--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Llundrub" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Somtimes though, people simple don't read whats > > on the page. They > > > hear what their innards think the person must be > > saying, based on some > > > stereotype, or simplistic representation, the > > person has been tagged > > > with by the reader's mental and emotional worlds. > > > > > > > > > btw, welcome back vashti. > > > > > > > > > > > > ----Yeah, like how Ron merely read half of my post > > and then decided > > to comment upon it. > > > > Ron ? > > You arrogant, self-centerd basta.....wait, I'm sorry > akasha, that's me I'm talking about! > -Me
Ah, Brother Peter, your comments are indeed insightful and wise. As I read it, you are commenting on the question and paradox of projection -- or projecting ones inner models and biases onto the words or motivations of another. Your comment, while appropriately making fun of my prior comments about your words (it was your words and style that I found arrogant, not you (were my words clear on that, hmm, if not I should, as always, strive to write more clearly)) point to an important question: what is NOT projection? It can be a hallway of infinite mirrors: did I see arrogance in your words because that is what I am, and can not help but see that in others? Is your humerous response because you see some shortcoming in me that is really a projection of your own shortcomings? I own up to having arrogance within me, and any number of other less than virtuous qualities. Does that mean that i see arrogance everywhere and in everything? No, because that is not the case. So the reverse side of the big question is: when is an observation projection and when is it insight? These questions recognize that all have filters, even lasyavidya in liberation provides certain filters that correspond to personal preference, ways of categorizing the world, people, etc. My current take on this (perhaps stemming from innate qualites that I am projecting) is that all observations are not necessarily projections -- but most observations are subject to subtle and even quite blatant projections -- distortions built into our own interpretative filters. The intellect, daily sharpened, has a role in looking hard at what is, and unfiltering the internal filters, helping to lay them aside. Thats why I mentioned the observation that people often / sometimes don't even read the words that are on the page. Their filters kick in, perhaps in a pitta moment, and all becomes a cloud of dust, with light now difussed and distorted in myriad of ways as it tries to pass thru, but instead is reflected off, the dust. Sometimes there is so much dust strewn about that even a calm reminder to "just look at the words" raises even more dust. I have noticed recently, and numerous times in the past, that a simple request to simply try to map the words in question to ones reaction is met with hostility and rebuke-- and humerously enough, no actual attempt at such mapping. Maya is the most subtle, and blatant of these filters -- and refined intellect has a role, not THE (exclusive) role in extracting the real from the unreal, the complete from the uncomplete. --- from the dustbin, Akasha To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
