--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There seems to be a big assumption in your discussions > of 'Master,' namely that one must or should do what he/she > says. Because that myth is so pervasive, I never use the > word 'Master' to describe a teacher. To me, a teacher > just teaches. As in the Buddha quote on the FFL home > page, it is up to the student to weigh the teachings > against his or her own experience and intuition and > decide which have value and which do not. > **** The Buddha quote describes how things actually are, if you are not kept as a prison or a slave against your own will. It is about acknowledging of a fact, and taking the responsibility of one's choices to oneself. Even if you do without questioning what your `master' asks, your choices are based on your own understanding of what is the right thing to do. This fact makes it of vital importance to improve our capacity to clearer insight or understanding. It means also learning to understand how we subjectively make meaning. And how this meaning making can become distorted as a means to protect ourselves from feeling and owning unbearable emotions or affects in our subconsciousness. Irmeli 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/
