--- In [email protected], "llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am NOT trying to convince you that I am "right" -- I'm > > probably NOT, since I have been "right" about so few things > > in my life (and I'm not even convinced that "I" exists). > > I am NOT trying to convince you that your way of seeing > > things -- about pundits or about how to choose one's > > actions -- is "wrong." For all I know, your way of seeing > > these things may be FAR more "correct" than mine, if such > > a thing as "correct" exists. I'm just expressing my > > OPINION, dude. You may do the same. > > ------Your not right.
But wait. I never claimed TO be "right." :-) > What you stated was not your opinion... Ah, but it was. How you saw it is your business. I leave you to that business. Have a nice day. And if it turns out to be less than a nice day, come back and reread this stuff and notice how you started it. I made NO claim of "superior knowledge," but YOU DO. I made NO ATTEMPT to "intimidate," but YOU HAVE. I mentioned NONE of the techniques you seem to be "correcting" me on below. Mote. Eye. Watch where you're casting. :-) > ...it was your attempt to intimidate through supposed > superior knowledge, but that knowledge was merely copied > from someone else. Moreover, "adjust ones actions" is > not the method of vipassana. Nor of shamatha. Rather, > Shamatha is calm abiding, what TM er's call Samadhi, > and vippassana is the method of gaining Buddha's insight > into ones aggregated nature to discern the meaning of the > words of the Buddha from the Nikaya standpoint. Neither > is used for 'adjusting' ones behavior, but rather is used > for discerning ones behavior. If that leads to 'adjustments' > then that's great, if not, then that's great. Don't attempt > to try to understand a Tantric Buddhist. At any rate, not with > your superficial Buddhist patronymics. By the way, with regard to your use of the word 'patronymic' above, I refer you to the film "The Princess Bride": [Vizzini cuts the rope but The Dread Pirate Roberts is still climbing up] Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE. Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
