Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Dear Friends in the Sangha: About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer and posted one of my first of many (wisdom filled :-) messages to a list that I belonged to. A few minutes later, in response to the message, I received a private reply. It simply said, "Blah, Blah, Blah." Evidently my insights were simply "Blah, Blah, Blah" to this gentleman. I did not respond to him but posted another "inspirational" message on the same list. Again, his private reply came to me, "Blah, Blah, and More Blah!" I remembered it this morning and had to smile. When the Blah, Blah, Blah of life overtakes us, may we nourish each other in the spirit of love and healing. Hey, here is looking at you kid! :-). Lots of love Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Oh Harsha.. Why do you tempt us so? It is so difficult to resist. I will count to ten. No sorry, it didn't work. Blah.. stop it hands... blah... I am so sorry.. I am not responsible for sam's actions.. he thinks he has a sense of humor.. forgive him please.. blah.. Lots of love Harsha.. thanks for the laugh and the temptation... :-)..Sam - harshaimtm Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:23 PM My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah Dear Friends in the Sangha:About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer and posted one of my first of many (wisdom filled :-) messages to a list that I belonged to.A few minutes later, in response to the message, I received a private reply. It simply said, "Blah, Blah, Blah." Evidently my insights were simply "Blah, Blah, Blah" to this gentleman. I did not respond to him but posted another "inspirational" message on the same list. Again, his private reply came to me, "Blah, Blah, and More Blah!"I remembered it this morning and had to smile.When the Blah, Blah, Blah of life overtakes us, may we nourish each other in the spirit of love and healing.Hey, here is looking at you kid! :-).Lots of loveHarsha/join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 , "harshaimtm" wrote: > Dear Friends in the Sangha: > > About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer Dear Harsha, You shouldn't be sitting on your computer :-) Love, Vicki > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 - skiplaurel Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:47 PM Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah , "harshaimtm" wrote:> Dear Friends in the Sangha:>> About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer Dear Harsha,You shouldn't be sitting on your computer :-)Love, Vicki Oh, Vicki... That is as funny as Harsha's post, which, by the way, gave me a good hearty long laugh. I was thinking about you today, Vicki, and wondering how you and Bob were doing :-) Glad to see you posting...no wisdom here, just a fond hello. Love, Joyce >>/join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 , "harshaimtm" wrote: > Dear Friends in the Sangha: > > About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer and posted one of my > first of many (wisdom filled :-) messages to a list that I belonged > to. > > A few minutes later, in response to the message, I received a > private reply. It simply said, "Blah, Blah, Blah." Namaste H, To avoid the blahs stick to aphorisms and one liners hahahah.....ONS..Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 - skiplaurel Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:47 PM Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah , "harshaimtm" wrote:> Dear Friends in the Sangha:>> About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer Dear Harsha,You shouldn't be sitting on your computer :-)Love, Vicki>>/join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma Attachment: (image/jpeg) thinker_50_dk.jpg [not stored] Attachment: (image/gif) blah.gif [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 This is very funny, Harsha. One person's inspiration is another person's Blah, I guess. For me, its the same way with most "inspirational" poetry. I just want to say "blah blah blah" to it all, most of the time. But I know most people like it. So I've learned to keep my "blah's" to myself. I've learned that not every inspirational poet can be Rumi, or Hafiz, or the Psalmist King David. But this leads to something interesting: It isn't "blah" because I don't like poetry, it's blah because of my fierce love for poetry, which leads to high standards. So I don't think the "blah" reaction is anything but the quest for impossible perfection. David At 02:23 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote: >Dear Friends in the Sangha: > >About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer and posted one of my >first of many (wisdom filled :-) messages to a list that I belonged >to. > >A few minutes later, in response to the message, I received a >private reply. It simply said, "Blah, Blah, Blah." > >Evidently my insights were simply "Blah, Blah, Blah" to this >gentleman. > >I did not respond to him but posted another "inspirational" message >on the same list. > >Again, his private reply came to me, "Blah, Blah, and More Blah!" > >I remembered it this morning and had to smile. > >When the Blah, Blah, Blah of life overtakes us, may we nourish each >other in the spirit of love and healing. > >Hey, here is looking at you kid! :-). > >Lots of love >Harsha > > > > > > >/join > > > > > >"Love itself is the actual form of God." > >Sri Ramana > >In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma > Links > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Dear Harsha, Maybe, I am missing the point but what exactly is the purpose of a group with 644 members if it is not to share the ...blah, blah, blah? Because, what else you can share with electronic messages, if it is not the ... blah, blah, blah. Yes, you can talk about love but if you term every talk as blah, blah, blah then even the talk about love, Ramana is also just a talk and ultimately just ...blah, blah, blah. And, what exactly are we, other than ...blah, blah, blah. Or, would you like to get some better ...blah, blah, blah, another version of ...blah, blah, blah, a version of ... than ...blah, blah, blah that your mind agrees with, perhaps. I am just curious. Thanks for your love and kindness. [Nothing New Below] , David Hodges <dhodges@o...> wrote: > This is very funny, Harsha. > > One person's inspiration is another person's Blah, I guess. > > For me, its the same way with most "inspirational" poetry. I just want to > say "blah blah blah" to it all, most of the time. But I know most people > like it. So I've learned to keep my "blah's" to myself. I've learned that > not every inspirational poet can be Rumi, or Hafiz, or the Psalmist King David. > > But this leads to something interesting: > > It isn't "blah" because I don't like poetry, it's blah because of my fierce > love for poetry, which leads to high standards. > > So I don't think the "blah" reaction is anything but the quest for > impossible perfection. > > David > > At 02:23 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote: > >Dear Friends in the Sangha: > > > >About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer and posted one of my > >first of many (wisdom filled :-) messages to a list that I belonged > >to. > > > >A few minutes later, in response to the message, I received a > >private reply. It simply said, "Blah, Blah, Blah." > > > >Evidently my insights were simply "Blah, Blah, Blah" to this > >gentleman. > > > >I did not respond to him but posted another "inspirational" message > >on the same list. > > > >Again, his private reply came to me, "Blah, Blah, and More Blah!" > > > >I remembered it this morning and had to smile. > > > >When the Blah, Blah, Blah of life overtakes us, may we nourish each > >other in the spirit of love and healing. > > > >Hey, here is looking at you kid! :-). > > > >Lots of love > >Harsha > > > > > > > > > > > > > >/join > > > > > > > > > > > >"Love itself is the actual form of God." > > > >Sri Ramana > > > >In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma > > Links > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Dear Harsha, I imagine that you had a very clear idea of what you meant when you posted this message, but to someone else, just reading what you have written, the meaning is nowhere near as clear. On the face of it, it could be taken to mean, "Don't take any notice of anything Harsha says, or writes, because whatever he writes has no more value than the utterances of a parrot that has been trained to say "blah blah blah." Obviously this is not what you mean, because, from time to time, you reprove members of the chatroom for infringing the rules of the room. In fact, you you take yourself pretty seriously, you consider yourself to have sufficient clarity and gravity to make and enforce rules of discussion, and you expect members of this association to take notice of your postings -- you don't expect your postings to be greeted with hoots of contempt, "That's just Harsha going on with more of his customary blah, don't take any notice of him." Perhaps you meant that seven years ago, before all your confusion had been banished by divine Grace, what you thought was wisdom was no wiser than the blah of ordinary unenlightened folk. And now, looking back on those years from the heights of your present clarity, you can understand how ordinary unenlightened folk can take their ego-driven blah to be pearls of wisdom. And as a result of this you are recommending that we ordinary unenlightened folk in this chatroom should be more humble about our postings, that it would be becoming of us not to strike poses as "The Authority on things both Temporal and Spiritual." It takes a bit of courage to state, upfront, "This is advice coming from above; this is my clarity speaking to your confusion." But if this really is what you are saying, I would advise you to take your courage in both hands and be totally unequivocal about it. Of course you would lose members of the chatroom. In any chatroom there is a large component who are