--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Everything you are talking about here, Off, is *learned behavior*, > not some eternal grand truth. You were TAUGHT that the know- > ledge of TM and of enlightenment was so fragile that it had to > be protected with eternal vigilance from what could be "inter- > jected" into it and what could "happen to it" over time. You were > TAUGHT that unethical acts are permissible when performing > this "protection." You were TAUGHT to look the other way when > these things happen, and never to complain when the people > who are "protecting" this oh-so-precious and oh-so-vulnerable > knowledge demean it through their lies and actions.
The trouble with this analysis is that it's all black-and-white, no shades of gray. Just for starters, reacting so violently against control of any kind is just as much learned behavior as the perception of the need for control. Moreover, it is itself a need for control, in this case to control the attempts to control and protect oneself. It's just as rigid, but in the opposite direction. Then there's the difference between the kind of learned behavior that simply parrots what has been internalized unquestioningly, and the kind which involves rigorous examination before being adopted on the strength of one's own experience, observation, and analysis. And of course there's the difference between looking the other way in the face of unethical acts, and accepting the *principle* behind them while deploring unethical implementation. > What if none of it is true, and the only thing you're "protecting" > is an eternal technique which has never been lost and never > "corrupted" because it cannot possibly be? Sounds like you're advocating fear of being wrong. "The fact that you might be wrong is simply no excuse [for not speaking out]: 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." --Ken Wilber [emphases added] 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/
