Edgar,
Nope; as in Sports, it's all in the follow-through.
Arrogance is its own undoing, and does no justice to any SUPPOSED message. It
enervates it.
Remember that!
Any intended message falls to the ground. It's the "Law of Karma". Get hip to
it.
Arrogance is not a good Business Model, as you must know.
We don't have to "consider" what arrogance is. Paraphrasing the Supreme Court
Justice describing or hoping to define Pornography, "We know it when we
encounter it".
A Bodhisattva is not arrogant. Only wisdom and compassion guides action.
Arrogance is not in the eyes of the beholder: it is in the background of the
actor. No arrogance, none beheld.
Q.E.D.
Bill! expresses and displays compassion, and says I display more sympathy than
he does. But "a Bodhisattva does what a Bodhisattva's GOTTA do", to paraphrase
John Wayne. That does not include coming from a position of arrogance, ever.
There's no time for it, and it does not arise. Only wisdom and compassion
arise, fitting and proper for the circumstances, EXACTLY. You heard it here
second!
This works only when your practice is up to snuff. If you're thinking about
things... forget about it!
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> We are talking about the message, not the speaker. The authority of the
> message is its truth. It's truth is its authority.
>
> A true message is only considered arrogant by a closed, defensive and
> unawakened mind....
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