--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is what is amazing about Tom P. On one hand he > can post these incredibly racist and antisemetic > posts, but then he can act with great compassion > towards others. In fact Rick Archer posted a comment > about Tom bringing an African American person to see > Amma. So, go figure.....
I think that more people should remember that two-word mantra, "Go figure." The essential nature of life is paradox. Is it any wonder that people sometimes reflect that? It strikes me lately that there is an approach to button-pushing posts here than might be more productive than bashing the aspect of the person that has pushed your aversion button. That is, praise the aspects of the person that push your "higher self" buttons. In simple English, few here actually take the time to give Tom some credit when he tries to post something he feels is uplifting and potentially valuable to other seekers. Instead, we (and I'm as guilty of this as anyone else) home in on the lapses, in which he allows his lower self to express its conditioning instead of its essential nature. Recently, one poster (whose name I didn't recog- nize) made an attempt to speak to the adult in Tom, the inner person who might be able to realize that lawsuits and angry rhetoric *aren't* an adult way to respond to criticism. I thought that was pretty refreshing, and might actually have some positive effect. I kinda doubt that giving the angry inner child a bunch of shit for being a child is going to. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
