--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for your expansion of, if not clarification > of, the sig line. If I may paraphrase the sig line and > its longer version: > > > Three-fourths of all the pain and suffering people > > experience in life are due to the pleasures others > > derive in inflicting it upon them. I want every > > person to be complete in themselves. Your himsa has > > no place in my mission. > > I and *only* I am capable of a life based on service > and love. Almost everyone else is trying to harm you > in some way, and even though they *and* you are barely > worthy of my concern because I'm so evolved and you're > so lost in <ugh> lust and those other <ugh> human > qualitites, I give it anyway, because I'm so above that. > My mission is to convince you how cool I am and how > uncool you are and convince you to change your lives > until they're as cool as mine. Join me in this supremely > enlightened view of the universe. > > :-) > > Dude, ego and elitism are the opposites of ahimsa. I > commend you on your idea of a life of service. I'm > merely commenting that the person you seem to be > serving most is your self. Someone who was *really* > committed to a life of service wouldn't be pointing > out his "specialness" the way you are. > > For what it's worth...
In other words, what I am commenting on is not your path, which is admirable, but your use of language, which I feel undercuts your intent. Your sig state- ment sounds very much like what most wannabee gurus would say to students he wanted to fawn over him. It has a quality of "Everyone else is incapable of showing you what 'true' service is...only *I* am capable of that." In my experience, such a state- ment is proved only by providing real service, not by claiming that one is providing it. Just a suggestion... 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