not so much looking for light as looking for a platform from which they can disseminate their personal opinions. And the way I see it, (I could be wrong) those personal opinions usually don't amount to much more than the spiritually correct, sanctimonious platitudes of the day. Most of them are totally focused on the events and forms that occur in the realm of time; almost none are concerned with the changeless, that in which the events and forms occur. And when did you last read a post that looks at this world, and the people of the world, including the letter-writer, as characters and props in a dream in the universal mind? Love Warwick ' >Dear Friends in the Sangha: > >About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer and posted one of my >first of many (wisdom filled :-) messages to a list that I belonged >to. > >A few minutes later, in response to the message, I received a >private reply. It simply said, "Blah, Blah, Blah." > >Evidently my insights were simply "Blah, Blah, Blah" to this >gentleman. > >I did not respond to him but posted another "inspirational" message >on the same list. > >Again, his private reply came to me, "Blah, Blah, and More Blah!" > >I remembered it this morning and had to smile. > >When the Blah, Blah, Blah of life overtakes us, may we nourish each >other in the spirit of love and healing. > >Hey, here is looking at you kid! :-). > >Lots of love >Harsha > > > > > > >/join > > > > > >"Love itself is the actual form of God." > >Sri Ramana > >In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma > Links > > > > /join "Love itself is the actual form of God." Sri Ramana In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma / Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 , David Hodges <dhodges@o...> wrote: > This is very funny, Harsha. > > One person's inspiration is another person's Blah, I guess. > > For me, its the same way with most "inspirational" poetry. I just want to > say "blah blah blah" to it all, most of the time. But I know most people > like it. So I've learned to keep my "blah's" to myself. I've learned that > not every inspirational poet can be Rumi, or Hafiz, or the Psalmist King David. > > But this leads to something interesting: > > It isn't "blah" because I don't like poetry, it's blah because of my fierce > love for poetry, which leads to high standards. > > So I don't think the "blah" reaction is anything but the quest for > impossible perfection. > > David ********************* I know that you have very high standards and integrity when it comes to poetry David. Your genuine love and recognition of poetry and good writing comes through. (For those who may not know David has an M.A in creative writing and poetry). Whenever I see a good poem or story posted on the list, a really good one, I can tell that you will enjoy it. Love, Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 You understand the humor so well Sam! :-). Thanks Love, Harsha , Sam <S.Pasiencier@p...> wrote: > Oh Harsha.. Why do you tempt us so? > > It is so difficult to resist. > > I will count to ten. > > No sorry, it didn't work. > > Blah.. > > stop it hands... > > blah... I am so sorry.. I am not responsible for sam's actions.. he thinks he has a sense of humor.. forgive him please.. > > blah.. > > Lots of love Harsha.. thanks for the laugh and the temptation... :- )..Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Dear Warwick, Thanks for writing. Can you clarify it a bit. Love, Harsha , "Warwick Wakefield" <formandsubstance@t...> wrote: > > Dear Harsha, > > I imagine that you had a very clear idea of what you meant when you posted > this message, > but to someone else, just reading what you have written, the meaning is > nowhere near as clear. > > On the face of it, it could be taken to mean, "Don't take any notice of > anything Harsha says, or writes, because whatever he writes has no more > value than the utterances of a parrot that has been trained to say "blah > blah blah." > > Obviously this is not what you mean, because, from time to time, you > reprove members of the chatroom for infringing the rules of the room. > In fact, you you take yourself pretty seriously, you consider yourself to > have sufficient clarity and gravity to make and enforce rules of discussion, > and you expect members of this association to take notice of your > postings -- you don't expect your postings to be greeted with hoots of > contempt, "That's just Harsha going on with more of his customary blah, > don't take any notice of him." > > Perhaps you meant that seven years ago, before all your confusion had been > banished by divine Grace, what you thought was wisdom was no wiser than the > blah of ordinary unenlightened folk. And now, looking back on those years > from the heights of your present clarity, you can understand how ordinary > unenlightened folk can take their ego-driven blah to be pearls of wisdom. > And as a result of this you are recommending that we ordinary unenlightened > folk in this chatroom should be more humble about our postings, that it > would be becoming of us not to strike poses as "The Authority on things both > Temporal and Spiritual." > > It takes a bit of courage to state, upfront, "This is advice coming from > above; this is my clarity speaking to your confusion." > But if this really is what you are saying, I would advise you to take your > courage in both hands and be totally unequivocal about it. > Of course you would lose members of the chatroom. In any chatroom there is a > large component who are not so much looking for light as looking for a > platform from which they can disseminate their personal opinions. And the > way I see it, (I could be wrong) those personal opinions usually don't > amount to much more than the spiritually correct, sanctimonious platitudes > of the day. > Most of them are totally focused on the events and forms that occur in the > realm of time; almost none are concerned with the changeless, that in which > the events and forms occur. And when did you last read a post that looks at > this world, and the people of the world, including the letter- writer, as > characters and props in a dream in the universal mind? > > Love > > Warwick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Dear Adithya Comming, Thanks for your post. I don't think you are missing anything. After seeing your name, I keep wanting to sign my name as Harsha Going Love, Harsha , "adithya_comming" <adithya_comming> wrote: > Dear Harsha, > > Maybe, I am missing the point but what exactly is the purpose of a > group with 644 members if it is not to share the ...blah, blah, blah? > > Because, what else you can share with electronic messages, if it is > not the ... blah, blah, blah. Yes, you can talk about love but if > you term every talk as blah, blah, blah then even the talk about > love, Ramana is also just a talk and ultimately just ...blah, blah, > blah. > > And, what exactly are we, other than ...blah, blah, blah. > > Or, would you like to get some better ...blah, blah, blah, another > version of ...blah, blah, blah, a version of ... than ...blah, blah, > blah that your mind agrees with, perhaps. > > I am just curious. > > > Thanks for your love and kindness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 David Hodges wrote: >This is very funny, Harsha. > > Hi David, Here goes the same: what is funny for one isn't for another. >One person's inspiration is another person's Blah, I guess. > > There's more to pranayama than breathing exercises, inspiration is prana too: no need to express the energy. >For me, its the same way with most "inspirational" poetry. I just want to >say "blah blah blah" to it all, most of the time. But I know most people >like it. So I've learned to keep my "blah's" to myself. I've learned that >not every inspirational poet can be Rumi, or Hafiz, or the Psalmist King David. > > The art of expressing requires the combination of skill and talent whereas silence needs nothing no? >But this leads to something interesting: > >It isn't "blah" because I don't like poetry, it's blah because of my fierce >love for poetry, which leads to high standards. > > Doesn't that translate to a matter of taste? It does unless you are able to show what such standards consist of. >So I don't think the "blah" reaction is anything but the quest for >impossible perfection. > > No perfection without the definition for it. Your definition, impossible :-D The best one to shut down communications :-) Jan >David > >At 02:23 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote: > > >>Dear Friends in the Sangha: >> >>About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer and posted one of my >>first of many (wisdom filled :-) messages to a list that I belonged >>to. >> >>A few minutes later, in response to the message, I received a >>private reply. It simply said, "Blah, Blah, Blah." >> >>Evidently my insights were simply "Blah, Blah, Blah" to this >>gentleman. >> >>I did not respond to him but posted another "inspirational" message >>on the same list. >> >>Again, his private reply came to me, "Blah, Blah, and More Blah!" >> >>I remembered it this morning and had to smile. >> >>When the Blah, Blah, Blah of life overtakes us, may we nourish each >>other in the spirit of love and healing. >> >>Hey, here is looking at you kid! :-). >> >>Lots of love >>Harsha >> >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Dear Harsha, the whole message was explanatory; which part would you like me to clarify? Just highlight the part you would like me to go into more deeply and I'll be happy to oblige. Love Warwick Dear Warwick,Thanks for writing. Can you clarify it a bit.Love,Harsha> Dear Harsha,> > I imagine that you had a very clear idea of what you meant when you posted> this message,> but to someone else, just reading what you have written, the meaning is> nowhere near as clear.> > On the face of it, it could be taken to mean, "Don't take any notice of> anything Harsha says, or writes, because whatever he writes has no more> value than the utterances of a parrot that has been trained to say "blah> blah blah."