--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], a_non_moose_ff <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > <fairfieldlife@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > on 3/21/06 11:31 PM, a_non_moose_ff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > We were in long rounding and someone passed up a note with a > > > > > question about bathing. They said a "teacher" had told them > > I think was making a specific point about bathing during rounding, > > but more broadly, and IMO, more improtantly, was making a deeply > > felt (by him and the audience) broader point: don't extrapolate > > what I say on "this" to "that". > > Yup, that would be my take based on what's been > said here. > > But it seemed to me that the person who originally > related the anecdote
That was me > was presenting it as an example > of MMY denying he had given an instruction that he > had in fact given, i.e., that he had been denying > that he'd ever said not to bathe after program. No that was not at all my point in raising the story. I was giving 4-5 examples of where I felt people incorrectly extrapolated things M said in a specific context to another or more general context: Vak, bathing during rounding, AV and Jyotish pre 1990, etc. > > The other objection was Rick's, where he dismissed > it all as MMY getting upset over something "trivial." > It would hardly have been trivial if everyone had > refrained from bathing while they were rounding for > weeks at a time! Yes. The "specific" was an important thing. Of course M did not want people to refrain from bathing. And the broader point was even more important, IMO > Plus which, this was a very clear-cut example of > foolish extrapolation, hence a good one to use to > make the point of using common sense, which is > certainly not a trivial issue. Yes. > The one other objection, I guess, is that based on > his own descriptions of enlightenment, we should > expect him never to get angry about anything--which > is *itself* a foolish extrapolation, it seems to me. My sense in seeing these "outbursts" live, is that he was not "angry" as we think of it. It was more a drama he was creating to make a point. Like running after workers with a stick. He was neither violently inclined -- nor "out of control" ,"rajo guna inflamed". Like a parent who feigns anger with a child to make it clear "Listen up! This is important!" > <snip> > 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/
