>> From: Terry Blanton >> >> Perhaps you should "know" less. I recommend a 30 day retreat in a >> Buddhist monastery. > >> Terry
> From Remi Cornwall > > Why, wanna shut me away for speaking my mind?? > Mr. Cornwall, FWIW, Ah, the right to speak one's mind. Well.... You seem to know a lot of things. At least it seems to me that you've been spending a lot of time lately on Vortex-l revealing to the vortex masses your personal opinions on a plethora of subjects. Truth be known, I've been guilty of occasionally spouting my own personal philosophies on this forum as well, so who am I to judge the pontifications of others when I have done the dirty deed myself. Nevertheless, a useful tool to acquire when one feels moved to post another collection of personal revelations for the benefit of the masses is knowing when one is actually posting something useful versus when one is just pontificating just to see one's writing in print. Another unfortunate side effect of collecting a lot of opinions is the inevitable tendency of ending up having to defend all those collected opinions. It's as if all those complex and sophisticated opinions have been set in place as armor to obfuscate a vague and uneasy awareness that deep down inside one's Inner-Most Psyche one fears the possibility that one doesn't have a clue as to how the universe really works, and facing that possibility is just too terrifying to even acknowledge. I suspect that may have been behind Terry's recent Buddhist-like suggestion that you might actually benefit a tad by practicing a form of self-awareness which ironically involves a little less of the opinion making variety, and a little more of what one could call the art of simple awareness of one's immediate surroundings - without immediately passing any opinionated judgments on what one is perceiving. Setting all those opinions aside on occasion is at the core of many eastern-like practices, like Buddhism, where the master teaches the student how to rediscover the core of who and what one really is. As for me, Grasshopper is still learning that art. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
