You know, Ravi Yogi, Rick Archer invited me to post on this blog. When I looked over the blog, it seemed pretty dangerousthat is, as I said to RA, I might get eaten alive by the sacred monsters on this blog. Perhaps for my own good, I don't know. But I was somewhat apprehensive about posting here because it seemed from my first impression that I might really be in for it. But I posted several times; no problem. Then, this morning, I discover YOUR POSTS. What I lack (I am sincere here, believe me) is some context within which to understand your dismissal of me in the terms you have used: Prodigal Pimp. Who knows? maybe it fits perfectly, but it's just I haven't come across this characterization of myself. Perhaps, after being eviscerated on this blog by Ravi Yogi I will beat a hasty retreat. It depends on whether you can substantiate this judgment of me (PP) or not. Meantime I will (you will understand this) have to resort to the most disguised as well as the most blatant irony in order to protect my reputation in my own eyes. After all, it's not what other people choose to think about you, it's what you think about yourself. I just want to defend myself to the utmost (on behalf of myself) so as to put off as long as possible the possible impact of this indictment. The indictment implied in your unflattering estimation of me. Should I take this personally, Ravi Yogi? Or should I just play along with you, seeing whether you really will knock me off of this blog? Could it beI am just speculating herethat you, as a born Hindu, assume as a given an assumption about the validity of the Eastern view of reality which itself needs to be challenged? But I don't know nothing, Ravi. I am only (as you can see) taking the measure of this opposition which has suddenly come out into the open. I don't relish one of them food fights that sometimes get started on this blog. If you are going to deliver the real intellectual ordinance, why then I'll have to anticipate possible permanent injury. And I will step away and nurse my wounds, hoping they don't prove fatal.
No, really, Ravi Yogi, I am a nice guy. I think you've got be wrong. Give me a chance, will you? --- In [email protected], "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@...> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > > > On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:06 PM, maskedzebra wrote: > > > > > RESPONSE: Not a single person in my lifetime has demonstrated > > > impeccably and infallibly that such a "ground of all being" even > > > exists. That is, if I am to go by his/her claim to become the > > > embodiment of such an irreducible level of reality. In fact, I > > > would go further: I have not observed a single person who even > > > gives evidence that they have made contact with such a fundamental > > > form of reality. For me the "home of all the laws of nature" is a > > > metaphysical fiction. Sure, the EXPERIENCE seems to verify this > > > reality (via TM), but, given how wonderfully convincing one's > > > initial experiences are of TM (the auguring of everything MMY > > > promises), the final pay-off (nothing to show for it, an > > > extraordinarily disappointing trajectory of 'progress' in one's > > > 'evolution' over decades of doing TM), logically forces one to > > > conclude: THESE EXPERIENCES ARE FALSE; that is, they DO NOT > > > COINCIDE WITH REALITY. There IS no such thing as Enlightenment. > > > > > > Well perhaps for the TM system, which seems to induce novel forms of > > psychosis and ego inflation, but you cannot exclude every awakening > > tradition, can you? > > > > OMG, He IS, can't you tell....? You look like you are begging him - > c'mon... Vakradhatu, the one trick parrot, the proponent of the > Vakragita begging the Prodigal Pimp Maskedzebra for acknowledgement? > Read his puke again - you will see he ranked MMY higher than HHDL, don't > ask me why - I don't know, I guess his hobby is to compare > "non-enlightened" people trying to teach the "non-existent" > "enlightenment" to ignorant masses? >