> > Obviously this is not what you mean, because, from time to time, you> reprove members of the chatroom for infringing the rules of the room.> In fact, you you take yourself pretty seriously, you consider yourself to> have sufficient clarity and gravity to make and enforce rules of discussion,> and you expect members of this association to take notice of your> postings -- you don't expect your postings to be greeted with hoots of> contempt, "That's just Harsha going on with more of his customary blah,> don't take any notice of him."> > Perhaps you meant that seven years ago, before all your confusion had been> banished by divine Grace, what you thought was wisdom was no wiser than the> blah of ordinary unenlightened folk. And now, looking back on those years> from the heights of your present clarity, you can understand how ordinary> unenlightened folk can take their ego-driven blah to be pearls of wisdom.> And as a result of this you are recommending that we ordinary unenlightened> folk in this chatroom should be more humble about our postings, that it> would be becoming of us not to strike poses as "The Authority on things both> Temporal and Spiritual."> > It takes a bit of courage to state, upfront, "This is advice coming from> above; this is my clarity speaking to your confusion."> But if this really is what you are saying, I would advise you to take your> courage in both hands and be totally unequivocal about it.> Of course you would lose members of the chatroom. In any chatroom there is a> large component who are not so much looking for light as looking for a> platform from which they can disseminate their personal opinions. And the> way I see it, (I could be wrong) those personal opinions usually don't> amount to much more than the spiritually correct, sanctimonious platitudes> of the day.> Most of them are totally focused on the events and forms that occur in the> realm of time; almost none are concerned with the changeless, that in which> the events and forms occur. And when did you last read a post that looks at> this world, and the people of the world, including the letter-writer, as> characters and props in a dream in the universal mind?> > Love> > Warwick/join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma LinksTo visit your group on the web, go to:/ To from this group, send an email to: Your use of Groups is subject to the Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Yes, clarify the nature of laughter. Where does it come from and where does it go? Love, Harsha , "Warwick Wakefield" <formandsubstance@t...> wrote: > Dear Harsha, > > the whole message was explanatory; which part would you like me to clarify? > Just highlight the part you would like me to go into more deeply and I'll be happy to oblige. > > Love > > Warwick > > > Dear Warwick, > > Thanks for writing. Can you clarify it a bit. > > Love, > Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 , "Lady Joyce" <shaantih@c...> wrote: > > - > skiplaurel > > Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:47 PM > Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah > > > , "harshaimtm" wrote: > > Dear Friends in the Sangha: > > > > About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer > > Dear Harsha, > > You shouldn't be sitting on your computer :-) > > Love, Vicki > Oh, Vicki... > > That is as funny as Harsha's post, which, by the way, gave me a good hearty long laugh. > I was thinking about you today, Vicki, and wondering how you and Bob were doing :-) > Glad to see you posting...no wisdom here, just a fond hello. > > Love, > > Joyce Yes how are you and Bob doing Vicki. Wishing you all well. Love, Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 , "harshaimtm" wrote: > Dear Adithya Comming, > > Thanks for your post. I don't think you are missing anything. > After seeing your name, I keep wanting to sign my name as > > Harsha Going That sounds quite good Harsha. If you would like I can start calling you Harsha_Going. Thanks for your love and kindness. Thanks a lot. Arvind (yes, that is my passport name). Singh is my last name. > > Love, > Harsha > > , "adithya_comming" > <adithya_comming> wrote: > > Dear Harsha, > > > > Maybe, I am missing the point but what exactly is the purpose of a > > group with 644 members if it is not to share the ...blah, blah, > blah? > > > > Because, what else you can share with electronic messages, if it > is > > not the ... blah, blah, blah. Yes, you can talk about love but if > > you term every talk as blah, blah, blah then even the talk about > > love, Ramana is also just a talk and ultimately just ...blah, > blah, > > blah. > > > > And, what exactly are we, other than ...blah, blah, blah. > > > > Or, would you like to get some better ...blah, blah, blah, another > > version of ...blah, blah, blah, a version of ... than ...blah, > blah, > > blah that your mind agrees with, perhaps. > > > > I am just curious. > > > > > > Thanks for your love and kindness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Dear Harsha, in reply to my long and very carefully-considered