"Perfect enjoyment demands intelligence."

--- In [email protected], "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@...> wrote:
>
> Dear maskedzebra - your message is so beautiful that I'm forced to
> respond to this excellent judgement of my nature (except for the zero
> sincerity part) line by line, I say you are a very smart individual.
> --- In [email protected], maskedzebra <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > The test of a person's sincerity is: how do they unconsciously
> compensate for what they do not and cannot know about why they are
> existing and why they are the particular who that is existing.
> >
> Yes - this is true - I'm not sure why I'm existing - this is something I
> ask every minute and I have no answer.
> > I see that even Curtis grants you some respect. Although in that
> BatGap interview with Rick Archer you convinced me of your sincerity
> with regard to Amma (in her role as your Guru), I have found, in nearly
> all my interactions with you, that you are provocative, insolent,
> insincere, and just plain wilful.
> >
> Yes I was sincere with respect to Amma, but I'm not so sure now - the
> beloved looked real when I yearned for her, now the love has dissolved
> the boundaries - so I feel I have become one with the beloved. So I'm
> confused if I or the beloved even exist - I can only confirm the
> existence of love.
> 
> > Since in my belief system you cannot be God (the being who knows
> everything, who has created everything, who directs everything, who is
> immediately present to the infinite future), you must be categorized,
> like me, as a created being who is not in possession of all the facts
> which pertain to your origin, your existence, and your individual form.
> >
> Yes - I don't know what the origin is or who created me but these
> questions don't seem to bother me at all.
> > Not to say your special and unique destiny in the universe.
> >
> Yes - I believe there seems to be some special and unique destiny for
> everyone of us.
> > This, it seems to me, is the problem, Ravi, for no matter what your
> agenda (excepting, as I say, this account of your experiences with Amma,
> which seem to me to be innocent and real) SEEMS to be, what I get is
> someone interested in only one thing: stirring the pot.
> Yes, my experiences with Amma were innocent and real. I don't have any
> agenda other than provoking and stirring the pot.
> > I TRULY BELIEVE YOU HAVE NEVER ONCE, in any exchange I have read yet,
> OPENED YOURSELF UP (by your inward posture) TO THE PROPOSITION OF
> WANTING TO LEARN OR KNOW ANYTHING AT ALL.
> > > You are not serious in your relations with other human beings, Ravi.
> You are just dancing, playing, teasing, whirling, feinting, disguising,
> concealing, eluding, goading, posing.
> Not quite true. I have several posts where I was very sincere. But yes I
> mostly indulge in playing, teasing and mocking - guilty as charged. But
> I'm either brutally sincere or completely elusive and playful.
> >
> > YOU WILL NOT AND CANNOT MAKE YOURSELF VULNERABLE TO ANOTHER HUMAN
> BEING. Not in any way whatsoever.
> >
> Not true, to people whom I love I completely expose myself. I completely
> exposed to my beloved and she repeatedly insulted me and distrusted my
> love, my love was trapped, nowhere to go it was internalized and opened
> a perennial source of love within me.
> > What person who has loved you would testify that my description here
> does  not accord with their experience—I mean in the end?
> >
> Yes they will testify to both - my complete sincerity or my complete
> elusiveness. But I'm not sure there's a single person who gets the total
> picture.
> 
> > Yes, you can take this post as insulting, demeaning, judgmental: but
> the real question is: AM I WRONG IN MY INTERPRETATION OF YOUR ACTIONS?
> >
> No you are not and on the contrary I am overjoyed and thrilled by your
> post.
> > I do not believe I am, because I don't think you are sincerely seeking
> to get anything from anyone. (Except, I must suppose, from Amma.)
> >
> True, in an inner sense, I never even got any advice from Amma on my
> spiritual practices. But I love exchange of ideas, learning new things
> on a mundane, outer level. Heck I have learned a lot from you. I had to
> have a browser tab opened with merriam-webster.com to understand all the
> words you threw around.
> > But your importunate hounding of me with various questions, those
> questions are merely a game you play. I sense NO DESIRE to have them
> answered.
> > > They represent—all your questions, challenges— your way of
> trying to provoke me into responding, and as soon as I do, you will just
> keep playing with me.
> > > Nope. You are a trickster, a provocateur, a crazy gadfly—but for
> what purpose? Perhaps only you know the answer to that, Ravi Yogi.
> >
> No I sincerely do. When I didn't get any or I feel that you are focused
> on the accidental and not the essential is when I start posting
> sarcastic, provocative messages.
> 
> > Meanwhile I refuse to answer what you put to me, because I would be an
> idiot to do so—and you would consider me secretly inside yourself,
> to be an idiot too.
> >
> No I might consider you unenlightened but never an idiot - I think you
> are a genius.
> > What is the proof of the truth of this judgment of you?
> >
> Mostly accurate.
> > That you will manifest not the slightest bewilderment, confusion,
> wonder, perplexity, concern over what I have said—BUT WILL COME BACK
> WITH A RESPONSE WHICH PERFECTLY DEMONSTRATES THE TRUTH OF WHAT I HAVE
> TOLD YOU HERE.
> >
> > Just watch: Here it comes.
> >
> You tell me?
> > SEE? I told you. Even though as I write these last few words, I
> already know and see the future: and that future is a response which
> reveals that YOU COULD NOT IN THE LEAST BE INFLUENCED, AFFECTED,
> TOUCHED, SURPRISED BY ANYTHING I HAVE SAID.
> >
> > Realize, then, Ravi, that in every word you choose to write in a
> counter-post you will be exhibiting every one of the characteristics I
> have identified here in this post.
> >
> > Is this your cosmic fate, Ravi?
> >
> > I pray it is not. Because of how pointless this makes your life.
> >
> Yes life is pointless, life is not a thing of utility - a car has a
> utility, a house has a utility how can life have a point?
> > Gauge the sincerity of this letter, then see whether there is any sort
> of reciprocity of sincerity once you have composed your post.
> >
> There is.
> > There will be none, Ravi. There will be none.
> >
> > (And if this post gets me kicked off of FFL, so be it. I will not
> withdraw my comments for any reason.)
> >
> No need to withdraw any comments, and I haven't been kicked out yet so I
> can never envision that possibility for you.
>


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