Thomas Burke:
CLASS OF 1981
Charlotte High SchoolClass of 1981
Punta gorda, FL
Thomas's Story
Thomas is from Port Charlotte, Florida. Thomas's schools include Charlotte High School.
Music Thomas likes includes The Rolling Stones, Hans Zimmer, Robyn. Books Thomas likes include The anarchist, Fans of Stephen King, Be Here Now. Movies Thomas likes include Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Paranormal Activity, Howl. TV shows Thomas likes include The Newsroom, Hell On Wheels, Breaking Bad.
One of Thomas's favorite quotes is:"“Fundamental to the life and thought of India from the very earliest of times is the great mythological theme of atma-yajna - the act of “self-sacrifice” whereby God gives birth to the world, and whereby men, following the divine pattern, reintegrate themselves with God. The act by which the world is created is the same act by which it is consummated - the giving up of one’s life - as if the whole process of the universe were the type of game in which it is necessary to pass the ball on as soon as it is received. Thus the basic myth of Hinduism is that the world is God playing hide-and-s...Expand for more
eek with himself. As Prajapati, Vishnu or Brahma, the Lord under many names creates the world by an act of self-dismemberment or self-forgetting, whereby the One becomes the Many, and the Actor plays innumerable parts. In the end, he comes again to himself only to begin the play once more - the One dying into the Many, and the Many dying into the One.”
“...for the point is that That which knows in and through every individual is God himself, the atman or Self of the world. Every life is a part or role in which the mind of God is absorbed, somewhat as an actor absorbs himself in being Hamlet and forgets that in real life he is Mr. Smith. By the act of self-abandonment God becomes all beings, yet at the same time does not cease to be God. “All creatures are one-fourth of him, three-fourths eternal life in heaven.” For God is divided in play, but in remains undivided in reality. So that when the play comes to an end, the individualized consciousness awakes to find itself divine.”
-Alan Watts
The Way of Zen".
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