letter you wrote, "Can you clarify it a bit?" When I asked you which part of my letter you would like me to clarify, you wrote, "clarify the nature of laughter. Where does it come from and where does it go?" Harsha, there was no mention of laughter in my previous posting. Are you confusing my posting with that from someone else? I will post below a copy of my previous letter; that might help you to locate the parts that you want me to delve into at greater length. Love Warwick Dear Harsha,I imagine that you had a very clear idea of what you meant when you postedthis message,but to someone else, just reading what you have written, the meaning isnowhere near as clear.On the face of it, it could be taken to mean, "Don't take any notice ofanything Harsha says, or writes, because whatever he writes has no morevalue than the utterances of a parrot that has been trained to say "blahblah blah."Obviously this is not what you mean, because, from time to time, youreprove members of the chatroom for infringing the rules of the room.In fact, you you take yourself pretty seriously, you consider yourself tohave sufficient clarity and gravity to make and enforce rules of discussion,and you expect members of this association to take notice of yourpostings -- you don't expect your postings to be greeted with hoots ofcontempt, "That's just Harsha going on with more of his customary blah,don't take any notice of him."Perhaps you meant that seven years ago, before all your confusion had beenbanished by divine Grace, what you thought was wisdom was no wiser than theblah of ordinary unenlightened folk. And now, looking back on those yearsfrom the heights of your present clarity, you can understand how ordinaryunenlightened folk can take their ego-driven blah to be pearls of wisdom.And as a result of this you are recommending that we ordinary unenlightenedfolk in this chatroom should be more humble about our postings, that itwould be becoming of us not to strike poses as "The Authority on things bothTemporal and Spiritual."It takes a bit of courage to state, upfront, "This is advice coming fromabove; this is my clarity speaking to your confusion."But if this really is what you are saying, I would advise you to take yourcourage in both hands and be totally unequivocal about it.Of course you would lose members of the chatroom. In any chatroom there is alarge component who are not so much looking for light as looking for aplatform from which they can disseminate their personal opinions. And theway I see it, (I could be wrong) those personal opinions usually don'tamount to much more than the spiritually correct, sanctimonious platitudesof the day.Most of them are totally focused on the events and forms that occur in therealm of time; almost none are concerned with the changeless, that in whichthe events and forms occur. And when did you last read a post that looks atthis world, and the people of the world, including the letter-writer, ascharacters and props in a dream in the universal mind?LoveWarwick/join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma LinksTo visit your group on the web, go to:/ To from this group, send an email to: Your use of Groups is subject to the Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Thanks for the first giggle of the day Harsha... (I should know, I understand humor) Sam, peeking through his fingers... - harshaimtm Friday, April 16, 2004 4:54 AM Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah Dear Warwick,Thanks for writing. Can you clarify it a bit.Love,Harsha, "Warwick Wakefield" <formandsubstance@t...> wrote:> > Dear Harsha,> > I imagine that you had a very clear idea of what you meant when you posted> this message,> but to someone else, just reading what you have written, the meaning is> nowhere near as clear.> > On the face of it, it could be taken to mean, "Don't take any notice of> anything Harsha says, or writes, because whatever he writes has no more> value than the utterances of a parrot that has been trained to say "blah> blah blah."> > Obviously this is not what you mean, because, from time to time, you> reprove members of the chatroom for infringing the rules of the room.> In fact, you you take yourself pretty seriously, you consider yourself to> have sufficient clarity and gravity to make and enforce rules of discussion,> and you expect members of this association to take notice of your> postings -- you don't expect your postings to be greeted with hoots of> contempt, "That's just Harsha going on with more of his customary blah,> don't take any notice of him."> > Perhaps you meant that seven years ago, before all your confusion had been> banished by divine Grace, what you thought was wisdom was no wiser than the> blah of ordinary unenlightened folk. And now, looking back on those years> from the heights of your present clarity, you can understand how ordinary> unenlightened folk can take their ego-driven blah to be pearls of wisdom.