the navel works the same.

The preeminent driver in people is the drive for happiness, and the heavenly breath comes to all creatures on the earth to enjoy life. The breath comes to all creatures of the three worlds, creatures of the water, land, and air, and the Holy Way is to care for all so that all can live happy.

When I am happy I smile, and I smile a lot. I am known as Smiley but I cannot smile on demand, only when happy. When young I would hear grandmother say that is does not take any more energy to smile than it does to frown. Whom that was directed toward is long forgotten, but I have never forgotten the words.

Recently I watched an episode of the old television show called Monk. Monk was a former detective often called on to help solve murders. He worked most closely with Captain Leland Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Randy Disher. Disher was a nice enough person, meant well, treated people kindly but was kind of a bumbler. In the show, someone asked Randy why he was so happy. He said that at an accident scene he saw a bumper sticker that said, “Happiness is a Choice,” and that was his aha moment. From that time on he chose to be happy, and in the same way, anyone can make that choice.

When I was young there was a man in the neighborhood who would stand at a somewhat busy intersection and wave to people in cars and say hi to those walking by. I would pick up newspapers to deliver at the same corner and talk to him. He had a mental issue so the conversation was basic, and even though he did not know very much his happiness and kindness made a big impression on me. I wondered if his state of obliviousness and peacefulness was a state of being to strive for.

A few years ago when I would visit my dad in Arizona I would stand on a corner with a stop sign with a woman who would wave to everyone driving by. I wake before dawn to chant mantras and after that I would join her. She woke before dawn to go to this corner and wave to people as a religious observance. She enjoyed it and those driving by seemed happy to see her and would wave to her or greet her. Kindness is a virtue, and to be kind to a stranger ups the chance of them being kind to you and others.

A person is better off approaching a stranger with a smile rather than a frown, approaching with happiness rather than discontent, peaceful rather than angry. Smiling and happiness are virtuous because they are uplifting to others. There is plenty of medical research on the negative health effects of depression and the positive effects of happiness, so in the long run, best to tread the path happy.

Here is a mantra from the Veda to bring a smile.

To cross the boundary of darkness clear perceptions break forth along with good fortune and a permanent smile, to rise up bright and happy with a radiant face to awaken the desire in others.

For most of my life, I considered myself a Buddhist. When I was about fifteen years of age, I formed a two-and-one-half foot tall figure in meditation, a Buddha, out of papier-mache that was painted black. I did not find much to read about the subject other than various books from Max Muller’s Sacred Books of the East series from the local library. The Rigveda is part of the collection, although I did not attempt to read it until around the age of fifty.

It was around that time the Tibetans began arriving in the area with their form of Buddhism with lots of pomp and circumstance. They call it Mahayana, or the Great Path. There are four traditions in Tibetan Buddhism and I associated with three over a span of ten years. During a weekend dissertation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra, I learned two important details that caused me to quit.

During the dissertation was a long mind-numbing section devoted to a fictitious description of the hell realms, and the horrors that befall the dead for the horrors they committed during life. The main issue with that is that there is no more hellish place than what occurs upon the earth. Ask those who have difficulty obtaining enough food to live, or clean water, a place to live, suffers constant pain, lives in a war zone, or is running from violence. The earth is big and dangerous, but kindness towards others helps everyone, and such seems to be lacking now.

After life and before rebirth the spirit resides in space, they say that you reside in the hands of the Lord during that time. I think it is likely true, although I do not remember, and do not know anyone else who remembers, but either way that is not hell but heaven. Being devoted to one of the earthly religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and so on requires faith, and when something is so wrong in the teaching faith in its validity dwindles.

That is one of the two reasons I quit Mahayana Buddhism. I will tell you the other reason in a couple of weeks because it is in two parts. Discovering the true path is neither of the two parts, but the main reason of having no faith in any of the earthly religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and so on.

Here is a verse from the Veda for change.

A day of Brahma is a gift,

And to despair,

Chant AH as heaven to change.

The Winter Solstice is a very special day because during dark times like this, the sun is reborn to bring light to the world. The darkness leading up to this time is dreadful, especially for those with SAD, seasonal affective disorder. The Winter Solstice is a wondrous occasion, the true significance of this time of year. Yes, the Sun of God is divine and begins its yearly assent to heaven, aided by twelve disciples. They have different names in different places, but here they are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December. Among the disciples are a number of women, a key feature lacking in many of the earthly religions.

One earthly manmade religion in particular has subverted the yearly event and molded it into a fictitious event that unfortunately is widely celebrated. In fact, it is the most popular religion upon the earth today. It is hard to believe but the religion claims a man was born a god a couple thousand years ago of an earthly mother without an earthly father, but such is impossible. As I look around the three worlds, I can clearly see that all breathing, crying creatures are born of a mother and father. Creatures of the water world, the land, and those of the air have parents, and even earthly beings that have attained the heavenly state were born of a mother and father.

Widely considered the most significant teaching of the so-called godman is “the Sermon on the Mount.” I have read it and it does not even present the moral teaching of heaven, with nothing about the critical meditations. To become a master of the outer and inner teaching is the only way to attain the heavenly state, so it is unfortunate that such is missing from the sermon. Therefore, those who follow that religion will die upon the earth to be born again on the earth, but in which of the three worlds is not known. People are born upon the earth with the freedom to believe whatever, and there are many popular religions upon the earth today, but unfortunately, not one guides a person on the path to heaven.

The moral teaching of heaven is not difficult to understand. I present it often enough, but here it is again. Compassion for all breathing creatures that cry is the Holy Way. Be a peaceful and caring person. Consume a vegetarian diet, and enjoy watching and listening to the creatures of the land, water, and air, and if one is suffering, care for them. Do not harm any creature. It does not matter is they have two feet, four feet, or no feet and speak in a language you do not understand, treat them kindly, so all can enjoy the glorious sunlight.

Here is a verse from the Veda you might not have heard.

You may have heard that a loving God dwells within mortals, but have you heard that to spread out with the air to praise, the Goddess praises with light and thoughtful words to benefit all mortals.