I really feel that if we could just sit to meditate together then you'd come to understand the truly larger Good you rile against. You guys just need to come back, get your meditation checked, sit in a group meditation, listen to an advanced lecture again and then you'd see what mischief in nature you are doing mucking and raking all this negativity of yours. I live in my skin, the blanket of FFL. You guys and ladies, are my warmth. Obba, get off my blanket, -Buck
--- In [email protected], "Buck" wrote: > > "The unbounded faith which conservative Meditators have in their own > principles, and the way they regard the principles and practices of other > techniques, approach intolerance on their part. They believe they are guided > to their convictions by the Spirit of Truth, and they really think they have > arrived at absolutely correct conclusions, and that any other opinions are > wrong. They think that all who differ from them would agree with them if > they had sufficient lightÂ…." > -Buck > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Michael Jackson wrote: > > > > > > Why on earth would anyone make up something like that? > > > There are far too many stories that abound about unethical > > > behavior on the part of the TMO for people to have to > > > make any up. > > > > According to Nabby, anyone who says such things is on > > the payroll of the CIA, or the Dalai Lama. I don't know > > about you, but if this is true, my payroll checks have > > been lost in the mail. :-) > > > > More seriously, there are a number of people here whose > > world view is so precarious that they believe that anyone > > who says anything that threatens that world view is > > attacking them. They're terrified of allowing the (in > > their view) heretical ideas into their awareness, so > > they either retreat into nostalgic ideas of the move- > > ment and ignore them, or play "Kill the messenger" and > > try to suppress them. > > > > I think it's sad, and if this mindset is the legacy of > > the decades they've spent meditating, an even sadder one. > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: nablusoss1008 > > > To: [email protected] > > > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:42 AM > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Challenge: Talk about the issue, not the > > > people who brought it up > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "salyavin808" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], doctordumbass@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I can honestly say I went on a lot of residence courses, and was > > > > > never asked to donate money, or purchase *anything*. Wasn't a perfect > > > > > experience, but this rapaciousness you attribute to the reps of the > > > > > TMO was just never present whenever I interacted with them. Not once, > > > > > during major national courses, residence courses, or working for the > > > > > TMO on staff, was I ever asked for donations, or to get the next big > > > > > thing. This is some tape loop in your head, that does not match > > > > > reality. And you know what they say, where there's smoke, there's > > > > > fire...:-) > > > > > > > > Ah, so we imagined it all. Fascinating evasion. > > > > > > I've never encountered any form of sales-pitch on ANY course during > > > decades in the TMO. > > > So far we only have your version of this. > > > > > >