> And as a result of this you are recommending that we ordinary unenlightened> folk in this chatroom should be more humble about our postings, that it> would be becoming of us not to strike poses as "The Authority on things both> Temporal and Spiritual."> > It takes a bit of courage to state, upfront, "This is advice coming from> above; this is my clarity speaking to your confusion."> But if this really is what you are saying, I would advise you to take your> courage in both hands and be totally unequivocal about it.> Of course you would lose members of the chatroom. In any chatroom there is a> large component who are not so much looking for light as looking for a> platform from which they can disseminate their personal opinions. And the> way I see it, (I could be wrong) those personal opinions usually don't> amount to much more than the spiritually correct, sanctimonious platitudes> of the day.> Most of them are totally focused on the events and forms that occur in the> realm of time; almost none are concerned with the changeless, that in which> the events and forms occur. And when did you last read a post that looks at> this world, and the people of the world, including the letter-writer, as> characters and props in a dream in the universal mind?> > Love> > Warwick/join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Thank you sam I had a very hearty laughter that, as we all know, is a very deep spiritual experience, sometimes we forget "be like a child again" so beautiful to be a child again as we are before the Mother as we are before the Guru as we are before of the Self awe, awe, awe to Myself !! and blah,blah blah the mantra of the Bla awed (Beloved?) - Sam Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:12 PM Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah Oh Harsha.. Why do you tempt us so? It is so difficult to resist. I will count to ten. No sorry, it didn't work. Blah.. stop it hands... blah... I am so sorry.. I am not responsible for sam's actions.. he thinks he has a sense of humor.. forgive him please.. blah.. Lots of love Harsha.. thanks for the laugh and the temptation... :-)..Sam - harshaimtm Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:23 PM My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah Dear Friends in the Sangha:About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer and posted one of my first of many (wisdom filled :-) messages to a list that I belonged to.A few minutes later, in response to the message, I received a private reply. It simply said, "Blah, Blah, Blah." Evidently my insights were simply "Blah, Blah, Blah" to this gentleman. I did not respond to him but posted another "inspirational" message on the same list. Again, his private reply came to me, "Blah, Blah, and More Blah!"I remembered it this morning and had to smile.When the Blah, Blah, Blah of life overtakes us, may we nourish each other in the spirit of love and healing.Hey, here is looking at you kid! :-).Lots of loveHarsha/join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma /join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Another hearty laughter, thank you Vicki. Dear Harsha you should post more often posts like this, thank you for so much fun in love marifa - "skiplaurel" <vicki <> Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:47 PM Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah > , "harshaimtm" wrote: > > Dear Friends in the Sangha: > > > > About 7 years ago I was sitting on my computer > > Dear Harsha, > > You shouldn't be sitting on your computer :-) > > Love, Vicki > > > > > > > > > /join > > > > > > "Love itself is the actual form of God." > > Sri Ramana > > In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma > Links > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Hey Harsha old son, great to see you are cruising out past the suffocating limits of rationality. Only the brave and the beautiful bypass completely the corrupt cul-de-sacs of logic and formalism, the formaldehyde of which keeps the long dead rituals stumbling through the libraries and schools of pseudo spirituality, while all the while youth dances free, no dance ever the same as any other, no authority able to do more than spray poison on the timid, because the indefinable and uncontrollable forces of life obey no laws but the imperative of constant change, renewal, death and rebirth. Any angle that can be categorized or defined is already dead. Everything in the museum is dead. All the Shastras are dead. All the aphorisms of all the dead gurus are mumbo-jumbo in the mouths of zombies. All the histories are gatherings of ghosts. All the brotherhoods of worshippers of dead gurus are corpses venerating corpses. All form is created and destroyed now. All pasts are brought into existence now and consumed by the fires of forgetfulness now. Rapture lives in the space between failed expectations and the onrush of unnameable unformed primeval forces. No rapture can ever be repeated. No ecstasy can ever be prolonged. Having given up all form and name, form and name dance in ever more rapturous combinations of aesthetic and ecstatic complexity, always surrendering all