--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@...> wrote: > > Welcome back, Robin :-
RESPONSE: I sense the positive and sincere thoughts you send my way, Rory, and I believe your doing this makes a perceptible difference to my confidence in posting on FFL. I refer here to their effect beyond that of my subjective appreciation of them. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Re: Summa Wrestling > > > > ME: > > > > First a meta comment thank you for taking the time to give a detailed > > response. > > A conversation about a topic dear to us that we may disagree about in > > profound > > ways in the context of rapport and respect is a privilege and a blessing. > > It is > > a rare event because it requires a framework of trust to hold it up. Trust > > that > > the other person is going to be charitable and kind and will not take your > > disagreement to reveal some character flaw. Somehow you have set the perfect > > tone for discussion Robin, and it is much appreciated! > > > > RESPONSE II: Well, in the case of yourself, I find that the ideal protocol > > reveals itself quite naturally in the intensely felt good-guy-ness whose > > consciousness I am writing into. I just followed my instincts here, and > > connect withare you ready for this?the love that is there somewhere. > > Look, for Christ sake, how many posters at FFL get birthday salutations > > from everyone? No one except God (think metaphor, Curtis) knows exactly > > what this Curtis M phenomenon is, but I can assure you, no matter how it > > feels from the inside being you, from the outside, the vibe is just too > > lovely and real not to recognize that you are (this is the at-the-ready > > panegyric) "the real deal". > > > > I sure wouldn't want to embarrass you, Curtis, but your sense of honour and > > generosity is quite pronouncedand need I say it, rare. There just is an > > exceptional maturity and sense of justice that makes itself known in your > > every act (I am extrapolating here: I assume in person you correspond to > > the context of how you write). I don't know if this came with the genetics, > > or was taught to you by your parents, or was the achievement of your simple > > yearning to *be a good person*, but whatever the provenance, the cause, of > > this characteristic that is so quintessential to being Curtis M, it is a > > Positive. > > > > I am not saying anything other than that which is the judgment of > > multitudes. So, I must presume you are not entirely unfamiliar with someone > > actually verbalizing (or attempting to verbalize) this truth about you. God > > (metaphor! Remember) wanted you to be liked deeply and immediatelyfor what > > purpose I don't know, since you have soured on himalthough I am sure he's > > got some rationalization to explain this: part of his peculiar sense of > > ironyyou can't evade his ultimate design of course; and therefore the > > ingredients which make up Curtis M are what you might choose if you were > > the divine Chef of creation and all the beings inside of it. > > > > A one-off recipe. > > > > (Curtis M to himself: Is this guy ever going to shut up? Really, this is > > verging on the ultra.) > > > > Well, just at the beginning I want to insert one more thingeven though it > > might perhaps fit better later on in this post-counterpost conversation. > > And it is this: I am very interested in your take on Maharishiwhen you > > were the deepest you were in, when you went to India, when you were taken > > with Maharishi as the embodiment of truth (Perennial Philosophy), when you > > would do anything to protect and uphold his Teachings. What constituted > > your unique and private sense of what he amounted to, Curtis? Because I > > believealthough I can't entirely explain whyyour personal experience of > > Maharishi to be of more interest to me than almost anyone else's that I can > > think of. > > > > Why so? Because it is my intuition that something happened to you when you > > first encountered Maharishi in person that remains an experience outside of > > and different from the context within which you have experienced * everyone > > and everything else in your entire life*. Am I wrong about this, Curtis? It > > just seems that that first interface: MMY and CM, produced a biochemical > > and metaphysical event in the universe that I would like to know about. > > > > My hunch: Maharishi seemed in the beginning to get past all your doubts, > > your presuppositions about what any human being could be capable of being, > > in person. That you felt a certain extraordinary agreement in your soul, > > and which, until you began to doubt himand TM,made you secretly and > > suavely content in defending MMY, in sacrificing yourself for him and his > > cause. > > > > I'm stopping here. Don't worry. But that connection between CM and MMY, it > > intrigues me greatly. Remember, I am only interested in your very > > *personal* impression of this man. > > > > But to your point: It's all good communicating with you, Curtis. I feel > > privileged somehow that I have been received into your lifeeven just in > > this officially dialectical form. > > > <snip> >