On May 31, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Alex Stanley wrote:
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
Strong Buddhists and Taoists I've met seem content
with Here And Now, and do their best to make the best
of what Here And Now presents them. In contrast, if
you look even at the sampling of "TM thought" we see
on this forum, many if not most of the things said
about the world by its adherents are anything *but*
content with Here And Now. They're more about long-
ing for "someday" and all that mythical "someday"
promises. If they're more blissed-out, "someday"
becomes "Any day now." But it's still not Here And
Now...it's always off in some theoretical future.
It would be refreshing if FFL had some of these mythical Strong
Buddhists, content with Here And Now. FFL's Buddhists mostly just
vent their discontent with the Here And Now of TM and TMers and/or
the There And Then of MMY.
I don't believe that's what Turq is talking about. If these
"Buddhists" were doing the same thing he's describing in TM folks,
then there'd be many posts on "Shambhala on earth" being posted by
Buddhist zealots and TB's about some magical time that their
collective practices and numbers of adherents would bring about a
remarkable golden age of world harmony as all the cities would be torn
down and rebuilt to be like Buddhist mandalas.
I must have missed all these posts, could you point me to some to some
Alex. One?
