All the soft-shoeing sounds like excess layering to me. Maybe y'all been to nice to me, so I don't know what its like on the other end of the gun barrell. But for me, what I have to learn might come in an ugly package. I have exhausted enough options, read enough stupid books, had enough fruitless conversations with argumentative jerks that these things seem secondary. I'd vote to have this forum be as true to practice as possible, and let the positive vs. negative talk jsut work itself out. Practice while you post. Practice while you read. Post about your practice. If one poster is consitently detrimental, and we all clearly think it, then perhaps we banish them to their own misery. Of course we might have just banished a Buddha -- so I for one would not do it if I had a single second guess in me. How much do harsh words sting? I mean, really? Even a fist to face bruises the ego more than the cheekbone. Countless people have charged countless fields of blood with certainty of death, or hunted saber-tooth swallowing rational fear. Have we became so soft that we can only take discussions that won't approach our pride, ego? Are we in that deep? Is our practice that suceptible to derailment?
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