From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Smokey the [sic] Bear Sutra
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:53:38 GMT


Date: Thu 9 Jul 87 18:06:15-EDT
From: Chris Newell <CN08@TE.CC.CMU.EDU>
Subject: Smokey the Bear
To: ad0r@TE.CC.CMU.EDU


                            SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA


  Once in the Jurassic, about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in
this corner of the Infinite Void gave a great Discourse to all the assembled
elements and energies:  to the standing beings, the walking beings, the flying
beings, and the sitting beings -- even grasses, to the number of thirteen
billion, each one born from a seed, were assembled there:  a Discourse
concerning Enlightenment on the Planet Earth.  

  "In some future time, there will be a continent called America.  It will have
great centers of power called such as Pyramid Lake, Walden Pond, Mt.  Rainier,
Big Sur, Everglades, and so forth; and powerful nerves and channels such as
Columbia River, Mississippi River, and Grand Canyon.  The human race in that
era will get into troubles all over its head, and practically wreck everything
in spite of its own strong intelligent Buddha-nature."  

  "The twisting strata of the great mountains and the pulsings of great
volcanoes are my love burning deep in the earth.  My obstinate compassion is
schist and basalt and granite, to be mountains, to bring down the rain.  In
that future American Era, I shall enter a new form to cure the world of
loveless knowledge that seeks with blind hunger, and minless rage eating food
that will not fill it."  

  And he showed himself in his true form of 

                              SMOKEY THE BEAR.

  A handsome smokey-colored brown bear standing on his hind legs, showing that
he is aroused and watchful.

  Bearing in his right paw the Shovel that digs to the truth beneath
appearances, cuts the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the
fires of greed and war.

  His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display -- indicating that all
creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits,
chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.

  Wearing the blue work overalls symbolic of slaves and laborers, the countless
men oppressed by civilization that claims to save but only destroys.  

  Wearing the broad-brimmed hat of the West, symbolic of the forces that guard
the Wilderness, which is the Natural State of the Dharma and the True Path of
man on earth; all true paths lead through the mountains.

  With a holo of smoke and flame behind, the forest fires of the kali-yuga,
fires caused by the stupidity of those who think things can be gained and lost
whereas in truth all is contained vast and free in the Blue Sky and Green Earth
of One Mind.

  Round-bellied to show his kind nature and that the great earth has food
enough for everyone who loves and trusts here.

  Trampling underfoot wasteful freeways and needless suburbs; smashing the
worms of capitalism and totalitarianism.

  Indicating the Task:  his followers, becoming free of cars, houses, canned
food, universities, and shoes, master the Three Mysteries of their own Body,
Speech, and Mind, and fearlessly chop down the rotten trees and prune out the
sick limbs of this country America and then burn the leftover trash.  Wrathful
but Calm, Austere but Comic, Smokey the Bear will Illuminate those who would
help him; but for those who would hinder or slander him, HE WILL PUT THEM OUT.

  Thus his great Mantra:

      Namah samanta vajranam chanda maharoshana
      Sphataya hum traka ham mam

      "I DEDICATE MYSELF TO THE UNIVERSAL DIAMOND, 
      BE THIS RAGING FURY DESTROYED"

  And he will protect those who love woods and rivers, Gods and animals, hobos
and madmen, prisoners and sick people, musicians, playful women, and hopeful
children.

  And if anyone is threatened by advertising, air pollution, or the police,
they should chant SMOKEY THE BEAR'S SPELL:

           DROWN THEIR BUTTS
           CRUSH THEIR BUTTS
           DROWN THEIR BUTTS
           CRUSH THEIR BUTTS

  And SMOKEY THE BEAR will surely appear to put the enemy out with his
vajra-shovel.

Now, those who recite this Sutra and then try to put it in practice
will accumulate merit as countless as the sands of Arizona and Nevada,
Will help save the planet Earth from total oil slick,
Will enter the age of harmony of man and nature,
Will win the tender love and caresses of men, women, and beasts
Will always have ripe blackberries to eat and a sunny spot under a
pine tree to sit at, AND IN THE END WILL WIN HIGHEST PERFECT ENLIGHTENMENT.

   Thus we have heard.

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