Thursday, January 27, 2005

'With Cheese!'

Speaking of Zen Koans I have been pondering something.

Do you know that McDonald's commercial where the duder was supposed to go out and get snacks for a party and ends up getting about $50 worth of those new Double Quarter Pounders? The key point to that commercial is not his sticking skewers into the burgers as a solution for the party, but rather his rationale is that things will be all better because the burgers are 'With cheese!'

The cheese is catch-all, the reason that the difficult becomes the viable. This Boddhisatva is saying that the cheese melds us, spiritually as well as physically, presenting a solution to a problem. The cheese, metaphorically speaking, is the love of a Higher Being that binds us together; without the bond of the melted cheese, we are basically an anarchic pile of breads, meats, and veggies causing disharmony in the party. The simple solution ruling over the complex quandry, the unifying point that reigns in the rogue.

Oh, could it be that we in our daily lives were more 'With cheese!', then truly peace and harmony shall follow.

Namaste,

-Evil Badstar.
(Methodist)

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