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> On Nov 15, 2013, at 10:34 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Andre, > > I didn't state that anatta was the same as 'small self'. I'll leave you with > your personal evaluations. There is nothing here I wish to discuss. > > Notice the questions to Andre began with "who" and "whom"? The questions are pertaining to anatta, or small self? > > Marsha > > > > > >> On Nov 15, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Andre <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Marsha to Ron: >> Notice the questions to Andre began with "who" and "whom"? The questions are >> pertaining to anatta, or small self? >> >> Andre: >> Who the heck do you think you are, on this discuss other than anatta? And, >> by the way, you have it wrong. Anatta refers to 'no-self' which is different >> to small self. To whom is Ron directing his question other than anatta which >> you term 'small self'??? This is the world we live in and what we are!! >> Sq...we ARE these patterns. And, oh...Big Self (no-self) has nothing to say. >> It is silent...I experience this several times a day. But that is not the >> one writing these lines. >> >> Marsha: >> The questions in no way were meant to indicate that "the "right way" means >> whatever one wants it to mean." >> >> Andre: >> Marsha, there is something fundamentally wrong with the way you go about >> this discuss. I'll refer to your 'apology' earlier today: >> >> 'There is so much not available in an email communication. I only see words >> on a screen without any emotional cues. I tend not to want to make things >> personal for that reason. I don't really know you at all. If I misread you >> tone, I apologize. I too easily fall into the pattern of using past >> experiences.' >> >> Andre continues: >> >> Do you not register that a human being types these words? Do you ONLY see >> words and nothing else? >> >> This really confirms my (and some others') idea that you are so suspicious >> of the intellectual level (in your mind= SOM)that you do not see or feel or >> hear any living patterns behind the written language. Anti-intellectualism >> to a sickly extreme. >> >> Do you think that you, on this forum discussing Pirsig's MoQ, are addressed >> as anything other than your 'small self? (Yes, the world and all it's >> inhabitants are an illusion...it's analogies all the way down and up and >> left and right and centered and below and wherever you want them to be) AND >> SO ARE YOU. >> So why not behave as part of that illusion if you want to seriously engage >> in discussions on this Discuss. >> Avoiding discussions and appealing to 'anatta' (i.e. not-self) won't win you >> any flavours or favours. It is a sickly way to escape...because that is what >> it is. An ESCAPE and NOT a constructive way to creatively move a discussion >> along or throw a completely different light on an old topic or simply answer >> a question. NO! You use it as a way to wriggle through, to slither your way >> out of any and every situation. >> >> You asked me the other day on your comment that 'If your speech is not >> useful and beneficial,...it is better to keep silent.': >> >> I gave you my view and you answered:Record of what, and interpreted by whom? >> Who is at the core of such opinion? >> >> It is very obvious that the 'record' you are referring to is your own (just >> check the archives). Interpreted by many readers and participants of this >> discuss. Who or what is at the core of such an opinion? >> >> I'll tell you Marsha: the one who wrote this is the one who reads this. And >> if that is not clear enough: the one who reads this is the one who wrote >> this. >> >> Stop hiding and own up! > 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 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
