Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, rockin’ everywhere.

I’ve successfully avoided video games for the past few days and will continue to do so tonight.  I plan to return to the state of San Andreas sometime tomorrow, though.  Maybe even shoot anal probes into the citizens of Santa Modesta on my Xbox… haven’t decided.  Surprisingly it hasn’t been hard staying off the computer and Xbox the past few days because there is still lots to do.  I have Blockbuster Online so always have some kind of movie or something to watch, which I did.  It was called:

The tagline (incase it’s too small to read) is:  Every bullet leaves a trail.

And what a trail it is!  But I’m not afraid to say I wept like a little bitch at the end.  Yeah, that’s right.  Want to fight about it?

Elizabeth Mitchell is in it, and for those not in the know, she plays Juliet (the not-so-other Other) on Lost.  In this movie, she plays the creepiest role I’ve probably ever seen.  It was genuinly (sp sp sp sp?) disturbing.

Speaking of Lost, I have a new idea about what-the-hell-is-going-on.  As much as I’ve learned to enjoy the ride and not worry so much about the overall mystery, I still like to pay close attention at things and try to guess what certain things mean.

Well, remember a few episodes back when Kate, Sawyer, and Alex (the young Other girl) went to rescue Alex’s boyfriend Carl from “Room 23,” where he was strapped in a chair being forced to watch some kind of brain washing movie?

If you play that movie backwards, you hear a female voice say over and over:  “Only fools are enslaved by time and space.”

Hmmmmm, that sounds like it might be cool.

Upon furthur research, this is a principle from something called “Buddhist Prespectives on Time and Space.”  Upon furthur furthur research, I read the entire text, and here is a paragraph that stuck out to me (relax, you don’t have to read the whole thing if you don’t want, you can just read the bold):

The holy practitioners of Buddhism, being well cultivated in meditation, can stop the mind and calm the heart. They can venture into the profound, subtle, and wondrous realm of Dharmadhatu (realm of the Dharma). They can break through the boundary of form and liberate themselves from the constraints of time and space. To them, “A shortened ksana is not necessarily brief, and a lengthened asamkhya kalpa is not long.” Master Hsu Yun, a Ch’an master in recent history, once retreated to the Ts’ui Wei mountain in Shensi province. While waiting for rice to cook, he decided to take a short meditation in a cave and quickly achieved samadhi, an advanced state of meditative concentration. When he came out of his meditation, the rice was already completely rotten. He eventually realized that he had actually meditated for half a year! This is just like the saying, “Seemingly only seven days have passed on the mountain, yet thousands of years have gone by in the world.”

We know that it’s still 2004 on the island (Ben said so, and Sayid just said that only 80 days have passed).  However, there has been speculation that it’s “real-time” in the real world, meaning that it’s actually 2007 (I could explain why, but that’s another blog in itself.  Basically, an “officially” released video this summer as part of Lost’s summer “experience” was a video from a Hanso Foundation executive saying the Dharma Initiative failed, and the video was dated in 2006.)

Could the Others, or the mysterious and elusive “Him,” be a grand master in Buddhist’s concept of “Dharma?”  Could he have been so powerful he warped the realm of space-time on the island?

The holy practitioners of Buddhism can escape the constraints of time and space and venture into the dimension of Dharmadhatu. Their pure true nature fills the universe constantly and they are at ease every moment. Their Dharma body is omnipresent and always at peace everywhere.

Could this be the whispers heard in the woods?  Could this be why, when Cindy and the rest of the survivors who were ‘captured’ early on came back and told Jack they were “watching?”

Will any of this even matter?  I have no idea.  It’s not really even an attempt to explain all the mysteries (because it sure doesn’t.)  Just sounded like it would be pretty cool.

[End of story.]

By the way - I’m convinced that one of the survivor’s has been an ‘Other’ all along.  Maybe not an ‘Other’ as we’ve come to know them (we don’t really even have a firm answer of who they are, anyway, except that they are not affiliated with the failed Dharma Initiative).  I’m predicting John Locke will end up being someone other than just a ’survivor.’  In the pilot episode, when they introduced his character, they did it as if he was someone evil.  From then on he was portrayed as kind of a good-natured loner, but lately the music has been returning and his motives have started to get suspicious.

Ooooooo-eeeeeeeeee-ooooooooooo……

Coolest part of this week’s show, and a return to the creepiness I’ve been missing:

Namaste, bitches. (hilarious)