Ron, I do not "shout down" anyone, nor am I "railing against" anything. For you to pose such questions is called begging the question, and I bet you know better. And you are scrambling and misrepresenting topics and various aspects of what I've said, where if I tried to untangle them I would only create more of a mess.
Marsha On Aug 9, 2013, at 9:02 AM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Marsha: > And, dmb, here is what RMP has to say about meditation: > > RMP: > "The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience > but to bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing, static, > intellectual attachments of the past. " > > Marsha: > There is nothing anti-intellectual suggested in practicing meditation, and it > is a practice for working on the 'self' just as RMP explains the _motorcycle > maintenance metaphor_ to represent: > > > [Ron] > Well then WHY, when someone here tries to discuss the practice of working on > the 'self' all you do is shout them down > for even considering the 'self' valuable enough to work on? you send post > after post about how the self is an illusion > and not real. A mirage. Why would anyone waste time on a mirage? > Therefore I am not prone to believe there is honosty in these words. > > Meditation is a good place to start but it certainly does not end there. When > one works on the 'self' reflection and development > of criticle thinking skills are just as valuable if one wishes to better > their situation. > > Sounds to me like there is a hell of alot of back peddeling going on, Ian > included. Just who are these narrow viewed > context 2 SOM ers that Ian is always railing against? He sez he agrees with > Dave B. but thats not what most of his > posts are saying. > > If they indeed feel this way, then exactly WHO are they railing against? > > Marsha, Ian, who are you railing against if you agree? > > .. > .. > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
