[MD] Our Achilles Heel ?

[ian glendinning]

Quality
'Nuff said Gav.
Ian

On 1/9/07, gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> the more sensitive amongst us are usually the most
> competent. sensitivity and passion are good
> bedfellows.
>
> i had a very interesting experience recently with a
> fifty odd yr old tantric buddhist and martial arts
> dude. we started talking of philosophy and ideas and
> then he jumped on me from a great height because i was
> getting pedantic with semantics when he was trying to
> convey something passionately from the heart. he was
> genuinely angry and called me a boy.
>
> i then shut up and listened. he went on for about
> twenty minutes about taking responsibility for our
> selves, about suffering constructively or
> destructively, consciously or unconsciously. he was
> passionate and a little intimidating because he was
> trying to convey an existential truth rather than an
> abstract (ie conditional) one. his powerful focus on
> me stopped my own chattering mind so that the truth
> could sink in. i already knew everything he said in a
> abstract sense but he made me realise that that is
> irrelevant bullshit if you don't act upon it,
> continually....if you don't choose to live by truth.
> it is really bad karma, it is a slap in the face of
> the sacred around us, in us; it is self-indulgent,
> self-piteous blasphemy, sacrilege...a defiling of the
> holy.
>
> THIS IS OUR ACHILLES HEEL. TALKING TRUTH IS USUALLY
> THE OPPOSITE TO LIVING IN IT. LIVING IN IT IS SIMPLE;
> TALKING MAKES IT SEEM COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT.
>
> the function of the intellect is to communicate
> directly to one another independent of social
> control/validation. it gives the ability to
> communicate things beyond the words themselves. it is
> a means by which enlightened persons can help others
> evolve. but if these words are distinct from the
> person...if these words are not reflected in sharp
> resolution in the character, the energy of the person
> uttering them...then it is much much better to say nothing.
>
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