Meditation for October 19th, 2016
Spirituality & Driving
Cars is the most popular form of transportation in America. Even in cities where we live cramped on top of each other, we choose to drive to get from point A to point 2.
Can a person drive and remain spiritual?
No.
It is never fast enough
While driving is faster than any other land personal transport, we don’t seem to be satisfied by the speed we are allowed to get to our destination. We run into police policing the speed limit, cars going five MPH under the speed limit for no reason at all, people staring at their phones and figuring out where the restaurant is because they have only lived in Portland for thee months, or red lighted and stop signs ever fucking block.
Other drivers
No one knows how to drive. If we did we wouldn’t be complaining about every driver. We have people who drive like maniacs at high speeds while other people are scared shitless and drive bunch over the steering wheel hoping to see danger before danger finds the car. Other cars keep making a driver live without any spirituality.
Bicycles & pedestrians
In a dark wet rainy city in the Pacific Northwest, people decided that riding bikes is the best form of transportation. Some cyclists want to prove that they own all pavement and play dangerous games with cars while other people are completely clueless about riding bikes, so they ride on a shoulder less highway. Also in the dark wet rainy Pacific Northwest are a bunch of kids who wear all black and cross streets with chips on their shoulders.
Make the world a cul de sac
Cars give the impression that it’s okay to tear up huge acres of trees and make a bunch of matching houses that form a neighborhood that is named after the trees that were cut down. Then cars give the impression that it’s okay to drive from tree named neighborhood to the old city and work and then drive back adding two or more hours to the work day experience.
Death
Cars also make the world a real shorty place because the material and fuel needed to make cars work are in parts of the world that are unstable, so we have to involve ourselves militarily so that you can drive your car from tree neighborhood to job. You literally kill people when you drive.
Death again
Driving is getting into a steel cage, make a gas blow up so that the cage can rocket across huge tracks of concrete at high velocity along other steel cages with combusting gas. Death is inevitable.
You can’t give it up
Once you get used to driving at 70 MPH to work, why would you drive at 45 MPH with wind power or some other alternative energy? If you are an American, you won’t.
Buses
If you are going down a road that is two lanes, one going one way and the other going another, you will find yourself behind a bus. Those people are reading, listening to music or podcasts, and not having to pay any attention to the traffic around them. You are gritting your teeth in the car behind the bus hating poor people.
Cars are expensive
You can’t just buy a car. You have to pay for fees and registration, gas and upkeep, and insurance. Your car isn’t guaranteed to work. And after it’s all said and done, your car is worth shit.
You have to be present
You can’t take a few seconds and breath or visualize yourself on a beach, you have to be paying attention to what you are doing, where you are going, what other cars are doing, what the cyclist is doing, what the pedestrians are doing, looking for thugs in the road, and anything else that might kill you or earn you a nice manslaughter count.
There are no spirituality in cars.