the courtesy saga (batch 2)

[Guest guest]

Dear eric,

i hear perfectly what you mean by " stillness " but in your absolute

definition i think you missed the didactic value of my approach;

maybe you should learn to speak as adapted to your listener and not

to a pure definition that stand monolithically in your mind to be

enounced for your pleasure only ;-)

my stillness is a methodology rather than an exercise of style (now

Pete aren't you a bit sarcastic here?)

my stillness describes how, starting from where you are, you can

progressively find in the experimental world traces of the noumenal;

i didn't say search stillness as if it was an object located in a

place but rather be yourself a stillness detector, a stillness

captor, a hunter of quietness;

thus stillness as a vichara quality rather than an end in itself

thus when finally stillness sets in, ...stillness must stop

yours amicably

Pete

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " pete " <vertvetiver> wrote:

> Dear eric,

> i hear perfectly what you mean by " stillness " but in your absolute

> definition i think you missed the didactic value of my approach;

> maybe you should learn to speak as adapted to your listener and not

> to a pure definition that stand monolithically in your mind to be

> enounced for your pleasure only ;-)

> my stillness is a methodology rather than an exercise of style (now

> Pete aren't you a bit sarcastic here?)

> my stillness describes how, starting from where you are, you can

> progressively find in the experimental world traces of the

noumenal;

> i didn't say search stillness as if it was an object located in a

> place but rather be yourself a stillness detector, a stillness

> captor, a hunter of quietness;

> thus stillness as a vichara quality rather than an end in itself

> thus when finally stillness sets in, ...stillness must stop

> yours amicably

> Pete

 

dear Pete,

you are the Pete i have always known, patient and kind with the

ignoramuses.

(and i don't think you were being sarcastic)

i'll be more cautious next time i want to enter a debate with you

thanks a bunch.

may your stillness be increased a thousand times, in this world and

the noumenal one

eric