On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:30 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
This model is designed to make people feel stupid if they're still lacking the realization, as if there were something wrong with them for not having it--e.g., "what should have been obvious," "IGNORANT of what's been right in his face since the day he was born." It's the very worst kind of elitism, playing with words to exalt oneself and denigrate others.
Quite the opposite, the actual intention (at least in Buddhadharma, but I suspect we see the same thing is seen in Hinduism's various darshanas or ways-of-seeing ) is that there's 'different strokes for different folks'.
When the movement came out with its "mistake of the intellect" phrase it kinda struck me this same way. Unfortunate choice of words IMO.
It's a translation of a common word used in Ayurveda is all it is. The problem with the TMO, they seem to use it frequently outside it's intended context.
