--- In [email protected], "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Living well is the best revenge.
That is really the secret. Yesterday we saw a concerted effort by a couple of people to *bring down* the level of the group to their level, the level of anger and spite and fear and constant argumentation and constant attempts to "prove" many people here "wrong" and them "right." And the *reaction* to that effort, by at least a few people here, was to treat *them* as a non- sequitur and get back to appreciating the shiny moments in their day. So much of the TM movement, and of other spiritual movements, is about "selling futures." And people *buy* this shit. They go around saying things like "Life will be good when X happens." "The world will be at peace when Y happens." "I'll be enlightened when Z happens." And y'know what...if you watch the posts of the people who believe this and say this, and the mindstates behind them, X Y and Z never seem to happen, do they? Do you remember Judy or Lawson *ever* having written a post about how beautiful and fulfilling their day was? And yet other people, some of them on the TM path, some of them on others, consistently rise above all the pettiness and, in the Castanedan sense, "stop the world" and look around at how shiny and beautiful and perfect it is, right here, right now. And they write a lovely post about such a moment, as Curtis and others did yesterday, *despite* the concerted attempts to bring them down and ruin their day. They *refused* to be brought down. They *refused* to have their day ruined. They shrugged off the words of the professional bringdowns as the non- sequiturs they were, and they got back to enjoying the here and now. I say Bravo! Living well really *is* the best revenge. Because the thing that pisses off and terrifies the professional bringdowns of the world more than anything else is to see people they are trying to bring down to their own unhappy level shrug it off and live well *anyway*. One can only feel a momentary pity for them, before getting back to appreciating shinier moments.
