Most mornings I listen to Alan Watts’ podcast as a daily part of my buddhist practice which has become as diverse as going to temple on Saturdays or Sundays at Green Gulch, alternating with my fiance’s Unitarian Church in Oakland, and even looking for buddhists in SecondLife. Sometimes I even alternate between praying in the tradition of my Catholic upbringing and meditating or taking long walks with my walking stick listening to readings from the Kabbalah (which I can on occasion spell).

Religion is poetry to me.

I’ve been hooked since Sister Mary Catherine taught me English by way of memorizing the catechism when I first arrived mojada from my native Guatemala at the age of six to Lancaster, Pa.

Pero eso es otro show, like Cristina from Univision says. This morning in packing for my trip out East (part work and part pleasure) I Watts posed this question:

“Imagine for a moment that you have the privilege of having a brief interview with G/god, during the course of which you are allowed to ask one question.”

What question would I ask?

[In the audience I imagine all the reporters scrambling, putting semicolons between three-part questions.]

It is in fact a golden opportunity and like many journalists, I would probably ask the silly question of asking God: “But what does it all mean?”

To which I can only imagine an immense rolling of the eyes.

“Why do I even need to question?” G/god would say. In the classic Buddhist response g/God would say: “It just is.”

So I would take back my question and ask myself “what is the best question to ask?” But that too would count towards the question (because g/God of course has telepathy) and I would beg for that not to be considered. Maybe I would just ask:

“Where is religion going in the next 10 years?”

But that too wouldn’t hit the mark and I would ask (Please, God, don’t let that one count!) to reschedule the interview for next week once I’d actually done some research.

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