Biggest lie of the week: Bhairitu: "Nor am I positing some superiority thing."
Highest truth of the week: Marek: "We're all just a bunch of little shit-monkeys trying to find our bliss." My two cents of the week: Me: Escaping the prison of specialness so that I can hang with my fellow humans without barriers changed my life too. --- In [email protected], "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Comment below: > > ** > > --- In [email protected], "geezerfreak" <geezerfreak@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > > My experience over the years is that as my consciousness rises if I > > > spend any amount of time at all around non-meditators the majority of > > > them start to seem like wild animals. I guess this is because > they are > > > at the mercy of superficial influences which are like "lines drawn on > > > water or lines drawn on air" for many of us. I'm not saying that > all > > > non-meditators are like that as there are some people who just come > > into > > > life at a higher level of evolution than others. Nor am I positing > > some > > > superiority thing. It's just that if you spend any time with them > > > beyond some casual contact they seem to go completely blindly off on > > > tangents that I evolved out of years ago as so can be a little > annoying > > > (especially if they are trying to drag you along with them). > > > > > > My relatives who out of all of them only my oldest nephew learned > > > meditation are always "so busy" and I think "no you just aren't > able to > > > handle life so well any more being blown about by an increasing > amount > > > of chaotic influences in our noisier world." We as meditators > tend to > > > have a stable base of consciousness and the chaos of the world has > less > > > and less influence as our consciousness evolves. > > > > > > I would like to hear other's *experience* on this and not theory. > > > > > Holy cow...where to start. I used to feel that way too when I had been > > in Switzerland for extended periods of time, only in the company of > > course participants and staff. When we would off to do something in > > the "real world" it was a wee bit scary. > > > > Read up on cult behavior and "group think". You'll learn a lot. This > > "us on the inside...those on the outside" feeling...it's classic cult > > group think in my opinion and it isn't healthy. > > > **end** > > One of the things I most like when I quit meditation sometime in the > early or mid 90s (can't even remember the year, now) and have carried > with me since I began again sometime in 2001, was how refreshing it > was just to deal with people as people, with no other distinctions, > and certainly not metric of if they were meditators or not. > > In my work now, where I deal with people that run the whole gamut of > education, propriety and behavior, from the upper echelons like judges > and community leaders to the lower end of child molesters, drug > addicts, murderers and thieves, it seems quite apparent that we're > slicing the baloney pretty thin to come up with an actual spectrum of > humanity. We're all just a bunch of little shit-monkeys trying to > find our bliss. The fact that it seems possible to find that bliss > speaks to its ominpresence more than it does to anyone's particular > purity. >
