--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.amritapuri.org/teachings/message/cartoon.php
Interesting, and very sweet, but with regard to her last comment, I met a guy in Paris who was actually proud of paintings and photographs of his mother nude. With some justification...she's a famous French movie star. :-) More seriously, although her comments are sweet and compassionate, isn't the reaction she's talking about (however understandable it may be) nothing but attachment? If someone disses my Mom or my spiritual teacher, I don't *have* to react as if they were dissing *me*. They aren't. It's the identification with and the attachment to the person or the beliefs that is the problem, not the comments themselves. Wouldn't a more "high vibe" reaction be to get beyond reaction? There are organizations -- social, political, spiritual and religious -- that actively *promote* reactivity on the part of their adherents, as if it's a good thing to react to any criticism as if it were a personal attack on them. I think *that* is the real issue with regard to these cartoons. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
