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Truth or Power, opposite directions.
If we discover how power comes about, personal power, the power of conspiracy, which is also called 'chain of command', meaning it's none of your business how orders are conceived, then we are seeing that everything we are told to hold dear is dear only to the plotters.
Who says a prayer wheel does anything? If it feels empty to spin it you are getting closer to the truth, not further from it. What does a chant do but make you a bigot; the animals can't chant. Better to put on a cricket recording, if you don't have crickets.
Who tells us who has become enlightened, whose texts will be called Truth and emphasized, and who is making progress and who is not? Obviously if the power has gone to the exact opposite of the most religious, then the ones climbing the ladder quickest are also the least religious. Approval becomes an insult!
Where is a place not veiled from perception by a conscious intent, a place not cloaked in fiction and secrecy? Wherever you are, be it a monastery or a war-zone, meditation is to find that the accepted is the veil, and from this perception what is real will begin to emerge.
Isn't your own thought working out how to veil your motivations, your goals, your victories, your gains, leaving the observer to exculpate you entirely, collecting you into his experience as a very harmless and candid person? You think out how to be disarming. To whom do you ascribe freedom from such thinking? Such thinking is a degree of power, and better such thinking is more power.
Who says a prayer wheel does anything? If it feels empty to spin it you are getting closer to the truth, not further from it. What does a chant do but make you a bigot; the animals can't chant. Better to put on a cricket recording, if you don't have crickets.
Who tells us who has become enlightened, whose texts will be called Truth and emphasized, and who is making progress and who is not? Obviously if the power has gone to the exact opposite of the most religious, then the ones climbing the ladder quickest are also the least religious. Approval becomes an insult!
Where is a place not veiled from perception by a conscious intent, a place not cloaked in fiction and secrecy? Wherever you are, be it a monastery or a war-zone, meditation is to find that the accepted is the veil, and from this perception what is real will begin to emerge.
Isn't your own thought working out how to veil your motivations, your goals, your victories, your gains, leaving the observer to exculpate you entirely, collecting you into his experience as a very harmless and candid person? You think out how to be disarming. To whom do you ascribe freedom from such thinking? Such thinking is a degree of power, and better such thinking is more power.
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... Alright, sorry for poking fun at somebody who's banned now, I know that's rude.
I actually agree with parts of this diatribe, in the sense that I agree with all self-refuting propositions (except this one
That's an awfully cynical view. Have you lost the ability to be genuine? Or is this a Western thing? I can't help but notice that a lot of Westerners tend to hide behind masks (I'm E. European, myself). My answer to your questions is, No, I don't work out how to veil my motives (what?! Who has the energy for all that calculation and deceit? If this is the way a lot of people think, that scares me), or how to be disarming. Stop the planet, I want to get off, if this is what it's about.
I agree with you about power structures, though.
Are you really banned, or did you choose that label yourself? If you're banned, how can you be posting here?
(side note: is there a set of rules somewhere about forum conduct? or is banishment mainly directed towards trolls and trouble makers?)
Anyway, nothing to worry about.
(a) People are expected to act with politeness, civility, dignity and respect.
You know, standard acceptable social behaviour.
(b) usually, yes.
For our future reference, could you please point out what Tsoanra did wrong? I didn't see anything egregious on this or the other thread, but maybe I missed something. I've actually seen a lot worse on this site, from people who didn't get banned.
See <a href="http://newbuddhist.com/forum/showthread.php?p=150887#post150887">here</a>
Fwiw, I'm female. I'm honestly surprised people don't know that--is my profile picture androgynous-looking by some standards? Artemis is also a goddess name from classical Greek mythology (Diana to the Romans), though admittedly someone not of a Western cultural upbringing (like the poster in question) is less likely to know that.
No, I will not point anything out.
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