> It's about the Big Picture - not the long view.
Different metaphore, same meaning > > The Big Picture is no less without integrity etc as any other scale of > comprehension. > > Perhaps you're having problems with distinguishing between the > faculties of discrimination and being judgmental (one is related to > the mind and the other the heart)? I don't think so let's check: Judgmental: 1. involving the use or exercise of judgment. 2. tending to make moral judgments: to avoid a judgmental approach in dealing with divorced couples. Discrimination: 1. an act or instance of discriminating. 2. treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination. 3. the power of making fine distinctions; discriminating judgment: She chose the colors with great discrimination. 4. Archaic. something that serves to differentiate. I think I have it straight. Being judgemental is not always pejoritive. Everyone doesn't use discrimination in the way MMY does. > > > > > The Indian myth of the yugas may or may not be accurate to historical > > fact, but it doesn't give anyone the right to screw people over or be > > unethical. I don't think people should "take it easy" when confronted > > with unethical or cruel actions. > > > > Distancing oneself from your own "ideas and preconceptions of how > > things aught to be" sounds like a detached existence without any heart > > or self-knowledge. Our minds shouldn't be so open that our brains > > fall out. Personal values and insights into life are hard earned and > > deserve respect. > > Well, in the business these people find themselves their personal > values and insight concern nothing less than their selfs as the Self, > which may - or may not - have a set of insights and values that are > unique, or at least hard to come by. > > Given the forum this discussion is taking place in, is this not your > business too? I don't relate to the term "Self" the way you do I believe. I am not a seeker or knower of a higher Self. > > > Just because we are wrong sometimes and our > > knowledge is always growing doesn't mean we can't have any knowledge > > that we can be confident about, until evidence shows us a better way > > to think. > > > > Years of living gives us the advantage that we can know some stuff. > > Not absolute knowledge in my case, but some convictions that guide my > > life. If a person tries to screw me over, I judge that as wrong > > without any insecurity or self doubt. No one can convince me that > > they have a "good" reason for hurting me. > > > > The Kaplans earned the right to their judgments about TMO. It may not > > match your own, but they were sincere students of MMY and I'll bet > > they came to their conclusions about the organization at a cost of > > personal pain and struggle. If you are preaching being > > non-judgmental, perhaps you could apply it to your judgments of their > > own personal realization on their path through life and their evolving > > relationship with TMO and MMY. > > > > What if I told you that whatever might befall you, your family or > anyone you love, you have no cosmic "right" or "license" to be judgmental? > > Why? > > Because you are the creator of it all. Then I would say we do not share this aspect of our world views. I am just a hairless ape with finger picks and a harp on a rack. I do not create everything I experience, I am often reacting to the actions of others that I did not create. I don't accept that you have a higher insight into reality, cosmic or otherwise, than I do. > > Chew on that you %&)#&%)(&ยค/()=! It wouldn't surprise me if I was actually many of the words that these symbols represent! Thanks for responding. I enjoyed it. > > :(: > > > [snip] >
