Jousting with imaginary self-appointed gurus / Jessica

[Guest guest]

Jessica --

 

'Round and round and round.

 

Jousting with your imaginary self-appointed gurus.

 

Who's going to win the contest to be validated?

 

Does anybody care?

 

You say below that the void knocking on

your door is why you bothered to post to me -

but that's not the point you've been addressing

with me.

 

When you read what you wrote, do you hear yourself

addressing that point, which is why you said

you bothered to write?

 

Or do you see confrontive personalized words and attitude,

as if this is a contest for one to be validated

by another being invalidated?

 

This just plays out a pattern that says: I perceive

you invalidating me, so I'm going to invalidate you.

I'll be sarcastic, and pretend I'm not upset, just

amazed and ROFL, and I'll be the one who ends up

one-up.

 

Honestly, Jessica, truth has no one in it, who can

be one-up. No one survives here. There's nothing

to prove, no one to prove it to.

 

Truth isn't about you being

validated, or me being validated. It's not

going to make itself available because someone lashes

out at imagined adversaries.

 

-- Dan

 

Nisargadatta , " Jessica White " <ellam-

ondre@c...> wrote:

> >

> > You sound upset by our exchange.

>

> I'm not upset by our exchange, just astonished!

> the Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde of Advaita... Clear and insightful one

time, and

> slippery as a snake when it comes to being honest the next! you're

a

> psychologist too! wow! lol! spinning words to your advantage.

Interesting!

>

> > But, how does this little exchange compare with

> > losing the entire set of identities and associations

> > that formed me, my experiences, and my world?

> >

> > Nice-sounding quotes and happy, beaming teachers are

> > great.

> >

> > But what happens when the void comes knock, knock, knocking,

> > asking for everything you have taken as you and your

> > sense of reality?

>

> That's the whole point of my bothering to write to you...Dan. You

haven't a

> friggin clue where I've been, what I've been through...and who

gives a shit!

>

> but as I told Judi, " Oh God, how I love self-appointed gurus! "

>

>

> >

> > Hello, candy-gram :-)

> >

> > -- Dan

>

> Hello Sri Rumpoche! :-)