I'm not the hall monitor. You have cast me in that
role. It is a reflection of a need you have to relate
to me this way. But you'll never acknowledge that in
the slightest.
-Peter
 
--- akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> The celebration began a long time ago, unbeknownst
> to some beefed-up
> arrogant bouncers patrolling the rope line -- as
> people walk, happily
> and laughing -- through the open back door.  
> 
> How many have had an experience of "no-doer"? Wow.
> Almost everyone.
> (Peter faints --- the shock of it all. ) 
> 
> How many have had an experience during their first
> year of TM? 
> Wow!! Almost everyone. 
> 
> How many, in the first few years of TM heard or read
> MMY talking about
> this and it made experiential sense?  
> Holy Cow!! Almost everyone. Who would have known????
> 
> 
> How many have had an eperience where the world
> appears to be whole and
> still, even while it all contines to move and flow? 
> OH MY GOD!!!!  Not everyone -- but so many people! 
>  
> But Peter, if you really want to be the hall monitor
> and pass out hall
> passess so people can refer to multiple experiential
> realities without
> getting a detention -- and that actually makes you
> happy -- then go
> for it. Or don't. Whatever. 
> 
> The point still holds: if one talks about something
> from a basis of 
> experience to a person who has an experiential basis
> to understand it,
> the conversation is meaningful to all -- except to
> the most arrogant
> of elitist eavesdroppers. Which I am sure you are
> not.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Don't start the celebrations too early. The point
> > still holds: if you talk about something with no
> > experiential context, the conversation is
> meaningless
> > beyond entertainment.
> > -Peter
> > 
> > --- akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Great. Glad  to hear it. And now the world won't
> be
> > > burdened anymore
> > > with nonesense admonitions about dharmas when
> there
> > > are references to
> > > similtaneous multiple levels of understnding
> about
> > > soemthing. Its a
> > > great day of celebration.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In [email protected], Peter
> Sutphen
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:.  
> > > > Thank you for setting me straight. I feel much
> > > better.
> > > > -Peter
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --- akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > To be a bit more specific Peter, your dharma
> cop
> > > > > role assumes most
> > > > > people are fools. It assumes all people are
> like
> > > > > woody allen's satire
> > > > > / characture of himself as a kid in Annie
> Hall.
> > > As
> > > > > you remember, the
> > > > > young 10 year old is brought to the
> psychiatrist
> > > by
> > > > > his mother because
> > > > > Alvie won't do anything other than stare at
> > > walls.
> > > > > Alvie explains his
> > > > > version of existential angst to the shrink,
> "the
> > > > > universe is
> > > > > expannding, which means one day it will
> explode
> > > and
> > > > > that 
> > > > > will be the end of everything." 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Some funny responses: His mother yells,
> "What
> > > > > business is it of yours
> > > > > what the Universe is doing??!!" And the
> shrink
> > > > > explains in
> > > > > condescending tones, "Don't worry Alvie,
> > > Brooklyn is
> > > > > not expanding." 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Your fear appears to be that everyone is an
> > > Alvie,
> > > > > that they will be
> > > > > paralyzed into inaction if they dare
> recognize a
> > > > > reality that is only
> > > > > partially, though perhaps not yet eternally
> > > > > recognized. People, their
> > > > > associated reactive minds, intellects and
> > > bodies,
> > > > > are usually not that
> > > > > dull as to sink into paralysis when
> realizing
> > > > > conceptually, based on
> > > > > experience -- even if it is not eternal
> > > experience,
> > > > > that there is no
> > > > > doer. Or at a deeper level, there is no
> action. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > One can learn of how food is assimilated at
> > > > > chemical, quantum
> > > > > mechanical or even cosmological levels ("it
> > > doesn't
> > > > > amout to a hill of
> > > > > beans" to quote another film) and yet still
> the
> > > body
> > > > > contines to eat
> > > > > on the surface level. It is not shocked into
> > > > > paralysis knowing its
> > > > > just quantum soup drinking quantum soup.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So your role playing dharmic high priest,
> > > telling
> > > > > people from what and
> > > > > how they should interpret the world, is
> ITMBO
> > > (in
> > > > > this mind/body's
> > > > > opinion) more something you are working out
> > > > > internally, and does not
> > > > > provide much useful real world guidance for
> > > others. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > But everyone can and will decide on their
> own.
> > > > > Besides, this is just
> > > > > all quantum soup made from an insignificant
> hill
> > > of
> > > > > beans. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > --- your pal alvie (still crazy, but not
> > > paralyzed,
> > > > > after all these
> > > > > years).
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > --- In [email protected],
> akasha_108
> > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > Yes, I understand Peter. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > As long as you continue to comparmentalize
> > > > > wholeness into little
> > > > > > domains, and feel the need to keep
> tracking
> > > our
> > > > > different 
> > > > > > dharmas blazing in your mind, you will
> > > continue to
> > > > > feel the need to
> > > > > > play dharma cop -- and to continue to cite
> > > people
> > > > > for your own
> > > > > > internal vision of dharmic conflicts of
> the
> 
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