[MD] Our Achilles Heel ?

[MarshaV]

Hi Gav,

This post hit home.  All your posts are terribly meaningful.

Marsha


At 08:24 PM 1/8/2007, Gav 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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