Dear Turq, the world isn't bettered by merely noticing the sunshine and the
birds. As long as there is suffering in it, there are things that need worked
out. TM was a bliss-based movement, that taught us all to think positive
thoughts and life would be just groovey. Turned out that wasn't so. Enjoy your
take on life and your way of living it, and you can even continue enjoying
putting the rest of us down (which apparently isn't negative when YOU do it).
But for my part, I'll continue calling things as I see them in this life, and
when I smell blood or garbage I won't be calling it roses.
- Bronte
TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I log off for the evening, having written a little
something about righteous anger as a drug, and as
an addiction, and what do I find when I check FFL
in the morning?
92 new posts, only 5 or 6 of which are *not* some
form of people getting carried away behind (and
getting off on) righteous anger.
My congratulations to the 2 or 3 people who resisted
the invitation to wallow in righteous anger about
Nazis or TM blissnazis or the person they like to
hate most on FFL or similar subjects, and found
something positive to focus on. You're the only
ones here in my estimation who aren't settling for
the cheap high of baser emotions like righteous
anger and mistaking that rush for a spiritual high.
I've got to admit, as much as I poked fun along
with Curtis at Cliff Rees' assessment of Fairfield
Life, he was onto something.
Over here, the sun is out, birds are singing, and my
meditation this morning was clear and thoughtless.
I have a wonderful day to look forward to, one
that I will try not to pollute by reading this
particular spiritual chat group.
Just as a tip, the harder it is to tear yourself
away from a rant, the more that rant -- and the
state of attention it represents -- has you in
its grasp, and the more you are a slave to that
state of attention.
My challenge? Just TRY to write something purely
positive, without one word or sentence in it that
puts down someone else or some philosophy or some
idea. See if you can do it.
I'm willing to bet real cash money that many of
you cannot. Rick can. Ron can. Marek can and even
Curtis can. But the people who obviously consider
themselves superior to these folks can't.
Try it.
The harder it is for you, the more lost you have
become in low mindstates and base emotions.
Angela, we *get* it that you have a tendency to
see everything in life filtered through your
experiences growing up in Nazi Germany. But *can*
you write about anything else? Something positive?
I'm not convinced you can.
Bronte, same challenge. Try to post something that
isn't putting down some idea or some person who
espouses that idea. Off, I can't even *remember*
a post of yours that wasn't criticizing someone
else. It's not even worth mentioning Edg and Judy;
they are both one-trick-ponies when it comes to
the subject matter of their posts. If they didn't
have something to bitch about, they wouldn't have
anything to say. Even Jim, who often *does* post
postive things here, got sucked into this stuff.
Try it. Try writing one post that doesn't rag on
*anyone* or *anything*. See if you can do it.
I am not convinced you still can.
-
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