--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Barry,
Hi. > I'm not sure how to respond to being a human being > who has missed your point so completely...so infinitely. > Exactly what is your point again? My point was that some folks -- really admirable, spiritually-oriented folks -- seem to have become so enraptured by the First (or even the second) Guru They Ever Met that even after all the silliness they've seen along the Way, they have never considered searching for a second (or third) opinion. That phenomenon -- whatever you choose to call it, and in however many spiritual traditions you may have found it -- strikes me as pretty damned interesting. It's a Class-A Mindfuck. I think it's a phenomenon worthy of investigation. What *is* this feeling that tells some spiritual seekers follow that it's Ok for them to *stop* seeking, that they have found everything worth seeking *for* I don't claim to know whether this tendency to want to cling to one particular guru as the ultimate authority is "better," or to know whether the tendency to keep looking, to see whether somebody else might have more of a clue, is "better." I really don't have a fuckin' clue. I don't know *which* is "better" or "worse." I don't even think I believe in the whole *concept* of "better" and "worse" as valid. So shoot me. I really don't know. Given a choice, I will probably *always* keep searching, no matter who or what I may have run into earlier along the Way. That's just who and what I am, and where my particular predilection leads me. Other seekers have other predilections, and I honestly believe that their predilections are neither "higher" nor "lower" than mine. They are just the predilections that These Kinda People prefer. Now, to be honest, one of the things that still keeps me here at FFL is figuring out the puzzle of why These Kinda People seemingly cannot conceive of having a predilection *without* assuming that their particular predilection is "better" than other predilctions, or that it is the "best" possible predilection. Hey. I'm weird. I *can* conceive of the path that I choose to follow, even if I follow it only for a short time, being no better nor worse nor more important nor less important than any other. It's just the fuckin' path I chose to follow for one short segment of my ongoing sequence of lifetimes, man. You want me to get all serious about this *particular* incarnation and *its* spiritual teachers? Get real. If you have a problem with this, might I suggest that you take it up with the guy who implanted in you the "the natural tendency of the mind is to seek greater fulfillment" meme. And who then told you to *settle* for it, to settle for the first level of fulfillment you stumbled across, as if it were the "best." Me, I took the guy who sold me this meme at his word, and am still following the natural tendency of my mind to this day. I kinda like where it's led me. How's your life going? 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/
