What are we doing here?

[Guest guest]

This is a new forum. Before the net, if you decided

to become a seeker, you'd have to go to a teacher, or

read on your own. Here, we have a new opportunity open

to us- 'the group search.' We discuss, we lecture, we

encourage, we attack, we polish each other sometimes

gently, sometimes roughly, like pebbles tossing about

in the surf.

 

Hur, Sultan and Hovila have the wisdom to let it

happen unimpeded. Other moderators try to play

referee.

In my opinion, unless things get really offensive

and destructive this is a mistake. Those of us who

think they have a view point to share need to have

those view points challenged if we are to sort

out personal opinions from facts. Aggression is

part of reality, to create an artificial ahimsa

list is just another way to perpetuate self-delusion.

 

It's too early to tell whether these forums will

produce more enlightened people that the old teacher

student relationship. I think that in the end some

of these lists will become themselves a communal

cyber-super-guru, in a way superior, to any flesh and

blood one.

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , pete seesaw <seesaw1us>

wrote:

 

 

This is a new forum. Before the net, if you decided

to become a seeker, you'd have to go to a teacher, or

read on your own. Here, we have a new opportunity open

to us- 'the group search.' We discuss, we lecture, we

encourage, we attack, we polish each other sometimes

gently, sometimes roughly, like pebbles tossing about

in the surf.

 

Hur, Sultan and Hovila have the wisdom to let it

happen unimpeded. Other moderators try to play

referee.

In my opinion, unless things get really offensive

and destructive this is a mistake. Those of us who

think they have a view point to share need to have

those view points challenged if we are to sort

out personal opinions from facts. Aggression is

part of reality, to create an artificial ahimsa

list is just another way to perpetuate self-delusion.

 

It's too early to tell whether these forums will

produce more enlightened people that the old teacher

student relationship. I think that in the end some

of these lists will become themselves a communal

cyber-super-guru, in a way superior, to any flesh and

blood one.

 

 

 

 

KKT: One can use the interactions

as a kind of mirror to see oneself

more clearly.