> Rick, I don't imagine you'll bother reading this,
> because you prefer to rest comfortably in your
> assumptions, but I want it on the record anyway.
I did read it. I just woke up and am going to keep this brief. Maybe more
later if need be. No one is saying you are totally in the wrong and Curtis
or anyone else is totally in the right. No one is throwing absolutes at you,
and if they did, they would probably soften their statements if they were
pointed out. People, even Barry, have acknowledged your good qualities. But
there seems to be unanimous consensus about your "bad" ones. Someone even
went to the trouble of developing a web site:
http://www.aaskolnick.com/junkyarddog/. I have my critics on this forum, and
when any of them criticizes me I don't brush them off or go ballistic trying
to defend myself. I feel somewhat chastised and I take a moment to reflect
on whether their criticism may be true. For instance, I realize that I have
been overly obsessed with the MMY/sex thing and I've done a fair amount of
soul searching on why that bothers me so much. If virtually everyone who
cared to comment were repeatedly pointing out to me that I had a tendency
which seriously annoyed them, I think it would result in some reflection.
Why are we on this forum? Why have we been meditating all these years? We
realize that our original perspective may be flawed or occluded and we want
to clarify it and see things as they really are. That's what enlightenment
is, as I understand it. To expend large amounts of time and energy pointing
out the flaws of others and demanding that THEY be honest is to misdirect
our attention and retard our evolution. To quote Byron Katie, "turn it
around." To quote Jesus, "You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your
own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your
brother's eye." (Matthew 7:5)
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