Ah ha, Richard, but you've often said that what is meant by meditating is thinking and that we all are thinking all the time. Following this logic, all FFL posters are meditating! Go figure!
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:20 AM, "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com" <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote: Yea I agree too. I love and appreciate how he wrote too. Actually I love Anartaxius, and Turqb and MJ and Curtis and others I have disagreed with here too. I always feel hopeful like they could change their thinking and come back to group meditation again. In love I meditate for them too with the large group, -Buck in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote: I love what Xeno wrote and that he wrote it in the midst of a disagreement: May you have the best of all possible experience. Thank you, XA and is it not a huge conundrum that progress cannot be gauged by how *productive* a technique is? This is where bravery is important I think, a willingness to stand for something even if one might be wrong. On Monday, November 11, 2013 9:26 AM, "anartaxius@..." <anartaxius@...> wrote: Not quite. It is true I have criticised your method of presentation here. But I was not criticising or attempting to disprove the message you were conveying. From an emotional point of view, your intent is laudable. So, if an attack, it was aimed at you for your anachronistic style of presentation, but it was not an ad hominem logical fallacy attack attempting to disprove the message by killing the messenger. This is the 21st century Buck, not the 19th century. I do not have that many nerves to be struck. I still meditate every day, three, four times a day. I have quit only those things which are not productive, and testing is always in order to discover what is working and what is not, though there are times when it is not possible to gauge progress this way. May you have the best of all possible experience. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <Buck> wrote: Om ha, ha, ha, ha. Xeno, evidently I struck your nerve. Classic. Typical ad hominem response to hit back at the messenger and not deal with the message. Would seems you are just one so sad no account sorry quitter himself for having fallen off the wagon as it drove on leaving you behind. I like these paragraphs for the study of how they can stir people. Worked even for you now. Thanks, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote: And in addition Buck - You posted this last year as well. Your repetitious plagiarism, spamming, and typical lack of original thinking here rather ill suits communicating to those on this forum. There is a spark in there somewhere Buck - it shows very occasionally - why not work on letting that come through instead of this ponderous Bible thumping approach which was better suited to a previous age. You are making it appear that meditation has zero effect on a person's life. The dinosaurs disappeared 65,000,000 years ago. Time to catch up! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: Buck wrote: > It is not that these meditators have lived, but that they have so lived...that they offered > themselves willingly in a cause vital and dear to humanity; and what is more, a cause they > comprehended as such, and looking at it, in all its bearings and its consequences, solemnly > pledged to it all that they had and were.... This comprehension of the cause, this intelligent > devotion, this deliberate dedication of themselves to duty, they suffered in testimony of their > loyalty, faith and love, make these meditators worthy of honor today, not merely that the cause > was worthy but that they were worthy. Excerpt from Civil War Brigadier General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's 1884 Memorial Day Address: It is not that these men are dead, but that they have so died...that they offered themselves willingly to death in a cause vital and dear to humanity; and what is more, a cause they comprehended as such, and looking at it, in all its bearings and its consequences, solemnly pledged to it all that they had and were.... This comprehension of the cause—this intelligent devotion—this deliberate dedication of themselves to duty—these deaths suffered in testimony of their loyalty, faith and love, make these men worthy of honor today, and these deaths equal to the lauded deaths of martyrs. Not merely that the cause was worthy but that they were worthy.... http://dragoon1st.tripod.com/cw/files/jlc_words.html
