--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > The other day Judy mentioned that I must be "really > pissed" because of something Raunchy said.
Actually I said you were really pissed because I'd reposted your account of Obama's telling you he was going to repair the holes Bush had blasted in the Constitution. > It surprised me a bit that she would think I would > get upset by something someone wrote here. So it must also have surprised you that Raunchy and I objected to your suggestion that we criticize Obama only because we're angry that Hillary lost, and that we would never criticize Hillary if she were in office and doing the same things Obama is doing. I mean, why on earth should that have bothered us? You never had any intention of insulting us, right? <snip> > I think the Vedic literature is written the way it > is, with so many expectation-shattering stories, to > culture the perspective that one's own little peephole > on the Universe does not afford a view of the whole, > and that therefore one should not take oneself too > seriously. Because if you don't take yourself too seriously, you never need to take a stand on anything; you don't need to take any risks or fight any battles. The injustice and cruelty and suffering you see through your little peephole just doesn't matter in the larger scale of things; no need to exert yourself to remedy it. Q: If everything is perfect just as it is, why are we working so hard to change things? MMY: That too is perfect just as it is. "...There is no room for timidity. The fact that you might be wrong is simply no excuse: You might be right in your communication, and you might be wrong, but that doesn't matter. What does matter, as Kierkegaard so rudely reminded us, is that only by investing and speaking your vision with passion, can the truth, one way or another, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world. If you are right, or if you are wrong, it is only your passion that will force either to be discovered. It is your duty to promote that discovery--either way--and therefore it is your duty to speak your truth with whatever passion and courage you can find in your heart. "You must shout, in whatever way you can." --Ken Wilber
