--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > In the Buddhist view, the richest, most successful > > > > > person in the world, living in a perfectly-aligned > > > > > S-V house but still attached to his desires, will > > > > > be lost in suffering. Whereas the poor person who > > > > > lives in a cardboard box, if he is not attached to > > > > > his desires, is beyond suffering. > > > > > > > > But what if living in a perfectly aligned S-V house > > > > makes it easier to break the attachment to desires? > > > > > > See above. The longer the primary proponent of S-V > > > hides inside his S-V house, the larger his demands > > > for money get and the more dire his pronouncements > > > of what will happen to the world if he *doesn't* > > > receive the money he's demanding get. > > > > > > Does this look to you as if S-V reduces either one's > > > desires or the attachment to them? > > > > Damn. I could have *sworn* I included a disclaimer > > that I wasn't saying the theory worked. Let me see... > > > > Yup, I did. But you seem to have deleted it from > > your response: > > Did you see anything in the *question* asked of > you above that implies you *did* say that that > the theory worked?
Sure. It was a rhetorical question. And you make it explicit below, when you claim I was "defending" the theory: > I was asking a question to see if you'd answer > instead of sitting on the fence spouting disclaimers > *while* defending the theory. Guess not... :-) Again, you confuse "defending" a theory with stating what the theory *is*. I was doing the latter, not the former. As I said, if one is comparing *views*, it's important to correctly, and completely, *state* the views. Then one can move on to discussing whether one view works better than another. I have no idea whether MMY's S-V theory "works." I don't live in an S-V home and don't know anybody who does. I don't know whether MMY is "hiding" in his S-V home or whether he's too frail to leave it. I don't know whether his demands for money represent desires to which he's attached. And neither do you. But you have a desire to belittle MMY's theories, behavior, and state of consciousness, to which you're obviously very much attached; "what is" is not acceptable to you. For that matter, you're very firmly attached to your desire to belittle anybody who doesn't see things the way you do. > > > > (I'm not saying it does, just that if one is comparing > > > > *views*, it's important to include that aspect of MMY's > > > > view.) ------------------------ 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/