to annihilation while being borne aloft by spontaneous reintegration, there being no annihilator and no organizer. No beauty can ever be maintained, no beauty can ever be lost, for any beauty is all beauty, and all beauty is a pale reflection of, and pointer to, the indescribable one, which is without form and change, but which is never not being perfectly described and adored and understood, nor is ever separate from the greatest atrocity or the most sublime love. Don't get caught up in an endless repetition of blah-jobs. Remember Monica Lewinsky. You don't have either the charisma or smarts of Bill Clinton; blah-jobs will sink you. I send you every nuance of love Love that mocks all definitions expectations and judgments, Sri Warwickji - Emanuele De Benedetti Friday, April 16, 2004 8:11 PM Re: Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah Another hearty laughter,thank you Vicki.Dear Harsha you should post more often posts like this,thank you for so much funin lovemarifa-"skiplaurel" <vicki (AT) bobwoodyard (DOT) com><>Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:47 PM Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah>>> /join>> >> >> "Love itself is the actual form of God.">> Sri Ramana>> In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma> Links>>>>>>/join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Thanks. Well said, here and there. Love, Harsha Warwick Wakefield [formandsubstance (AT) tpg (DOT) com.au] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 7:17 AMTo: Subject: Re: Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah Hey Harsha old son, great to see you are cruising out past the suffocating limits of rationality. Only the brave and the beautiful bypass completely the corrupt cul-de-sacs of logic and formalism, the formaldehyde of which keeps the long dead rituals stumbling through the libraries and schools of pseudo spirituality, while all the while youth dances free, no dance ever the same as any other, no authority able to do more than spray poison on the timid, because the indefinable and uncontrollable forces of life obey no laws but the imperative of constant change, renewal, death and rebirth. Any angle that can be categorized or defined is already dead. Everything in the museum is dead. All the Shastras are dead. All the aphorisms of all the dead gurus are mumbo-jumbo in the mouths of zombies. All the histories are gatherings of ghosts. All the brotherhoods of worshippers of dead gurus are corpses venerating corpses. All form is created and destroyed now. All pasts are brought into existence now and consumed by the fires of forgetfulness now. Rapture lives in the space between failed expectations and the onrush of unnameable unformed primeval forces. No rapture can ever be repeated. No ecstasy can ever be prolonged. Having given up all form and name, form and name dance in ever more rapturous combinations of aesthetic and ecstatic complexity, always surrendering all to annihilation while being borne aloft by spontaneous reintegration, there being no annihilator and no organizer. No beauty can ever be maintained, no beauty can ever be lost, for any beauty is all beauty, and all beauty is a pale reflection of, and pointer to, the indescribable one, which is without form and change, but which is never not being perfectly described and adored and understood, nor is ever separate from the greatest atrocity or the most sublime love. Don't get caught up in an endless repetition of blah-jobs. Remember Monica Lewinsky. You don't have either the charisma or smarts of Bill Clinton; blah-jobs will sink you. I send you every nuance of love Love that mocks all definitions expectations and judgments, Sri Warwickji - Emanuele De Benedetti Friday, April 16, 2004 8:11 PM Re: Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah Another hearty laughter,thank you Vicki.Dear Harsha you should post more often posts like this,thank you for so much funin lovemarifa-"skiplaurel" <vicki (AT) bobwoodyard (DOT) com><>Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:47 PM Re: My Wisdom and Your Blah, Blah, Blah>>> /join>> >> >> "Love itself is the actual form of God.">> Sri Ramana>> In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma> Links>>>>>>/join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma /join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Dear Harsha, the stream of consciousness stuff was just a spoof. It had no serious intent at all. To use the words of the Bard, it was "sound and fury signifying nothing." I had been working very hard all day and it was a way of letting off steam. I think, now, it was inappropriate, and I apologize. I thought it would be obvious that it was nothing more than a spoof, if for no other reason than that I signed myself Sri Warwickji. My previous note, on the other hand, the one that you asked me to explain, was very well considered. Cheers Warwick Thanks.Well said, here and there.Love,Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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